List of ghost towns in South Dakota

This is an incomplete list of ghost towns in South Dakota, United States of America.

“This was Brownsville; half a mile E, down Elk Creek in 1883, was the Hood & Scott lumber Mill near rails end at Allerton.

The boarding house at Mill burnt down on 10–11 March and dying in the fire were: Albert Tunnicliff, Raisha C. Rice, James Chalmers, Samuel Haines, Fred D. Peters, Thomas Finless, Charles Hammontree, Peter and Louis Hanson, Harvey Wood and W.H.

Longitude: -100.3059646 Found information on Gopher, in "WPA South Dakota Place Names" (1941) - at the time of publication, the town population was 13 and still had a post maintained there.

A post office in Marshall county, 20 miles (32.2 km) west of Sisseton, the nearest railroad point.

A post office in Pennington county, 30 miles (48.3 km) northwest of Hill City, the nearest railroad point.

The founders of the town of Minnesela standing on the balcony of the Minnesela Hotel in 1889.
Rockerville in 2006.
photo taken circa 1890
The former site of East Sioux Falls in 2009.
Storage building in Igloo , photographed in 2008.
Aerial view of Manchester after the tornado outbreak that destroyed the town in 2003.
rebuilt buildings at the site
Photo taken 2008