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Blank Map of South Dakota (Counties)

Printable map of South Dakota with all 66 counties, in four versions — blank, labeled, colored and with cities. Download as SVG, PNG or PDF. Public-domain data, no watermark.

Blank map of South Dakota

Outlines only — no labels, no fill.

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South Dakota at a glance

Counties on the map66
Land area (sum of the shapes)196,339 km² · 75,807 mi²
Largest county by land areaMeade County — 8,990 km²
Smallest county by land areaClay County — 1,067 km²
Population (ACS 2019–2023)899,194
Most populous countyMinnehaha County — 200,689
Places on the with-cities versionSioux Falls, Rapid City, Aberdeen, Brookings, Watertown, Mitchell, Yankton, Huron, Pierre, Spearfish

Land areas are the Census Bureau's ALAND figures. Population and income are American Community Survey 5-year estimates, which carry margins of error. Cities are the largest Census places by ACS population; a crowded label is left off rather than overlapped.

All 66 counties of South Dakota

CountyLand area, km²Land area, mi²PopulationMedian household income
Aurora County1,8357082,573$74,130
Beadle County3,2601,25919,279$63,082
Bennett County3,0681,1853,354$44,569
Bon Homme County1,4605647,024$61,275
Brookings County2,05279234,968$67,341
Brown County4,4371,71338,079$70,239
Brule County2,1178175,261$74,043
Buffalo County1,2214711,757$47,000
Butte County5,8272,25010,538$67,692
Campbell County1,9007341,481$65,000
Charles Mix County2,8421,0979,281$64,850
Clark County2,4809583,876$62,885
Clay County1,06741215,133$58,794
Codington County1,78168828,556$65,080
Corson County6,3962,4703,859$43,750
Custer County4,0321,5578,686$81,958
Davison County1,12843619,936$61,401
Day County2,6641,0295,460$62,270
Deuel County1,6136234,318$79,556
Dewey County5,9632,3025,230$57,928
Douglas County1,1184322,823$78,125
Edmunds County2,9161,1264,033$77,266
Fall River County4,5061,7407,179$61,056
Faulk County2,5439822,137$58,000
Grant County1,7656817,544$73,818
Gregory County2,6291,0153,993$52,432
Haakon County4,6891,8101,708$59,231
Hamlin County1,3135076,288$83,194
Hand County3,7211,4373,045$72,054
Hanson County1,1264353,473$86,375
Harding County6,9192,6711,092$74,766
Hughes County1,92174217,732$78,981
Hutchinson County2,1068137,393$74,459
Hyde County2,2298611,305$74,279
Jackson County4,8271,8642,826$26,686
Jerauld County1,3635261,845$75,417
Jones County2,5119701,030$64,688
Kingsbury County2,1558325,210$70,221
Lake County1,45856311,052$73,792
Lawrence County2,07280026,574$66,766
Lincoln County1,49557768,286$96,552
Lyman County4,2531,6423,717$61,169
Marshall County2,1718384,355$72,500
McCook County1,4875745,732$80,847
McPherson County2,9441,1372,278$62,024
Meade County8,9903,47130,297$74,161
Mellette County3,3861,3072,043$51,364
Miner County1,4775702,299$72,589
Minnehaha County2,090807200,689$76,074
Moody County1,3455196,371$77,500
Oglala Lakota County5,4222,09313,587$34,769
Pennington County7,1922,777112,081$70,768
Perkins County7,4342,8703,058$65,455
Potter County2,2308612,430$71,726
Roberts County2,8521,10110,219$63,691
Sanborn County1,4745692,370$69,870
Spink County3,8941,5036,283$73,011
Stanley County3,7411,4443,012$77,000
Sully County2,6071,0071,481$70,250
Todd County3,5961,3889,293$39,148
Tripp County4,1761,6125,607$58,854
Turner County1,5986178,772$75,283
Union County1,19346116,916$84,137
Walworth County1,8327075,298$62,722
Yankton County1,35052123,379$73,855
Ziebach County5,0801,9612,410$47,333

Printing and using the map

  1. Pick a version with the tabs above the map. Blank is outlines only; Labeled names each county.
  2. For paper, choose PDF and your page size. Wide maps are placed on a landscape page automatically.
  3. Print at 100% or “Fit to page”. The PDF already leaves a half-inch margin.
  4. For slides or documents, a 1,200 or 2,400 px PNG is enough. For a poster, use the 4,800 px PNG or the SVG.
  5. To colour counties by your own data, open the SVG in a design program: each county is a separate path carrying its name.

About the boundaries

The county shapes are the US Census Bureau's 2024 cartographic boundary file — boundaries as of January 1, 2024, clipped to the shoreline for mapping.

The map uses an equal-area projection (Lambert azimuthal equal-area, centred on the map), so counties keep their true relative sizes. It is simplified to about the detail visible at 2400 × 1502 pixels, and coloured so that no two touching counties share a colour. The colours carry no meaning.

Limits: shorelines and small islands are generalised, very small counties may be hard to see at letter size, and the map shows administrative divisions only — no rivers, roads or terrain. It is for teaching, illustration and planning, not for legal, survey or navigation use.

Sources

Source files downloaded October 18, 2026.

Frequently asked questions

How many counties are on this map of South Dakota?

66. every one of them is listed in the table on this page.

Can I use these maps for free, including commercially?

Yes. The maps are drawn from public-domain boundary data (US Census Bureau) and this site adds no restrictions: use them in worksheets, slides, videos, products and print without attribution.

Which file should I download for printing?

The PDF, sized for your paper. It holds a 200 dpi image scaled to fit inside a half-inch margin and turns landscape automatically for wide maps. The SVG is vector and prints sharp at any size from a design program.

Do the four versions line up with each other?

Yes. The labeled, colored and with-cities versions are the blank SVG with labels, fills or city markers added on top, so the borders are identical. Print the blank one as a quiz and the labeled one as the answer key.

Why are some labels shortened?

Labels are sized to fit inside each county. Where a name cannot fit even at the smallest readable size it is shortened with an ellipsis or replaced by its abbreviation. The full names are in the table below the map.

How accurate are the borders?

They come from the Census Bureau's 2024 cartographic boundary file, generalised for mapping, then simplified to suit a 2400 × 1502 pixel drawing. They are right for printing and teaching but are not survey-grade lines and must not be used to settle a boundary question.

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