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South Dakota County High Points

Rank	County	Peak	Elev-Ft	Range (Level 5)	Prom-Ft	Ascents
47.	Bon Homme	Bon Homme County High Point	1900	East Central Dakota Plains	353	14
47.	Hutchinson	Hutchinson County High Point	1900	East Central Dakota Plains	15	16
49.	Kingsbury	Kingsbury County High Point	1890	Sioux River Upland	85	5
50.	Beadle	Beadle County High Point	1880	East Central Dakota Plains	50	6
51.	Lake	Lake County High Point	1870	Sioux River Upland	178	5
51.	McCook	McCook County High Point	1870	Sioux River Upland	125	16
53.	Minnehaha	Minnehaha County High Point	1820	Sioux River Upland	55	23
54.	Douglas	Douglas County High Point	1800	East Central Dakota Plains	0	17
54.	Miner	Miner County High Point	1800	Sioux River Upland	85	5
56.	Moody	Moody County High Point	1780	Sioux River Upland	50	7
57.	Turner	Turner County High Point	1740	Sioux River Upland	298	8
58.	Davison	Davison County High Point	1695	East Central Dakota Plains	111	6
59.	Yankton	Yankton County High Point	1680	Sioux River Upland	50	7
60.	Lincoln	Lincoln County High Point	1565	Sioux River Upland	250	6
61.	Union	Union County High Point	1540	Sioux River Upland	50	10
62.	Brown	Brown County High Point	1525	East Central Dakota Plains	28	6
63.	Clay	Clay County High Point	1500	Sioux River Upland	150	9
64.	Spink	Bald Mountain	1480	East Central Dakota Plains	155	6
65.	Hanson	Hanson County High Point	1425	Sioux River Upland	8	6
66.	Sanborn	Sanborn County High Point	1370	Sioux River Upland	0	5
	Sanborn	or Pony Hills	1375	East Central Dakota Plains		2
1.	Pennington	Black Elk Peak	7231	Southern Black Hills	2911	1118
2.	Lawrence	Crooks Tower	7137	Northern Black Hills	517	65
3.	Custer	Sylvan Hill	7000	Southern Black Hills	763	64
4.	Meade	Meade County High Point	5460	Northern Black Hills	160	32
5.	Fall River	Parker Peak	4848	Southern Black Hills	683	23
6.	Butte	The Brakes	4040	Bear Lodge Mountains	240	13
7.	Harding	Harding Peak	4019	West-Central Dakota Plains	619	12
	Harding	or East Short Pine Hills	4000	West-Central Dakota Plains	580	5
8.	Oglala Lakota	Bell Benchmark	3718	Niobara-Missouri-Black Hills Plains	303	22
9.	Bennett	Bennett County High Point	3638	Niobara-Missouri-Black Hills Plains	103	6
10.	Jackson	Jackson County High Point	3478	Niobara-Missouri-Black Hills Plains	17	11
11.	Todd	Todd County High Point	3309	Niobara-Missouri-Black Hills Plains	0	6
12.	Perkins	Perkins County High Point	3166	West-Central Dakota Plains	91	10
13.	Haakon	Haakon County High Point	2830	Niobara-Missouri-Black Hills Plains	155	19
14.	Mellette	Mellette County High Point	2820	Niobara-Missouri-Black Hills Plains	40	7
15.	Ziebach	Ziebach County High Point	2730	West-Central Dakota Plains	202	5
	Ziebach	or Thunder Butte	2723	West-Central Dakota Plains	287	4
16.	Corson	Thunder Hawk Butte	2710	West-Central Dakota Plains	110	12
17.	Tripp	Tripp County High Point	2644	Niobara-Missouri-Black Hills Plains	94	5
18.	Jones	White Clay Butte	2516	Niobara-Missouri-Black Hills Plains	231	27
19.	Dewey	Lantry Benchmark	2461	West-Central Dakota Plains	46	8
20.	Stanley	Stanley County High Point	2382	Niobara-Missouri-Black Hills Plains	209	7
21.	Gregory	Gregory County High Point	2360	Niobara-Missouri-Black Hills Plains	70	5
22.	Lyman	Medicine Benchmark	2262	Niobara-Missouri-Black Hills Plains	497	32
23.	Walworth	Walworth County High Point	2230	East Central Dakota Plains	385	7
24.	Potter	Potter County High Point	2220	East Central Dakota Plains	315	7
25.	Hyde	Hyde County High Point	2200	East Central Dakota Plains	490	6
26.	Hand	Rocky Benchmark	2197	East Central Dakota Plains	232	5
27.	McPherson	McPherson County High Point	2180	East Central Dakota Plains	60	5
28.	Roberts	Roberts County High Point	2135	Sioux River Upland	838	19
29.	Campbell	Campbell County High Point	2130	East Central Dakota Plains	405	6
30.	Charles Mix	Charles Mix County High Point	2128	East Central Dakota Plains	441	6
31.	Edmunds	Edmunds County High Point	2110	East Central Dakota Plains	50	6
32.	Brule	Bijou Hills	2100	East Central Dakota Plains	270	14
33.	Sully	Sully Buttes	2083	East Central Dakota Plains	226	8
34.	Marshall	Marshall County High Point	2080	Sioux River Upland	120	6
34.	Codington	Punished Womans Mound	2080	Sioux River Upland	160	12
36.	Grant	Grant County High Point	2060	Sioux River Upland	90	11
36.	Jerauld	Jerauld County High Point	2060	East Central Dakota Plains	260	6
38.	Hughes	Hughes County High Point	2050	East Central Dakota Plains	45	9
39.	Day	Day County High Point	2040	Sioux River Upland	0	6
39.	Deuel	Deuel County High Point	2040	Sioux River Upland	170	8
41.	Faulk	Waters Hill	2035	East Central Dakota Plains	180	8
42.	Buffalo	Eden Benchmark	2020	East Central Dakota Plains	40	6
43.	Aurora	Aurora County High Point	2001	East Central Dakota Plains	222	12
44.	Brookings	Brookings County High Point	1990	Sioux River Upland	15	8
45.	Hamlin	Hamlin County High Point	1950	Sioux River Upland	5	8
46.	Clark	Clark County High Point	1930	Sioux River Upland	160	5

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List Description

Note that this list is not authoritative and it is present here mainly so climbers can log their ascents. If you are serious about county highpointing in South Dakota, then you should visit the County Highpointing Web Site, join the Yahoo County Highpointing Group, and refer to Andy Martin's book for the definitive listing of all the points.

Acknowledgments

Sources that were used to help me compile this list include:

Book County High Points by Andy Martin; list compiled 1994 by David Olson, limited review by Andy Martin.
Some latitude-longitude values for peaks provided by Tom Dunigan via the CoHP.org web site, and manually verified.

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