Historic newspapers · South Dakota

South Dakota historic newspapers: 49,155 free digitised pages

Name: South Dakota historic newspapers (Chronicling America)
Creator: Library of Congress
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Everything below is what the Library of Congress holds online for South Dakota in Chronicling America, counted on 2026-10-06. The pages are free to read and searchable by name; an obituary or a marriage notice here is often the only record of a date before civil registration.

Titles with the most digitised pages

Newspaper	Years	Pages online
The Madison Daily Leader (Madison, S.D.)		9,826
Press and Daily Dakotaian (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.])	1880–1889	2,700
Turner County Herald (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.])		1,819
Custer Weekly Chronicle (Custer City, S.D.)	1890–1931	1,762
The Herald-Advance (Milbank, S.D.)	1890–1922	1,671
The Mitchell Capital (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.])	1879–1918	1,668
Reporter and Farmer (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-		1,464
Union County Courier (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-		1,448
Daily Press and Dakotaian (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.])	1875–1880	1,310
Dakota Farmers' Leader (Canton, S.D.)		1,280

Counties

Lake 9,826 pages
Yankton 4,176 pages
Custer 2,250 pages
Grant 2,202 pages
Hand 2,148 pages
Brookings 2,121 pages
Davison 1,921 pages
Bon Homme 1,829 pages
Turner 1,819 pages
Lincoln 1,790 pages

Cities

Madison 9,826 pages
Yankton 4,176 pages
Custer 2,250 pages
Miller 2,148 pages
Brookings 2,121 pages
Milbank 2,032 pages
Mitchell 1,921 pages
Hurley 1,819 pages
Canton 1,790 pages
Webster 1,464 pages

By decade

1730 to 1739 4 pages
1740 to 1749 4 pages
1750 to 1759 4 pages
1760 to 1769 4 pages
1770 to 1779 4 pages
1780 to 1789 4 pages
1790 to 1799 4 pages
1800 to 1809 9 pages
1810 to 1819 9 pages
1820 to 1829 9 pages
1830 to 1839 9 pages
1840 to 1849 9 pages
1850 to 1859 9 pages
1860 to 1869 9 pages
1870 to 1879 1,700 pages
1880 to 1889 7,640 pages
1890 to 1899 10,489 pages
1900 to 1909 13,591 pages
1910 to 1919 13,528 pages
1920 to 1929 2,344 pages
1930 to 1939 26 pages
1940 to 1949 25 pages
1950 to 1959 24 pages
1960 to 1969 24 pages

Languages

English 47,904 pages
German 4,560 pages
Czech 902 pages
Norwegian 488 pages
Dakota 130 pages

Ethnic press: German, Czech, Norwegian, Indians of North America

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