Aurora County, South Dakota, United States

Details for Aurora County

Name

Aurora County

Place Type

County

Located in

South Dakota, United States

County Seat

Plankinton

Coordinates

Latitude		43.7194363		43° 43' 10" N
Longitude		-98.5586977		98° 33' 31.3" W

Population

3,135

Elevation

474 m

Surrounding Counties

Sanborn NE
Davison E
Douglas S
Charles Mix S
Brule W
Jerauld N

USGS GNIS FeatureID

1266983

Histopolis Place ID

683514455

Updated Apr 16, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Aurora County

8 Resources; Select a Cemetery below for additional resources specific to that Cemetery.

Aurora County SDGENWEB Archives [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/sd/aurora/aurora.html (5 Jan 2010)

The Political Graveyard: Aurora County, S.Dak. [The Political Graveyard]
A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 192,291 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present.
http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/AU.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > South Dakota > Aurora County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > South Dakota > Aurora County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/SD/Aurora/ (2 Jun 2010)

Aurora County, South Dakota - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_County,_South_Dakota

Cemeteries in or near Aurora County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=12753&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (20 Dec 2007)

South Dakota Gravestone Photo Project - Cemetery Index [South Dakota Gravestone Photos]
Research your South Dakota ancestors and family history by searching our online database of South Dakota gravestone photos. Locate South Dakota gravestone images of your descendants and discover your South Dakota roots.
http://southdakotagravestones.org/cemeteries.php?selected_cid=1 (2 Dec 2010)

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=2359 (1 Sep 2009)

Aurora County, South Dakota SD, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Aurora County, South Dakota SD, county profile, with sections on demographics, cemeteries, the economy, government, history and politics.
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=12753 (22 Nov 2008)

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Surveys in Aurora County

1 Survey, 6 Ranges, 29 Townships

The Fifth Principal Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Aurora County. You can navigate to any of the 29 survey townships that overlap Aurora County using the navigation tool below.

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Townships, Cities and Towns of Aurora County

20 Townships, 2 Cities, 1 Town (Township is assumed unless noted)

Aurora	Belford	Bristol	Center
Cooper	Crystal Lake	Dudley	Eureka
Firesteel	Gales	Hopper	Lake
Palatine	Patten	Plankinton	Plankinton (city)
Pleasant Lake	Pleasant Valley	Stickney (town)	Truro
Washington	White Lake	White Lake (city)

Cities of Aurora County

2 Cities, 1 Town, 2 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (City is assumed unless noted)

Aurora Center (u.p.)	Plankinton	Stickney (town)	Storla (u.p.)
White Lake

Cemeteries of Aurora County

14 Cemeteries, 5 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Aurora Center	Crystal Lake	Dudley	Knutson
Mizpah	Old Saint Paul	Old St. Paul (*)	Plankinton
Quaker	Saint Johns	Saint Johns Lutheran	Saint Mary
Saint Paul	Silver Ridge	St. Johns (*)	St. Johns Lutheran (*)
St. Mary (*)	St. Paul (*)	Trinity

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