Brookings County, South Dakota, United States

Details for Brookings County

Name

Brookings County

Place Type

County

Located in

South Dakota, United States

County Seat

Brookings

Coordinates

Latitude		44.3083018		44° 18' 29.9" N
Longitude		-96.8169994		96° 49' 01.2" W

Population

25,207

Elevation

491 m

Surrounding Counties

Deuel N
Lincoln (Minnesota) E
Pipestone (Minnesota) SE
Moody SE
Lake SW
Kingsbury W
Hamlin NW

USGS GNIS FeatureID

1265779

Histopolis Place ID

371357410

Updated Sep 3, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Brookings County

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

Cemeteries in or near Brookings County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=12776&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (20 Dec 2007)

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

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=5 (4 May 2011)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > South Dakota > Brookings County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > South Dakota > Brookings County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/SD/Brookings/ (26 Dec 2009)

Brookings County SDGENWEB Archives [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/sd/brookings/brookings.html (19 Jan 2010)

The Political Graveyard: Brookings 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/BO.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=2363 (30 Aug 2009)

Brookings County, South Dakota SD, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Brookings 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=12776 (22 Nov 2008)

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Surveys in Brookings County

1 Survey, 6 Ranges, 23 Townships

The Fifth Principal Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Brookings County. You can navigate to any of the 23 survey townships that overlap Brookings County using the navigation tool below.

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Townships, Cities and Towns of Brookings County

23 Townships, 5 Cities, 3 Towns (Township is assumed unless noted)

Afton	Alton	Argo	Aurora
Aurora (town)	Bangor	Brookings	Brookings (city)
Bruce (city)	Bushnell (town)	Elkton	Elkton (city)
Eureka	Lake Hendricks	Lake Sinai	Laketon
Medary	Oak Lake	Oakwood	Oslo
Parnell	Preston	Richland	Sherman
Sinai (town)	Sterling	Trenton	Volga
Volga (city)	White (city)	Winsor

Cities of Brookings County

6 Cities, 3 Towns, 8 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Ahnberg	Arlington (city)	Arlington Beach	Aurora (town)
Brookings (city)	Bruce (city)	Bushnell (town)	Elkton (city)
Hillside Colony	Medary	North Grove Addition	Sheldon Trailor Town
Sinai (town)	Sundahl Trailer Court	Sunnyview	Volga (city)
White (city)

Cemeteries of Brookings County

26 Cemeteries, 4 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Arlington	Bangor	Bethania	Bethel
Bruce	Calvary	Deer Creek	East Sinai
Fair View	Fairlawn	First Lutheran	Fountain
Greenwood	Hillside	Lake Campbell	Lutheran
Oakwood Zion	Saint Johns	Saint Marys	Saint Pauls
Saint Petri	Sinai	St. Johns (*)	St. Marys (*)
St. Pauls (*)	St. Petri (*)	Trasta	Trinity (Elkton Township)
Trinity (Volga Township)	Trulock

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