Union County, South Dakota, United States

Details for Union County

Name

Union County

Place Type

County

Located in

South Dakota, United States

County Seat

Elk Point

Coordinates

Latitude		42.8166622		42° 48' 60" N
Longitude		-96.6947600		96° 41' 41.1" W

Population

10,189

Elevation

358 m

Surrounding Counties

Sioux (Iowa) E
Plymouth (Iowa) E
Woodbury (Iowa) SE
Dakota (Nebraska) S
Dixon (Nebraska) S
Clay NW
Lincoln N

USGS GNIS FeatureID

1265763

Histopolis Place ID

791800913

Updated Oct 17, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Union County

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

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=2421 (2 Sep 2009)

Union County, South Dakota SD, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Union 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=13001 (23 Nov 2008)

County SDGENWEB Archives [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/sd/union/union.html (17 Jan 2010)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > South Dakota > Union County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > South Dakota > Union County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/SD/Union/ (23 Dec 2009)

Cemeteries in or near Union County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=13001&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (16 Jan 2009)

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

Union County, South Dakota Cemetery Records [Interment.net]
Cemetery records of Union County, South Dakota
http://www.interment.net/us/sd/union.htm (16 May 2010)

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=63 (2 Dec 2010)

The Political Graveyard: Union 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/UN.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

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Surveys in Union County

1 Survey, 3 Ranges, 13 Townships

The Fifth Principal Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Union County. You can navigate to any of the 13 survey townships that overlap Union County using the navigation tool below.

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Townships, Unorganized Territories and Cities of Union County

12 Townships, 1 Unorganized Territory, 5 Cities (Township is assumed unless noted)

Alcester	Alcester (city)	Beresford (city)	Big Sioux
Big Springs	Brule	Civil Bend	Elk Point
Elk Point (city)	Emmet	Jefferson	Jefferson (city)
North Sioux (city)	Prairie	Richland (u.t.)	Sioux Valley
Spink	Virginia

Cities of Union County

5 Cities, 13 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Alcester (city)	Beresford (city)	Big Springs	Dakota Dunes
Elk Point (city)	Emmet	Hill Side	Hoffmans Trailer Court
Ionia (historical u.p.)	Jefferson (city)	Junction City	McCook Lake
McKays Trailer Court	Midway	Nora	North Sioux (city)
Richland	Spink

Cemeteries of Union County

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

Beresford	Civil Bend	Erickson	Gothland
Mount Hope	Mt. Hope (*)	Nora	Old Big Springs
Old Brule Creek	Peace	Pleasant Hill	Pleasant Valley
Richland	Saint Johns	Saint Joseph	Saint Paul
St. Johns (*)	St. Joseph (*)	St. Paul (*)	Union County

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