List of cemeteries in South Dakota

This list of cemeteries in South Dakota includes notable examples of currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), defunct (abandoned or removed) cemeteries, churchyards, columbaria, mausolea, and other formal burial grounds. Several cemeteries of historic and/or architectural value are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). It does not include pet cemeteries. This list is sorted by county.

Bennett

• Wounded Knee Cemetery; mass grave from the Wounded Knee Massacre

Butte

• Snoma Finnish Cemetery; NRHP-listed

Clark

• Bluff View Cemetery, Vermillion; chapel is NRHP-listed

Codington

• Mount Hope Cemetery, Aberdeen; mausoleum is NRHP-listed

Fall River

• Hot Springs National Cemetery, Hot Springs

Gregory

• St. John's Catholic Church and Cemetery, Dallas; NRHP-listed

Harding

• Emmanuel Lutheran Church and Cemetery; NRHP-listed
• Peace Valley Evangelical Church and Cemetery

Kingsbury

• De Smet Cemetery, De Smet; burial place of several members of the Charles Ingalls family

Lawrence

• Mount Moriah Cemetery, Deadwood; burial place of multiple Wild West figures, including Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, and Seth Bullock

Lincoln

• Canton Asylum for American Indians Cemetery, Canton; NRHP-listed

Lyman

• Messiah Episcopal Church Cemetery, Lower Brule Indian Reservation; contains Iron Nation's Gravesite, NRHP-listed

Meade

• Black Hills National Cemetery, Sturgis; NRHP-listed
• Fort Meade National Cemetery, Sturgis

Mellette

• Sicangu Akicita Owicahe Tribal Veterans Cemetery, White River

Minnehaha

• Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Sioux Falls; site of NRHP-listed Josephine Martin Glidden Memorial Chapel
• South Dakota Veterans Cemetery, Sioux Falls
• Woodlawn Cemetery

Moody

• First Presbyterian Church and Cemetery, Flandreau; NRHP-listed

Oglala Lakota

• Akicita Owicahe Lakota Freedom Veterans Cemetery, Kyle

Perkins

• Duck Creek Lutheran Church and Cemetery, NRHP-listed

Roberts

• Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate Veterans Cemetery, Sisseton

Union

• Saint John Cemetery, Beresford
• St. Paul Lutheran Church and Cemetery, Richland; NRHP-listed

See also

• List of cemeteries in the United States

References

External links

• South Dakota national cemeteries, National Cemetery Administration
• South Dakota State Historical Society's pre-1940 historical cemetery record search
• South Dakota Gravestone Photo Project