Aberdeen, South Dakota Aberdeen, South Dakota Location in Brown County and the state of South Dakota Location in Brown County and the state of South Dakota Aberdeen, South Dakota is positioned in the US Aberdeen, South Dakota - Aberdeen, South Dakota State South Dakota Aberdeen (Lakota: Ablila) is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Brown County, South Dakota, United States, about 125 miles (201 km) northeast of Pierre.
The town/city population was 26,091 at the 2010 census, making it the third biggest city in the state.
Aberdeen is the principal town/city of the Aberdeen Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Brown and Edmunds counties and has a populace of 40,602 in 2010.
Aberdeen is considered a college town, being the home of both Northern State University and Presentation College.
Before Aberdeen or Brown County was inhabited by European settlers, it was inhabited by the Sioux Indians from approximately 1700 to 1879.
This group of pioneer was later joined by another group the following spring, and, eventually, more pioneer migrated toward this general area, presently known as Columbia, South Dakota.
1883 illustration of Aberdeen Aberdeen, like many suburbs of the Midwest, was assembled around the newly developing barns systems.
Aberdeen was first officially plotted as a town site on January 3, 1881, by Charles Prior, the superintendent of the Minneapolis office of the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St.
Mitchell, Charles Prior's boss, was responsible for the choice of town names, was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, after which the town of Aberdeen, South Dakota, was named. Aberdeen was officially established on July 6, 1881, the date of the first arrival of a Milwaukee Railroad train.
Aberdeen then directed under a town/city charter granted by the Territorial Legislature in March 1883. As Aberdeen grew, many businesses and buildings were constructed along Aberdeen's Main Street.
However, this soon became a lured due to Aberdeen's periodic flooding, which led to it being referred to as "The Town in the Frog Pond".
The engineers realized the previous flaws of the artesian well plan and soon added a gate valve to the well to control the flow of water, giving Aberdeen its first working waterworks. Aberdeen had four different barns companies with depots assembled in the newly developing town.
With these four barns s intersecting here, Aberdeen soon became known as the "Hub City of the Dakotas".
When looking down on Aberdeen from above, the barns tracks converging in Aberdeen resembled the spokes of a wheel converging at a hub, hence the name "Hub City of the Dakotas".
These four barns companies are the reason why Aberdeen was able to expanded and flourish as it did.
The only barns still running through Aberdeen is the Burlington Northern Santa Fe.
Labeled photograph of downtown Aberdeen, 1910.
On October 25, 1999, a Learjet 35 carrying golfing star Payne Stewart crashed in a field near Aberdeen.
Aberdeen is positioned in northeastern South Dakota, in the James River valley, approximately 11 miles (18 km) west of the river.
The James River enters northeastern South Dakota in Brown County, where it is dammed to form two reservoirs northeast of Aberdeen.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 15.60 square miles (40.40 km2), of which 15.50 square miles (40.14 km2) is territory and 0.10 square miles (0.26 km2) is water. Aberdeen has been assigned the ZIP code range 57401 57402. Aberdeen experiences a humid continental climate (Koppen Dfb/Dfa) influenced by its position far from moderating bodies of water.
Climate data for Aberdeen, South Dakota (Aberdeen Regional Airport), 1981 2010 normals The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration maintains a National Weather Service office in Aberdeen.
Their region of responsibility includes northern and easterly South Dakota and two counties in west-central Minnesota.
Aberdeen is the governmental center of county of Brown County.
When the time came for the barns s to purchase land, the increase in territory prices led them to change their decision and instead to route the rail lines through Aberdeen.
However, once Aberdeen became a town in 1881, there was a long-running controversy concerning which town would be the county seat, which continued until 1890, when it was declared by the newly formed South Dakota state constitution in 1889 that a majority vote could move the governmental center of county if the governmental center of county in question had originally been established by less than a majority vote.
The result of the vote declared that Aberdeen would be the governmental center of county once and for all, so all of the records were once again transferred to Aberdeen's courthouse; amid the battle for county seat, the records had been moved from Columbia's courthouse to Aberdeen's courthouse (which was assembled from 1886 to 1887), and back again to Columbia's in what seemed to be a never-ending cycle of the transferring of records.
Aberdeen's employers Aberdeen Public School District 650 The first Super 8, with 60 rooms, was opened in 1974 in Aberdeen and still operates today as the Super 8 Aberdeen East. The Aberdeen region has a several cultural organizations.
The Aberdeen Area Arts Council prints a small monthly newspaper, ARTi - FACTS, with knowledge on region affairs.
The Aberdeen Community Theatre was created in 1979 and performs at the Capitol Theatre in downtown Aberdeen.
The Capitol Theatre opened in 1927 and donated to the Aberdeen Community Theatre in 1991; since then more than $963,000 has been spent on renovating and preserving the historical aspect of the Capitol Theatre.
Today, the Aberdeen Community Theatre performs five mainstage productions and three youth productions per year.
There are four arcades in Aberdeen: Presentation College's Wein Gallery, Northern State University's Lincoln Gallery, the Aberdeen Recreation & Cultural Center (ARCC) Gallery and the Art - Works Cooperative Gallery positioned in The Aberdeen Mall.
The Village Bowl in Aberdeen is a undivided bowling center with multiple lanes.
Aberdeen has been home to three minor league baseball squads since 1920.
The Aberdeen Boosters, a class D league team, played in 1920, the Aberdeen Grays, also a class D team, played from 1921 to 1923.
The class C Aberdeen Pheasants from 1946 to 1971, and 1995 to 1997.
Aberdeen was a stop to the majors for such notable players as Don Larsen (perfect game in the World Series), Lou Piniella (AL rookie of the year with Kansas City Royals in 1969), and Jim Palmer, Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles.
Aberdeen is presently home to 24 enhance tennis courts throughout the town/city Melgaard Park (4), Northern State University (12), and Holgate Middle School (8).
Aberdeen has three golf courses.
Aberdeen has multiple outside skating rinks and hockey rinks open to the enhance amid winter months.
Aberdeen is also home to the NAHL team, Aberdeen Wings.
Aberdeen has a skate park positioned between East Melgaard Road and 17th Ave SE at Melgaard Park.
Aberdeen has two disc golf courses, Melgaard Park, and the Richmond Lake Disc Golf Course.
Aberdeen has an All-women's Roller Derby league "A-Town Roller Girlz" established 2011, also bringing Junior Roller Derby to the area.
Wylie Park Recreation Area features go-kart racing, sand volleyball courts, access to Wylie Lake, camping area, picnic areas, and is connected to Storybook Land.
Baum was a resident of Aberdeen in the 1880s, but left after the failure of the journal The Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer, where he wrote a column, Our Landlady. Aberdeen is the center of government for Brown County.
Aberdeen is home to Brown County offices including clerk-magistrate, county auditor, landfill office, register of deeds, county treasurer, coroner, emergency management, highway superintendent, enhance welfare, state's attorney, and a several others.
The state senators from Brown County include Brock Greenfield and Al Novstrup, and the state delegates included Lana Greefield, Burt Tulson, Dan Kaiser and Drew Dennert.
In 2008, Gov Mike Rounds titled Aberdeen as the South Dakota Community of the Year.
Aberdeen Public Schools are part of the Aberdeen School District.
The school precinct has five elementary schools, two middle schools, and one high school.
The two middle schools are Holgate Middle School, which serves the north side of Aberdeen, and Simmons Middle School, which serves the south side of the city.
Aberdeen also has an alternative middle and high school.
The Aberdeen School District's enrollment for the year 2011 2012 was approximately 3,945 students, and the average class size was in the low to mid-twenties.
The enhance school in Aberdeen is AA under the SDHSAA.
Aberdeen has a several parochial schools, including the Catholic-affiliated Roncalli High School, the nondenominational Aberdeen Christian School and the Trinity Lutheran School (WELS).
The South Dakota School for the Blind and Visually Impaired is a state special school under the direction of the South Dakota Board of Regents. NSU was originally called the Institute of South Dakota before changing its name to Northern Normal and Industrial School in 1901.
It changed its name again in 1939 when it became the Northern State Teachers College, and again in 1964, becoming Northern State College before finalizing at Northern State University in 1989.
Presentation College is a Catholic college on a 100-acre (0.40 km2) campus, and was established in 1951. Enrollment in fall 2014 was reported to be 735. PC offers 26 programs between the chief Aberdeen ground and the other campuses positioned throughout the state.
930 AM KSDN 930 KSDN News/Talk Hub City Radio Aberdeen 1420 AM KGIM ESPN Radio 1420/107.1 Sports Hub City Radio Aberdeen Aberdeen 88.1 FM K201 - HB Christian CSN International Aberdeen Aberdeen 89.7 FM K209 - FR Effect Radio Christian modern The River Christian Fellowship Aberdeen Aberdeen 90.1 FM KEEA Christian American Family Radio Aberdeen Aberdeen 90.9 FM KDSD South Dakota Public Broadcasting Public radio South Dakota Public Broadcasting Aberdeen Pierpont 91.7 FM K219 - CM South Dakota Public Broadcasting Public radio South Dakota Public Broadcasting Aberdeen Aberdeen 94.1 FM KSDN 94.1 The Rock Classic modern Hub City Radio Aberdeen Aberdeen 94.5 FM K233 - BN VCY America Christian VCY America Aberdeen Aberdeen 94.9 FM KLRJ K-Love Christian Educational Media Foundation Aberdeen Aberdeen 97.7 FM KNBZ Sunny 97.7 Adult intact Hub City Radio Aberdeen Redfield 98.5 FM K253 - AB Praise FM Christian Christian Heritage Broadcasting Aberdeen Aberdeen 102.1 FM K271 - CN KSDN News/Talk Hub City Radio Aberdeen Aberdeen 103.7 FM KGIM-FM Pheasant Country 103 Country Hub City Radio Aberdeen Redfield 105.5 FM KMOM Dakota 105.5 Country Dakota Broadcasting Aberdeen Roscoe 106.7 FM KBFO Point FM Top 40 Hub City Radio Aberdeen Aberdeen 107.1 FM K296 - FW ESPN Radio 1420/107.1 Sports Hub City Radio Aberdeen Aberdeen 107.7 FM KABD KABD-FM Adult hits Dakota Broadcasting Aberdeen Ipswich The Aberdeen Regional Airport is presently served by Delta Connection.
There are two primary US highways that serve Aberdeen.
The second highway is US Highway 12 that runs east-west athwart northern South Dakota from the Minnesota border before curving northwest into the southwestern corner of North Dakota.
US Highway 12 is the primary thoroughfare in Aberdeen.
US Highway 12 is signed in the town/city of Aberdeen as 6th Avenue South.
Aberdeen Taxi service provides general taxi service in Aberdeen.
Aberdeen Shuttle provides shuttle service to and from the airport along with general taxi services.
Jefferson Lines is a bus service from Aberdeen that joins to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Fargo, North Dakota, and Minneapolis, Minnesota.
There are five car rental services in Aberdeen: Hertz, Avis, Dollar-Thrifty, Toyota Rent-a-Car and Nissan Rental Car.
Dollar-Thrifty is positioned in Aberdeen Flying Service.
The BNSF Railway conveys freight and grain through Aberdeen.
Aberdeen is presently home to two hospitals, Avera St.
Luke's Hospital, and Sanford Aberdeen Medical Center. There are a several nursing homes in the area, including Avera Mother Joseph Manor, Manor Care, Bethesda Home of Aberdeen, Aberdeen Health and Rehab, Angelhaus and Gellhaus Carehaus.
James Andrew, Mary Magdalene, Mary Catherine, Mary Anne, and Mary Margaret Fischer, the first American quintuplets to survive infancy born in Aberdeen September 14, 1963 South Dakota State Historical Society.
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