List of U.S. Place Names of French Origin - South Dakota

South Dakota

  • Belle Fourche ("Beautiful Fork")
  • Belvidere (maybe from "belvédère")
  • Bois de Sioux River (Woods of the Sioux River)
  • Bon Homme County ("Good Man" County)
  • Burdette
  • Butte County
  • Conde (maybe from the noble French family of Condé)
  • Coteau des Prairies ("Slope of the prairies")
  • Coteau du Missouri ("Slope of the Missouri")
  • Dupree (maybe from "du pré")
  • Flandreau, named for Charles Eugene Flandrau, judge of Huguenot ancestry
  • Fort Pierre
  • Jerauld County
  • Joubert (A common French surname)
  • Lake Traverse
  • Mellette County
  • Pierre, named for Pierre Chouteau, Jr., an American fur trader of French Canadian origin
  • Roubaix Lake, a lake located in the Black Hills (from the French city of Roubaix)

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