Rural Addressing Procedural Handbook

This handbook is to be used by county government to assign permanent addresses to locations in rural, unincorporated areas. Addresses should be assigned to existing structures, newly built structures, or any other location that is in need of an address for any reason.

This handbook is the product of many hours of work by the following governmental agencies and governmental officer's associations:

South Dakota Office of Emergency Management
South Dakota Municipal League
South Dakota Association of County Commissioners
South Dakota 9-1-1 Task Force
9-1-1 Task Force Rural Addressing Sub-Committee.

This system is designed for any county in South Dakota who desires to have a locatable rural addressing system. Every effort has been made to make this addressing system as simple as possible.

The goal of the agencies involved in building this system is to provide South Dakotan's with a simple addressing system which can be used for all of their addressing needs.

The Rural Addressing Procedural Handbook is available for downloading. (PDF Format)