Plainview Colony, South Dakota

About Plainview Colony

Plainview Colony, SD is a small unincorporated community located in northern South Dakota.

Plainview Colony holds the status of a census-designated place — a real, named community that residents call home, governed at the county level. The community covers 0.21 square miles.

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• Clarence Wipf, 1953-2020 drgnews.com · Sep 18

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What Makes Plainview Colony Unique

• The only place in America named Plainview Colony — a truly one-of-a-kind name among 32,000+ US communities.
• One of the smallest municipal footprints in the country at just 0.21 sq mi.
• An unincorporated community — no city hall of its own, which often means lower local taxes and county-managed services.
• Positioned in northern South Dakota, convenient to the region's corridors and crossings.

Why People Love It Here

• Small-town pace of life: less traffic, more community, and neighbors who wave.
• Cost of living typically runs below the big-metro average.
• Well connected: 3+ neighboring communities within 10 miles.

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