Wounded Knee, South Dakota

About Wounded Knee

Wounded Knee is a small unincorporated community in southwestern South Dakota.

Wounded Knee holds the status of a census-designated place — a real, named community that residents call home, governed at the county level. The community covers 1.07 square miles.

📰 Wounded Knee News Today

• Ep. 28: US Sen. Rounds on Wounded Knee medals, water pipelines and a ‘clandestine’ postal investigation South Dakota Searchlight · Aug 7
• Wounded Knee descendants vow to keep pressing for medal revocations as Senate committee seeks info South Dakota Searchlight · Jun 17
• Today in History: February 27, American Indian Movement takes over Wounded Knee The Mercury News · Feb 27
• Friday Timber Fire Update chadronradio.com · Mar 27
• Wounded Knee Massacre, December 29, 1890, Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota Sioux Wars HistoryNet · Mar 11

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What Makes Wounded Knee Unique

• The only place in America named Wounded Knee — a truly one-of-a-kind name among 32,000+ US communities.
• An unincorporated community — no city hall of its own, which often means lower local taxes and county-managed services.
• Positioned in southwestern South Dakota, convenient to the region's corridors and crossings.

Why People Love It Here

• Quiet streets and a slower rhythm — the kind of place people move to on purpose.
• Cost of living typically runs below the big-metro average.
• Well connected: 3+ neighboring communities within 13 miles.

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