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Crossings / South Dakota

South Dakota
crossings.

Cities9010+ crossings each
Public crossings1,345at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates7%1,080 with no active device
Reported incidents88Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 1,345 public at-grade crossings across the 90 South Dakota cities with at least ten of them. Sioux Falls has the most at 90.

BNSF Railway Company operates the most of them at 651, ahead of Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern Railroad, Inc. at 278.

80% of those crossings carry no active warning device (crossbucks, a stop sign or nothing recorded) against 7% with gates.

Crossing counts follow how much track runs through a place, not how busy or how loud it is. A city with many short industrial spurs will list more crossings than one with a single mainline carrying far more trains.

Every South Dakota city on the inventory

CityCountyCrossingsGatedQuiet zoneIncidents
Sioux Falls Minnehaha 90 8% 0 15
Aberdeen Brown 43 23% 2 7
Rapid City Pennington 37 3% 0 6
Wolsey Beadle 36 6% 0 5
Britton Marshall 27 0% 0 0
Huron Beadle 27 0% 0 2
Watertown Codington 25 12% 0 4
Mitchell Davison 24 17% 0 3
Canton Lincoln 23 13% 0 3
Redfield Spink 23 0% 0 2
Yankton Yankton 23 17% 0 2
Tyndall Bon Homme 20 0% 0 0
Highmore Hyde 19 11% 0 0
Roscoe Edmunds 19 5% 0 4
Claremont Brown 18 0% 0 0
De Smet Kingsbury 16 6% 0 0
Geddes Charles Mix 16 0% 0 0
Tabor Bon Homme 16 0% 0 0
Woonsocket Sanborn 16 0% 0 2
Yale Beadle 16 0% 0 0
South Shore Codington 15 0% 0 0
Bancroft Kingsbury 14 0% 0 0
Elk Point Union 14 29% 0 1
Garretson Minnehaha 14 14% 0 2
Mount Vernon Davison 14 0% 0 1
Murdo Jones 14 0% 0 0
Tripp Hutchinson 14 14% 0 0
Willow Lake Clark 14 0% 0 0
Alcester Union 13 0% 0 0
Blunt Hughes 13 0% 0 0
Kimball Brule 13 0% 0 0
Letcher Sanborn 13 8% 0 2
Milbank Grant 13 23% 0 2
Pierre Hughes 13 62% 0 1
Platte Charles Mix 13 0% 0 0
Sturgis Meade 13 8% 0 5
Wentworth Lake 13 0% 0 0
Wilmot Roberts 13 8% 0 0
Alexandria Hanson 12 8% 0 0
Arlington Kingsbury 12 8% 1 1
Athol Spink 12 0% 0 0
Brookings Brookings 12 42% 0 2
Corona Grant 12 0% 0 0
Dolton Turner 12 0% 0 0
Lake Andes Charles Mix 12 0% 0 0
Lesterville Yankton 12 8% 0 0
New Effington Roberts 12 0% 0 0
Presho Lyman 12 0% 0 0
Scotland Bon Homme 12 8% 0 1
Utica Yankton 12 0% 0 0
Webster Day 12 25% 0 0
Albee Grant 11 0% 0 0
Ashton Spink 11 0% 0 1
Belle Fourche Butte 11 0% 0 1
Beresford Union 11 0% 0 0
Bridgewater McCook 11 0% 0 0
Bristol Day 11 9% 0 0
Colton Minnehaha 11 18% 0 0
Gayville Yankton 11 0% 0 0
Groton Brown 11 9% 0 0
Hudson Lincoln 11 9% 0 1
Ipswich Edmunds 11 18% 0 0
Lennox Lincoln 11 18% 0 0
Northville Spink 11 0% 0 0
Onida Sully 11 0% 0 0
Parker Turner 11 0% 0 1
Parkston Hutchinson 11 18% 0 1
Plankinton Aurora 11 0% 0 0
Rosholt Roberts 11 0% 0 0
Sisseton Roberts 11 9% 0 0
Tulare Spink 11 0% 0 2
Warner Brown 11 18% 0 0
Wessington Beadle 11 9% 0 1
Avon Bon Homme 10 0% 0 0
Bowdle Edmunds 10 10% 0 0
Chester Lake 10 0% 0 0
Dell Rapids Minnehaha 10 10% 0 0
Emery Hanson 10 10% 0 0
Fort Pierre Stanley 10 10% 0 2
Harrisburg Lincoln 10 30% 0 2
Harrold Hughes 10 10% 0 0
Hazel Hamlin 10 0% 0 0
Kennebec Lyman 10 0% 0 0
Keystone Pennington 10 0% 0 0
Marion Turner 10 0% 0 1
Mellette Spink 10 10% 0 0
Mina Edmunds 10 0% 0 0
Volga Brookings 10 20% 0 2
Wagner Charles Mix 10 0% 0 0
White Lake Aurora 10 0% 0 0

Only cities with at least ten public at-grade crossings appear here. A city missing from this table has fewer, not none.