Official Name: | Mina |
Settlement Type: | Census-designated place |
Pushpin Map: | South Dakota#USA |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in South Dakota##Location in the United States |
Pushpin Label: | Mina |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name1: | South Dakota |
Subdivision Name2: | Edmunds |
Established Title: | Established |
Established Date: | 1909 |
Named For: | Mina Erling |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Area Total Km2: | 12.21 |
Area Total Sq Mi: | 4.71 |
Area Land Km2: | 9.80 |
Area Land Sq Mi: | 3.78 |
Area Water Km2: | 2.41 |
Area Water Sq Mi: | 0.93 |
Elevation Ft: | 1431 |
Population Total: | 554 |
Population As Of: | 2020 |
Population Footnotes: | [2] |
Population Density Km2: | 56.55 |
Population Density Sq Mi: | 146.48 |
Timezone1: | Central (CST) |
Utc Offset: | -6 |
Timezone Dst: | CDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -5 |
Blank Name: | FIPS code |
Blank Info: | 46-42700 |
Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank1 Info: | 2813018 |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Mina is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place (CDP) in Edmunds County, in the U.S. state of South Dakota. The population of the CDP was 554 at the 2020 census.[3]
A post office called Mina was established in 1909, and remained in operation until 1983.[4] The community most likely was named after Mina Erling, the daughter of a railroad official.[5]
See main article: 1999 South Dakota Learjet crash. In 1999, a Learjet carrying PGA golfer Payne Stewart and five other people (including two pilots and three passengers) crashed in a field about a mile south of Mina. All were allegedly dead from a lack of oxygen long before the crash.[6]