Lemmon

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Lemmon

Total population

1,208

Median home value

$86,200

22.9%

Bachelor's+

Median income

$50,147

Lemmon$50k

National$74k

Elevation783 m

Land area2.69 km²

Weather54°F · Cloudy

Coordinates45.94°, -102.16°

Demographic figures from US Census Bureau · ACS 5-year estimates. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Lemmon is a town in Perkins County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 1,160 at the 2020 census.

History & geography

Excerpted from the corresponding Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA).

Demographics & economy

Source: US Census Bureau — American Community Survey, 5-year estimates.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Current forecast

Forecast for Lemmon, SD from NOAA NWS API.

Health (adults)

Age-adjusted prevalence estimates from CDC PLACES (latest release).

Schools

Public K–12 schools within ~10 mi from Urban Institute Education Data Portal (NCES Common Core of Data, 2022).

Notable people from here

G

G. A. Swanson

American systems scientist

Gale Cleven

American pilot (1918–2006)

Troy Meink

United States Secretary of the Air Force

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in South Dakota

• Morristown
  21.2 mi away
• Prairie City
  42.2 mi away
• Isabel
  51.5 mi away · pop. 214
• Faith
  63.3 mi away · pop. 297
• Little Eagle
  68 mi away
• Green Grass
  68.6 mi away
• Buffalo
  71 mi away · pop. 278
• Whitehorse
  76.2 mi away
• North Eagle Butte
  77.7 mi away
• Eagle Butte
  79.2 mi away · pop. 1,458
• Wakpala
  80.6 mi away
• Mobridge
  87.6 mi away

Browse all places in South Dakota →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Lemmon

Lands for reservoir at Lemmon, S. Dak

Phone Number List | Databases List · 1916

South Dakota (This Land Is Your Land)

Ann Heinrichs · 2003

Controlled Recklessness

Nathan Sanderson · 2017

Controlled recklessness

Nathan Sanderson · 2015

Certain lands to City of Lemmon, S. Dak., for reservoir purposes

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Lands

TV Talk 3

Peggy Herz · 1977

Search results from Open Library.

Recent natural events nearby

• Wildfire Fairpoint, Meade, South Dakota
  Wildfires · 2026-07-27 · 88 mi
• Wildfire Duhamel, Pennington, South Dakota
  Wildfires · 2026-07-29 · 104 mi
• Wildfire Ayers Pond, Prairie, Montana
  Wildfires · 2026-09-03 · 137 mi
• Incident Complex Rattlesnake Complex, Prairie, Montana
  Wildfires · 2026-09-04 · 140 mi
• Wildfire Snow, Custer, Montana
  Wildfires · 2026-09-02 · 149 mi
• Wildfire XU Hill, Oglala Lakota, South Dakota
  Wildfires · 2026-08-11 · 161 mi
• Wildfire Potato Creek, Jackson, South Dakota
  Wildfires · 2026-08-01 · 164 mi
• Wildfire Potato Creek, Jackson, South Dakota
  Wildfires · 2026-07-27 · 164 mi

Wildfires, storms and other events from NASA EONET (last 12 months, within 250 mi).