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Welcome to Prairie Queen ...

So far, we found very little information about Prairie Queen. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Prairie Queen to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Prairie Queen, please Contact Us.

Prairie Queen would have been located within present day Lake County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Prairie Queen, you might consider that their post office opened in 1879.

While the community is gone, the present day location for Prairie Queen is 1,710 feet [521 m] above sea level.<3>.

Time Zone: The area where Prairie Queen was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

The Area Code where Prairie Queen was located: 605

Communities Also Named Prairie Queen ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Prairie Queen - it's located in Minnesota.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Prairie Queen.

Communities near Prairie Queen ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Prairie Queen.

  • Brookings
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Madison
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Volga
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Volga is located in Brookings County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Volga
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,080 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Volga <4>
  • Medary
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Medary is located in Brookings County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Medary
    • Estimated population in 2014: 1,442 people
  • Arlington
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
  • Aurora
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
  • Colman
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Franklin
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • Franklin is located in Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Franklin
    • Estimated population in 2014: 333 people
  • Egan
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
  • Rutland
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Prairie Queen. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Prairie Queen.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Prairie Queen. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Prairie Queen.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Prairie Queen. See our Newspapers Page for Prairie Queen.

Adding Prairie Queen to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Prairie Queen in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Prairie Queen was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Prairie Queen post office opened in 1879. The Prairie Queen post office closed in 1904.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Prairie Queen.

Footnotes ...

<1>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Prairie Queen, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>If you're interested in how the shape of South Dakota's counties, including Lake, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Prairie Queen - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/