Frederick, SD

Frederick is a town in northwestern Brown County, South Dakota, United States. The 2020 census counted 215 residents. Home to the annual Frederick Finn Fest, the town is part of the Aberdeen Micropolitan Statistical Area. Frederick was a railway town platted and sold to pioneers by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, which completed track into it on September 12, 1881. A newcomer can read Frederick through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, Frederick comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines. Its grid of blocks was aligned by compass, with numbered avenues running north–south, and numbered streets running east–west. Frederick is on U.S. Route 281 and is drained by the Maple River. Frederick is home to annual Frederick Finn Fest.