Mina, SD

With a post office, a school district, and a name tied to the railroad era, Mina gives Edmunds County's open country a very particular landmark. It is an unincorporated census-designated place in Edmunds County, and the Mina post office operated from 1909 to 1983. Local history most often links the name to Mina Erling, the daughter of a railroad official. The place is part of Ipswich School District 22-6, so its school connection reaches beyond the settlement itself. Mina is the kind of place whose story is carried by a few durable threads—railroad memory, the old post office, and the surrounding prairie roads.