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South Dakota county death feed: new obituaries in every county

One subscription. Every county in South Dakota. See new obituaries as they're published, the relatives named in them, and possible property matches where available. That gives investors, agents, trust managers, skip tracers and proptech teams an earlier start on their research. Relatives named in an obituary are not a legal determination of heirs. $249 a month per state after a 5-day free trial. Pull all counties or filter to a single county with county_slug.

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South Dakota Death & Obituary Data

Aggregate metrics from ObituaryMonitor's eligible Daily County Intelligence notice universe: not official vital statistics.

214

Deaths detected in the last 7 days

1,034

Deaths detected in the last 30 days

107

Active sources monitored (30 days)

46

Counties with recent activity

2 hours ago

Latest snapshot refresh

Data updated 2 hours ago

South Dakota Death Data by County

46 counties with recent activity

Explore recent death and obituary activity detected across supported counties. Search the coverage table below to see where eligible Daily County Intelligence records have been detected during the last 30 days.

County30-day recordsSourcesLatest activityStatus
Minnehaha County18716YesterdayActive
Lawrence County10152 days agoActive
Hand County851YesterdayActive
Lincoln County505TodayActive
Pennington County487YesterdayActive
Deuel County4733 days agoActive
Walworth County433YesterdayActive
Yankton County355YesterdayActive
Brookings County3362 days agoActive
Brown County2942 days agoActive
Bon Homme County2644 days agoActive
Custer County2623 days agoActive
Davison County2643 days agoActive
Hamlin County193YesterdayActive
Oglala Lakota County191Nov 4Active

Recent Deaths Detected Across South Dakota

Counts of death and obituary records detected by ObituaryMonitor, not official state mortality totals.

Last 7 days

214

Previous 7 days: 331 · -35% vs prior period

Last 30 days

1,034

Previous 30 days: 1,061 · -3% vs prior period

These figures represent records detected by ObituaryMonitor and should not be interpreted as official state mortality statistics.

What South Dakota Death & Obituary Records Can Include

Field availability across recent eligible South Dakota Daily County Intelligence records (trailing 30 days).

Name

100%

of recent South Dakota records

Date of death

100%

of recent South Dakota records

City / location

100%

of recent South Dakota records

County

100%

of recent South Dakota records

Source URL

100%

of recent South Dakota records

Funeral home / publisher

100%

of recent South Dakota records

Notice text read

98.8%

of recent South Dakota records

Where ObituaryMonitor Detects South Dakota Death & Obituary Data

Cities with recent eligible activity (not a complete list of every community).

Sioux Falls126Saint Lawrence85Lead65Hartford46Rapid City46Mobridge43Spearfish36Yankton36Brandon31Aberdeen27Custer26Toronto25

South Dakota Funeral Homes & Obituary Sources

ObituaryMonitor monitors funeral homes and obituary sources across South Dakota to detect newly published death and obituary information. Eligible records become available through Daily County Intelligence. Listing a source here does not imply a partnership.

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How South Dakota Daily County Intelligence Works

  1. ObituaryMonitor monitors 17,565+ funeral-home and newspaper sources.
  2. New death records are detected and normalized.
  3. Geographic information is assigned where supported.
  4. Eligible South Dakota records become available through Daily County Intelligence.
  5. Customers receive new records through API, CSV, or portal delivery.

Data is continuously collected from monitored sources, not sold as a static list.

Access South Dakota Death Data Your Way

API

Receive eligible South Dakota death and obituary records programmatically in JSON.

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CSV

Download or export records for operational workflows and CRM import.

Web Portal

Review and filter new South Dakota records through the ObituaryMonitor portal.

Who Uses South Dakota Death Data?

Real Estate Investors

Monitor newly detected deaths across every county in South Dakota for potential probate or inherited-property research.

Probate & Legal Services

Identify recent deaths within geographic service areas and support downstream estate workflows.

Financial Institutions

Use death signals as an additional input in deceased-customer and risk-monitoring processes. Financial institutions monitoring

Data & Software Companies

Integrate normalized death and obituary data into software products and operational systems.

Research / Operations

Monitor county-level death events without manually checking individual obituary websites.

Example South Dakota Death Data API Record

Illustrative sample record, not an actual person.

{
  "id": "fh-sample",
  "full_name": "Sample Person",
  "first_name": "Sample",
  "last_name": "Person",
  "date_of_death": "2026-08-08",
  "state": "SD",
  "county": "Minnehaha",
  "county_slug": "minnehaha-county-sd",
  "city": "Sioux Falls",
  "source_type": "funeral_home",
  "obituary_url": "https://example.com/sample",
  "funeral_home_name": "Example Funeral Home",
  "indexed_at": "2026-08-08T14:22:00.000Z",
  "survivors_status": "ok"
}

This example shows the structure of an eligible Daily County Intelligence record. Field names follow the public Daily County Intelligence notice schema. Internal-only fields are omitted.

South Dakota Death Data & Daily County Intelligence FAQ

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