# Counties in South Dakota by land in farms, 2022

All 66 values come from U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Service for 2022, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `farmland_area`
- Unit: acres
- Definition: Land operated by farms in the census year, in acres, including cropland, pasture, woodland and land under farm buildings, as counted by the USDA Census of Agriculture every five years.
- Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Service, Census of Agriculture: land in farms, acres, nation, states and counties (1997 to 2022) (https://www.nass.usda.gov/AgCensus/)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/usda-nass
- Retrieved: 2026-10-11
- Citation: Source: USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service, Census of Agriculture. Census of Agriculture: land in farms, acres, nation, states and counties (1997 to 2022). Retrieved through Data Commons (datacommons.org). https://www.nass.usda.gov/AgCensus/. Retrieved 2026-10-11.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/land-in-farms/south-dakota-counties

| Rank | Place | acres |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Meade County | 2,217,742 |
| 2 | Perkins County | 1,831,580 |
| 3 | Harding County | 1,671,254 |
| 4 | Corson County | 1,368,478 |
| 5 | Butte County | 1,348,702 |
| 6 | Dewey County | 1,202,557 |
| 7 | Jackson County | 1,180,521 |
| 8 | Pennington County | 1,166,970 |
| 9 | Haakon County | 1,151,771 |
| 10 | Oglala Lakota County | 1,070,988 |
| 11 | Lyman County | 1,043,956 |
| 12 | Fall River County | 1,034,789 |
| 13 | Ziebach County | 1,023,693 |
| 14 | Brown County | 1,023,480 |
| 15 | Tripp County | 943,080 |
| 16 | Hand County | 913,410 |
| 17 | Spink County | 882,273 |
| 18 | Todd County | 872,654 |
| 19 | Mellette County | 809,354 |
| 20 | Stanley County | 807,225 |
| 21 | Edmunds County | 718,058 |
| 22 | Beadle County | 669,521 |
| 23 | Charles Mix County | 654,941 |
| 24 | McPherson County | 652,253 |
| 25 | Custer County | 651,850 |
| 26 | Bennett County | 648,492 |
| 27 | Faulk County | 626,281 |
| 28 | Jones County | 615,446 |
| 29 | Gregory County | 593,576 |
| 30 | Sully County | 578,110 |
| 31 | Roberts County | 551,709 |
| 32 | Potter County | 549,060 |
| 33 | Marshall County | 534,275 |
| 34 | Hutchinson County | 494,622 |
| 35 | Hyde County | 485,521 |
| 36 | Day County | 477,100 |
| 37 | Brule County | 474,226 |
| 38 | Clark County | 473,992 |
| 39 | Campbell County | 448,929 |
| 40 | Hughes County | 446,067 |
| 41 | Walworth County | 444,144 |
| 42 | Kingsbury County | 419,877 |
| 43 | Turner County | 394,807 |
| 44 | Grant County | 387,088 |
| 45 | Brookings County | 374,488 |
| 46 | Aurora County | 356,901 |
| 47 | Minnehaha County | 325,498 |
| 48 | Miner County | 317,295 |
| 49 | Jerauld County | 312,961 |
| 50 | Buffalo County | 300,533 |
| 51 | McCook County | 298,924 |
| 52 | Sanborn County | 293,602 |
| 53 | Codington County | 282,976 |
| 54 | Bon Homme County | 269,582 |
| 55 | Deuel County | 253,106 |
| 56 | Yankton County | 252,180 |
| 57 | Lincoln County | 246,755 |
| 58 | Hamlin County | 231,481 |
| 59 | Hanson County | 230,060 |
| 60 | Davison County | 223,994 |
| 61 | Moody County | 216,019 |
| 62 | Lake County | 213,574 |
| 63 | Union County | 197,254 |
| 64 | Douglas County | 194,267 |
| 65 | Clay County | 191,404 |
| 66 | Lawrence County | 167,325 |