De Smet

De Smet, —"The Little Town on the Prairie"—is the home of author Laura Ingalls Wilder. Visitors arrive each summer to visit the Ingalls Homestead, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Society, and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Pageant.
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  • Type: Town with 1,070 residents
  • Description: city in and county seat of Kingsbury County, South Dakota, United States
  • Also known as: Cream City”, “De Smet, SD”, “De Smet, South Dakota”, and “Desmet
  • Postal code: 57231

De Smet

Latitude
44.3875° or 44° 23′ 15″ north
Longitude
-97.5504° or 97° 33′ 1″ west
Population
1,070
Elevation
1,726 feet (526 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US DNX
Open location code
86P49CPX+XV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151364196
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5227237
Wiki­data ID
Q2625666
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“De Smet” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: دي سميت
  • Basque: De Smet
  • Catalan: De Smet
  • Cebuano: De Smet
  • Chechen: Ди-Смет
  • Chinese: De Smet
  • Chinese: 迪斯梅特
  • Czech: De Smet
  • Dagbani: De Smet
  • Danish: De Smet
  • Dutch: De Smet
  • Egyptian Arabic: دى سميت
  • Finnish: De Smet
  • French: De Smet
  • German: De Smet
  • Gilaki: دسمت (نسايي داکؤتا)
  • Gilaki: دسمت
  • Haitian: De Smet, Dakota disid
  • Haitian: De Smet
  • Hebrew: דה סמט
  • Hindi: डि स्मैट, दक्षिण डकोटा
  • Hindi: डि स्मैट
  • Hungarian: De Smet
  • Irish: De Smet
  • Italian: De Smet
  • Japanese: デ・スメット
  • Ladin: De Smet
  • Malagasy: De Smet, South Dakota
  • Malagasy: De Smet
  • Min Nan Chinese: De Smet
  • Norwegian Bokmål: De Smet
  • Norwegian: De Smet
  • Persian: دا اسمت، داکوتای جنوبی
  • Persian: دا اسمت
  • Polish: De Smet
  • Russian: Де-Смет
  • Serbian: Де Смит
  • Serbo-Croatian: De Smet, South Dakota
  • Serbo-Croatian: De Smet
  • Slovak: De Smet
  • Slovenian: De Smet
  • South Azerbaijani: دا اسمت، گونئی داکوتا
  • Spanish: De Smet (Dakota del Sur)
  • Spanish: De Smet
  • Swedish: De Smet
  • Tatar: Ди-Смет
  • Ukrainian: Ді-Смет
  • Urdu: ڈی سمیٹ، جنوبی ڈکوٹا
  • Urdu: ڈی سمیٹ
  • Uzbek: De Smet
  • Volapük: De Smet
  • Waray (Philippines): De Smet, South Dakota
  • Waray (Philippines): De Smet
  • Welsh: De Smet, De Dakota
  • Welsh: De Smet
  • De Smet

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “De Smet”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.