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Elrod

South Dakota · SD · Clark County
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Unincorporated community in South Dakota, U.S.

Elrod was a town in Clark County, South Dakota. It was 8 miles (13 km) east of Clark, South Dakota located on two railroads. Elrod was originally called Ida, becoming Elrod in 1883. The most popular explanation for the town's name is that it is after Samuel H. Elrod, a personal friend of the original owner of the town site, and at one point an attorney in Clark county. However, there are competing explanations: that it was after a local grain merchant named W. S. Elrod; or alternatively that Ida and Elrod were initially two separate towns around stops on two railroads, Ida on the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad and (South) Elrod on the Chicago and North Western Railroad, and the latter surv…

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South Dakota · SD · Clark County
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