Owanka, South Dakota

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Owanka is an unincorporated community in Pennington County, South Dakota, United States.{{GNIS|1265314}} Although not tracked by the United States Census Bureau, Owanka has been assigned the ZIP Code of 57767.{{cite web | url=https://tools.usps.com/go/ZipLookupAction!input.action | title=Look Up a ZIP Code | publisher=USPS | access-date=24 March 2015}}

History

The first settlement at Owanka was made in 1888.{{cite book|author=Federal Writers' Project|author-link=Federal Writers' Project|title=South Dakota place-names, v.1-3|url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015027015455;view=1up;seq=143|year=1940|publisher=University of South Dakota|page=54}} A post office called Owanka was established in 1907.{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=SD&county=Pennington&searchtext=&pagenum=2 | title=Pennington County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=22 March 2015}} Owanka is a name derived from the Sioux language, meaning "good camping ground."{{cite book|author=Chicago and North Western Railway Company|title=A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OspBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA111|year=1908|page=111}}

Now mostly a ghost town, a single family resides in Owanka.{{PDFwayback |url=http://moh.tie.net/content/docs/Owanka.pdf |title=What Happened To Owanka? |date=20140423212910 |size=328KB}} In addition to those two people, several others reside outside the town limits.{{cite web |url=http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/owanka-s-few-and-faithful-like-the-peace-and-quiet/article_a2c0b93c-a040-5dd1-b63b-0e3d49c1296b.html |title=Owanka's few and faithful like the peace and quiet |access-date=2014-04-23 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017140301/http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/owanka-s-few-and-faithful-like-the-peace-and-quiet/article_a2c0b93c-a040-5dd1-b63b-0e3d49c1296b.html |archive-date=October 17, 2012 }}

South Dakota Magazine offers a photo gallery of old Owanka buildings in this article reference:{{cite web |url=http://southdakotamagazine.com/owanka-ghost-town |title=Owanka Ghost Town |access-date=2014-04-23 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140423213252/http://southdakotamagazine.com/owanka-ghost-town |archive-date=April 23, 2014 }}

References

Category:Unincorporated communities in Pennington County, South Dakota

Category:Unincorporated communities in South Dakota

Category:Rapid City, South Dakota metropolitan area

Category:Dakota toponyms

Category:Ghost towns in South Dakota

Category:Former populated places in Pennington County, South Dakota

Category:Populated places established in 1888

Category:1888 establishments in Dakota Territory