Oral,_South_Dakota

Oral, South Dakota

Oral, South Dakota

Unincorporated community in South Dakota, United States

Oral is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Fall River County, South Dakota, United States.[3] The population was 66 at the 2020 census.[4]

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Oral has been assigned the ZIP Code of 57766.[5]

Demographics

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History

A post office called Oral has been in operation since 1894.[7] Some say Oral is the middle name of the first postmaster's son,[8] (John Oral Goodman, later of Riverton, WY) while others believe the community was so named with the expectation the place would become something people would be talking about.[9]

  • Sign in Oral

References

  1. [1]
    "ArcGIS REST Services Directory". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved October 15, 2022.
  2. [2]
    "Census Population API". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved October 15, 2022.
  3. [3]
    U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Oral
  4. [4]
    "U.S. Census Bureau: Oral CDP, South Dakota". www.census.gov. United States Census Bureau. Retrieved March 25, 2022.
  5. [5]
    "Oral, SD ZIP Codes". SD HomeTownLocator. HTL, Inc. Retrieved September 12, 2008.
  6. [6]
    "Census of Population and Housing". Census.gov. Retrieved June 4, 2016.
  7. [7]
    "Fall River County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved March 24, 2015.
  8. [8]
    Federal Writers' Project (1940). South Dakota place-names, v.1-3. University of South Dakota. p. 52.
  9. [9]
    Chicago and North Western Railway Company (1908). A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways. p. 110.


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