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Marshall County68 lakes Day County36 lakes Pennington County34 lakes Codington County26 lakes Deuel County25 lakes Roberts County24 lakes Clark County23 lakes Harding County23 lakes Lake County22 lakes Brookings County18 lakes Aurora County17 lakes Bennett County17 lakes

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Aurora County17 lakes Beadle County9 lakes Bennett County17 lakes Big Stone County1 lake Bon Homme County8 lakes Brookings County18 lakes Brown County10 lakes Brule County12 lakes Buffalo County2 lakes Butte County4 lakes Campbell County13 lakes Charles Mix County16 lakes Cherry County1 lake Clark County23 lakes Clay County6 lakes Codington County26 lakes Corson County8 lakes Custer County10 lakes Davison County1 lake Day County36 lakes Deuel County25 lakes Dewey County14 lakes Douglas County4 lakes Edmunds County9 lakes Fall River County8 lakes Faulk County16 lakes Grant County9 lakes Gregory County11 lakes Haakon County5 lakes Hamlin County11 lakes Hand County11 lakes Hanson County8 lakes Harding County23 lakes Hughes County7 lakes Hutchinson County5 lakes Hyde County11 lakes Jackson County10 lakes Jerauld County7 lakes Jones County4 lakes Kingsbury County14 lakes Lake County22 lakes Lawrence County13 lakes Lincoln County3 lakes Lyman County13 lakes Marshall County68 lakes McCook County10 lakes McPherson County12 lakes Meade County17 lakes Mellette County1 lake Miner County15 lakes Minnehaha County14 lakes Moody County3 lakes Oglala Lakota County10 lakes Pennington County34 lakes Perkins County9 lakes Potter County5 lakes Roberts County24 lakes Sanborn County5 lakes Spink County8 lakes Stanley County3 lakes Sully County12 lakes Todd County14 lakes Traverse County2 lakes Tripp County12 lakes Turner County2 lakes Union County4 lakes Walworth County6 lakes Yankton County5 lakes Ziebach County14 lakes

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