Vehicle registration plates of South Dakota

The U.S. state of South Dakota first required its residents to register their motor vehicles and display license plates in 1913.

Contents

Passenger baseplates 1933 to present

Image First issued Design Slogan Serial format Serials issued Notes
1933 Black lettering and border embossed on yellow base none 12-3456 unknown
1974 blue on white with red and black Mount Rushmore graphic First graphic license plate in the United States. Awarded "Plate of the Year" for best new license plate of 1974 by the Automobile License Plate Collectors Association, the first time South Dakota was so honored.
1981 Awarded "Plate of the Year" for best new license plate of 1981 by the Automobile License Plate Collectors Association, the second time South Dakota was so honored.
2000 blue on white with Mount Rushmore graphic none Coded by county of issuance:
  • 0AB 123
  • 00A 123
  • 00A B23 (following exhaustion of above format)
2006 dark blue on full-color Mount Rushmore graphic Great Faces. Great Places. Coded by county of issuance:
  • 0AB 123
  • 0ABC 12 (following exhaustion of above format)
  • 00A 123
  • 00A B23 (following exhaustion of above format)
  • 00A BC3 (following exhaustion of above format)
 Serial progression continued from where 2000 base ceased. Awarded "Plate of the Year" for best new license plate of 2006 by the Automobile License Plate Collectors Association, the third time South Dakota was so honored.

Non-passenger types

2006 to present

Image Type Design Slogan Serial format Notes
City Government Modified blue Mount Rushmore base. none CTY1234
County Government Modified blue Mount Rushmore base. none CO 1234
CO12345
Fire Department Modified blue Mount Rushmore base. none FD 1234
School Modified blue Mount Rushmore base. none S 1234
Oglala Sioux Tribe government Modified blue Mount Rushmore base. none OST 123
OST1234
State Government Modified blue Mount Rushmore base. none AB123 State seal at left, state flag bottom right corner.

Optional types

Image Type Design Slogan Serial format Notes
Veteran Modified blue Mount Rushmore base. VETERAN 1234A Logo for branch of service at left.

County coding

Code County
1 Minnehaha
2 Pennington
3 Brown
4 Beadle
5 Codington
6 Brookings
7 Yankton
8 Davison
9 Lawrence
10 Aurora
11 Bennett
12 Bon Homme
13 Brule
14 Buffalo
15 Butte
16 Campbell
17 Charles Mix
18 Clark
19 Clay
20 Corson
21 Custer
22 Day
23 Deuel
24 Dewey
25 Douglas
26 Edmunds
27 Fall River
28 Faulk
29 Grant
30 Gregory
31 Haakon
32 Hamlin
33 Hand
34 Hanson
35 Harding
36 Hughes
37 Hutchinson
38 Hyde
39 Jackson
40 Jerauld
41 Jones
42 Kingsbury
43 Lake
44 Lincoln
45 Lyman
46 McCook
47 McPherson
48 Marshall
49 Meade
50 Mellette
51 Miner
52 Moody
53 Perkins
54 Potter
55 Roberts
56 Sanborn
57 Spink
58 Stanley
59 Sully
60 Tripp
61 Turner
62 Union
63 Walworth
64 Ziebach
65 Shannon
66 Washabaugh
67 Todd

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