Rowena is an unincorporated community

Unincorporated area

In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not a part of any municipality.To "incorporate" in this context means to form a municipal corporation, a city, town, or village with its own government. An unincorporated community is usually not subject to or taxed by a municipal government...

 in Minnehaha County

Minnehaha County, South Dakota

As of the census of 2000, there were 148,281 people, 57,996 households, and 37,581 families residing in the county. The population density was 183 people per square mile . There were 60,237 housing units at an average density of 74 per square mile...

, South Dakota

South Dakota

South Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is named after the Lakota and Dakota Sioux American Indian tribes. Once a part of Dakota Territory, South Dakota became a state on November 2, 1889. The state has an area of and an estimated population of just over...

 along South Dakota State Highway 42.

Rowena is located at 43°31′13"N 96°33′20"W, just over a mile north of the border with Iowa

Iowa

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, about 5 miles (8 km) east of Sioux Falls

Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Sioux Falls is the largest city in the U.S. state of South Dakota. Sioux Falls is the county seat of Minnehaha County, and also extends into Lincoln County to the south...

, and 5 miles (8 km) west of the Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

 border, at an elevation of 1,411 feet (430 m). The ZIP Code

ZIP Code

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 is 57056.

Television Towers

Two of the South Dakota's tallest structures are located near Rowena: the 609.6 meter high KDLT Tower

KDLT Tower

The KDLT tower is a high guy-wired aerial mast for the transmission of FM and TV programmes in Rowena, South Dakota, USA. The KDLT tower was completed in 1998 and is owned by Red River Broadcast Co., LLC....

, and the slightly shorter KELO TV Tower.

History

Rowena was founded on October 17, 1888. Farming is the traditional activity of Rowena.

According to an 1895 atlas, Rowena had a population of 126 people. According to the 1950 census

United States Census, 1950

The Seventeenth United States Census, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States to be 150,697,361, an increase of 14.5 percent over the 131,669,275 persons enumerated during the 1940 Census.-Census questions:...

, Rowena had a population of 70. The United States Census Bureau

United States Census Bureau

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no longer tracks Rowena as a separate community.