Most Common City Names: How Many in South Dakota, Iowa, Minnesota?

With a whopping 19,495 cities in America, it's not surprising that the need to reuse names was a necessity over the generations.

24/7 Wall St has compiled a list of America's Most Repeated City Names and almost all of them can be found somewhere in South Dakota, Iowa, and Minnesota.

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FRANKLIN (32 cities in U.S.) 

• South Dakota: Lake County (population: 180)
• Iowa: Lee County (population: 131)
• Minnesota: Renville County (population: 510)

CLINTON (30 cities in U.S.)

• South Dakota: Miner County (population unknown)
• Iowa: Clinton County (population: 24,469)
• Minnesota: Big Stone County (population: 386)

MADISON (26 cities in U.S.)

• South Dakota: Lake County (population: 6,191)
• Iowa: Lee County (population: 10,270)
• Minnesota: Lac qui Parle County (population: 1,518)

FAIRVIEW (26 cities in U.S.)

• South Dakota:  Lincoln County (population: 61)
• Iowa: Jones County (population unknown)
• Minnesota: None

WASHINGTON (25 cities in U.S.)

• South Dakota: None
• Iowa: Washington County (population: 7,352)
• Minnesota: Le Sueur County (population: 797)

MANCHESTER (24 cities in U.S.)

• South Dakota: Kingsbury County (population unknown)
• Iowa: Delaware Township (population: 5,065)
• Minnesota: Freeborn County (population: 57)

MARION (24 cities in U.S.)

• South Dakota: Turner County (population: 849)
• Iowa: Linn County (population: 26,294)
• Minnesota: Olmsted County (population: 6,159)

SALEM (24 cities in U.S.)

• South Dakota: McCook County (population: 1,325)
• Iowa: Henry County (population: 394)
• Minnesota: Olmsted County (population 1,061) and Cass County (population unknown)

CHESTER (24 cities in U.S.)

• South Dakota: Lake County (population: 257)
• Iowa: Howard County (population: 139)
• Minnesota: Polk County (population: 79) and  Wabasha County (population: 470)

ARLINGTON (23 cities in U.S.)

• South Dakota: Brookings and Kingsbury Counties (population: 915)
• Iowa: Fayette County (population: 419)
• Minnesota: Sibley County (population: 2,233)

MONROE (23 cities in U.S.)

• South Dakota: Turner County (population: 159)
• Iowa: Jasper and Marion Counties (population: 1,967)
• Minnesota: Lyon County (population: 242)

SPRINGFIELD (23 cities in U.S.)

• South Dakota: Bon Homme County (population: 1,914)
• Iowa: None
• Minnesota: Brown County (population: 21,152)

MILFORD (23 cities in U.S.)

• South Dakota: None
• Iowa: Dickinson County (population: 3,321)
• Minnesota: Brown County (population: 793)

GREENVILLE (23 cities in U.S.)

• South Dakota: None
• Iowa: Clay County (population: 71)
• Minnesota: None