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Renner, South Dakota

Field	Value
name	Renner
settlement_type	Unincorporated community
image_skyline	RennerLutheran.jpg
image_caption	Renner Lutheran Church
pushpin_map	South Dakota
pushpin_label_position	left
pushpin_map_caption	Location within the state of South Dakota
map_caption	Location within Minnehaha county
coordinates
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	United States
subdivision_type1	State
subdivision_name1	South Dakota
subdivision_type2	County
subdivision_name2	Minnehaha
established_title	Founded
established_date	1898
named_for	Leonard Renner
unit_pref	Imperial
elevation_ft	1434
population_density_sq_mi	auto
timezone	Central (CST)
utc_offset	-6
timezone_DST	CDT
utc_offset_DST	-5
postal_code_type	ZIP codes
postal_code	57055
area_code	605
blank_name	FIPS code
blank_info	46-54140
blank1_name	GNIS feature ID
blank1_info

Renner is an unincorporated community in Minnehaha County in the U.S. state of South Dakota. Renner has been assigned the ZIP code of 57055. The demographics of Renner are not listed separately by the United States Census Bureau, but are included within those of Mapleton Township. As of the 2020 United States census, there were 2,099 people residing in the township.

Renner lies just north of Sioux Falls on South Dakota Highway 115. It lies in the valley of the Big Sioux River on a line of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, now owned by the state of South Dakota and operated by D&I Railroad.

After completing the first non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean in May 1927, Charles Lindbergh made a stop in Renner on August 27, 1927. Contemporary estimates reported that between thirty and forty thousand people came to Renner to welcome him.

History

Renner was founded in 1898, and a depot along the Milwaukee Railroad was built here in 1907. The town is named after Leonard Renner, a local farmer on whose land the depot was built. One of the earliest rural electrification projects in the United States was undertaken here by Northern States Power Company in 1923, three years before a better-known project near Red Wing, Minnesota. Both projects were a success from the farmers' standpoint, but the overall cost to the company for each project versus the small revenue from each generally dissuaded the company from further attempts at rural electrification.

Renner Church

Renner Lutheran Church, founded in 1868 as Nidaros Church by Norwegian immigrants, is reportedly the oldest ELCA church in South Dakota. The church is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Renner Lutheran Sanctuary.

References

(2007-10-25). "US Board on Geographic Names". [[United States Geological Survey]].
"Mapleton township, Minnehaha County, South Dakota".
Federal Writers' Project. (1940). "South Dakota place-names, v.1-3". University of South Dakota.
"History of Renner Lutheran Church".
"SOUTH DAKOTA - Minnehaha County". National Register of Historic Places.

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