Fort Pierre, South Dakota

Fort Pierre population, 2020 to 2024

Fort Pierre added 43 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.0%. In the latest year it moved by -15.

Fort Pierre covers 3.12 square miles of land and 0.05 of water, for 692 people per square mile of land. The median South Dakota place of 5,000+ has 1,459, so Fort Pierre is less dense than the typical town.

What county Fort Pierre is in

All of Fort Pierre's residents live in Stanley County, which had 3,015 residents in 2024. Fort Pierre holds 71.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Fort Pierre

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Fort Pierre by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 57532. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Fort Pierre is

The Census internal point of Fort Pierre is at 44.366600, -100.382300. Pierre, the capital, is 1.8 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Pierre, SD (13,788 people), 3.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Sioux Falls, SD, 190.3 miles away.

Daylight in Fort Pierre

At 44.37° N, Fort Pierre gets about 15 h 32 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 51 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 42 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Fort Pierre

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in South Dakota, measured between internal points. The closest is Pierre, 3.1 miles away, with 13,788 people.