Golf in Wessington Springs

Wessington Springs is the Jerauld County seat in central South Dakota on Firesteel Creek, a small community that has maintained its role as county seat despite agricultural consolidation reducing surrounding populations. The springs that named the town made this a notable frontier stopping point, and the town's early prosperity is reflected in its historic buildings. Jerauld County's position in the transition zone between eastern cropland and western rangeland gives Wessington Springs a diverse agricultural catchment area and creates the economic mix that sustains the county seat's essential services. The springs that gave the town its name have dried up or been channeled away, but the community's persistence as a county seat reflects the institutional inertia of territorial-era Dakota.