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Chance is an unincorporated community in Perkins County, in the U.S. state of South Dakota. The community is just northeast of the confluence of Hart Creek and Thunder Butte Creek.

History

A post office called Chance was established in 1901, and remained in operation until 1958. The name may be derived from the local Chance Ranch, or according to tradition, because petitioners for the post office saw "little chance" their efforts would succeed. The town once had a newspaper, The Chance Record.

References

1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Chance, South Dakota
2. Chance, SD, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1983
3. "Perkins County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved January 26, 2015.
4. Federal Writers' Project (1940). South Dakota place-names, v.1-3. University of South Dakota. p. 30.

v t e Municipalities and communities of Perkins County, South Dakota, United States
County seat: Bison
City	Lemmon
Town	Bison
Townships	Ada Anderson Antelope Barrett Beck-Highland Bison Burdick Cash Castle Butte Chance Chaudoin Clark De Witt Duell Englewood Flat Creek Foster Fredlund Glendo Grand River Hall Horse Creek Liberty Lincoln Lodgepole Lone Tree Maltby Marshfield Meadow Moreau Plateau Rainbow Rockford Scotch Cap Sidney Strool Trail Vail Vickers Viking Vrooman Wells White Butte Wilson
CDP	Prairie City
Other communities	Chance Lodgepole Meadow Shadehill Sorum Usta White Butte Zeona
Ghost towns	Bixby Coal Springs Date Ellingson Imogene Strool Zeona
Indian reservation	Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation‡
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties
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45°24′36″N 102°16′53″W / 45.41000°N 102.28139°W / 45.41000; -102.28139

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