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Mitchell is a city in southeastern South Dakota and the county seat of Davison County.

The first settlement at Mitchell was made in 1879, the city was incorporated in 1883, and it was named for Alexander Mitchell, a Milwaukee banker who was president of the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad.

The 2020 census counted 15,660 residents in Mitchell, making it the seventh-most populous city in South Dakota.

The 2010 census counted 6,696 households and 3,641 families in Mitchell.

Mitchell is the principal city of the Mitchell Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Davison and Hanson counties.

Mitchell is famous for the World's Only Corn Palace, first built in 1892 to show off the fertility of South Dakota soil; the current palace, built in 1921, is redecorated every year with new murals made from corn and other grains.

Yanktonai Sioux artist Oscar Howe designed the Corn Palace murals from 1948 to 1971 and also taught at Dakota Wesleyan University.

Dakota Wesleyan University, a private university founded in 1885, is Mitchell's institution of higher education, and its campus hosts the Dakota Discovery Museum and the McGovern Legacy Museum.

Dakota Wesleyan's most famous graduate is U.S. Senator George McGovern, the 1972 Democratic nominee for president, whose life and career are chronicled in the McGovern Legacy Museum.

The Mitchell Prehistoric Indian Village, an archaeological site beside Lake Mitchell, preserves the remains of a centuries-old fortified Native American village.