Lincoln County (SD)

Lincoln County Radio Traffic Guide

Lincoln County is dispatched via the Lincoln County Sheriffs Office under the call sign 44-1. 44-1 is located in the basement of the county court house in Canton, SD. Radio communications are primarily done on analog frequencies. The nearest digital towers near Lincoln county are in Sioux Falls, or south in Union County. This creates many dead spots for radio users, especially for handheld radios. The only entities that only use the digital system for communications is Highway Patrol, DOT, and other state users.

Lincoln County Law Enforcement

Lincoln County Sheriff is the main county entity for Law enforcement. They are dispatched from 44-1 via an analog frequency listed below. Lincoln County Sheriff also has multiple digital channels but due to spotty tower coverage they are rarely used. Lincoln County Sheriff units utilize the call signs of 44-Adam(#).

Name/Location	Frequency	Tone
Lincoln County Sheriff/Police Analog	453.40000	136.5 Hz

User	Talk Group	Use
Lincoln County Sheriff	22432	Sheriff digital channel, rarely used.
Lincoln County Law 1	22288	Primary digital law channel, rarely used if ever
Lincoln County Law 2	22304	rarely used if ever
Lincoln County Law 3	22320	rarely used if ever

List of County Police Departments and Sheriff:

• Lincoln County Sheriff call sign 44-A(#)
• Canton Police Department call sign 44-2C(#)
• Lennox PD call sign 44-2L(#)
• Worthing Police
• Tea Police Department call sign 44-2T(#)

Lincoln County Fire and EMS

Lincoln County is comprised of all rural volunteer fire and EMS departments. All Lincoln County Fire Departments are dispatched via Lincoln County Sheriff dispatch from 44-1. All Lincoln County Fire communications are on the county owned analog system comprised of 6 analog non connected repeaters. There are three digital fire channels and three digital medical channels for use in the county, but they are almost never used. Lincoln County FD 1 and Med 1 are listed below. All firefighters and most EMS departments do not have staff at stations, they are at their homes or places of work at respond using text paging from dispatch or belt pagers that are paged on 154.445 using two tone analog technology. The cities of Lennox, Canton and Hudson have their own ambulance services. Those services then cover their surrounding rural areas. The cities of Tea and Harrisburg are covered by Paramedics Plus out of Sioux Falls.

Name	Location	Frequency	Tone
Lincoln County Fire Dispatch North	Harrisburg	154.445	173.8 Hz
Lincoln County Fire Dispatch Central	Worthing	154.445	173.8 Hz
Lincoln County Fire Dispatch South	West of Hudson North of Norway Center	154.445	173.8 Hz
Lincoln County Fire Tactical	Simplex	154.3025	156.7 Hz
Sanford Canton Inwood Ambulance Ambulance to Hospital	Simplex	154.325	CSQ

User	Talk Group	Use
Lincoln County Fire 1	22336	Main fire digital channel, rarely ever used
Lincoln County Med 1	22384	Main medical digital channel, rarely ever used

List of County Fire and EMS departments:

• Canton City Fire Department
• Canton Inwood Ambulance call sign 44-9 for first unit and 44-9C for second.
• Fairview Fire Department
• Hudson Fire and Ambulance call sign 44-9A
• Worthing Fire Department
• Lennox Fire Department
• Lennox Ambulance call sign 44-9L for first unit and 44-9B for second
• Tea Fire Department
• Harrisburg Fire Department
• Worthing Fire Department

South Dakota Highway Patrol/Interagency Channels

The South Dakota Highway Patrol has three dispatching centers. The centers are located in Rapid City, Pierre, and Huron. The Lincoln County area troopers are is dispatched from the Pierre Center. The highway patrol in South Dakota is divided into Squadrons or Squads. The Sioux Falls squad serves from the Minnehaha county line on the west side to the Minnesota border on the east on the southern Border of Lincoln and Union Counties to Just north of the Minnehaha county line up into Moody County. SD HP utilizes the South Dakota State Digital System for their communications. See the table below for further info. South Dakota also has interagency talk groups that are programmed into all radios. Any department or entity can use these channels to talk between themselves. These will also be listed below. Lastly the HP car to car channels will be listed...be advised these are mainly encrypted.

User	Talk Group	Area
SRC Sioux Falls	48	West Minnehaha County line to Minnesota Border
Sioux Falls INT	816	West Minnehaha County line to Minnesota Border
SRC Vermillion	112	Iowa/Nebraska border west to Bon Homme Co and north to Lincoln County.
INT Vermillion	880	Iowa/Nebraska border west to Bon Homme Co and north to Lincoln County.
Sioux Falls INT	816	West Minnehaha County line to Minnesota Border
HP Sioux Falls Car-car	3792	West Minnehaha County line to Minnesota Border
HP Vermillion Car-car	3824	Iowa/Nebraska border west to Bon Homme Co and north to Lincoln County.

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