Main city: Canton
Timezone: Central / Mountain
Phone type: Landline
Operator: Qwest Corporation

Canton, a city in and the county seat of Lincoln County, South Dakota, United States. Canton is located 20 minutes south of Sioux Falls in southeastern South Dakota. Canton is nestled in the rolling hills of the Sioux Valley, providing an abundance of recreational activities with the Big Sioux River bordering the eastern side, Newton Hills State Park to the south, and Lake Alvin to the north. The city was named by Norwegian settler and former legislator James M. Wahl. The population was 3,057 at the 2010 census. ^source

North American Area code 605 is the telephone area code serving the entire state of South Dakota, and is one of the area codes that was created in 1947. It is also one of a gradually decreasing number of single-state, single LATA, single area code areas. (North Dakota uses only the 701 area code, but is split into two LATAs, one of which includes Minnesota.) ^source