MILBANK

city, seat of Grant county, northeastern South Dakota, U.S., in the Whetstone Valley, 28 miles (45 km) northeast of Watertown. Settlers arrived after 1880, when it was made a railroad division point. It was named for Jeremiah Milbank, director of the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad. The city is the birthplace of American Legion Junior League Baseball (1925). Milbank's economy depends on agriculture, granite quarrying, and food processing. Inc. town, 1881; city, 1894. Pop. (1990) 3,879.