Chancellor, South Dakota Chancellor, South Dakota Chancellor is a town in Turner County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 264 at the 2010 census. The community was named for Otto von Bismarck, a 19th-century German chancellor. Chancellor is located at . According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all of it land. Chancellor has been assigned ZIP code 57015 and FIPS place code 11380. As of the census of 2010, there were 264 people, 118 households, and 75 families residing in the town. The population density was . There were 131 housing units at
Chancellor of Germany as in the Prussian tradition of, for instance, Hardenberg. In both of these aspects, the executive of the federation, and then empire, as it was formed in 1867 and 1871, was deliberately different from the Imperial Ministry of the revolutionary years 1848/49, which had been led by a prime minister elected by the National Assembly. In 1871, the concept of the federal chancellor was transferred to the executive of the newly formed German Empire, which now also contained the South German states. Here too, the terms of “chancellor” and “federal agency” (as opposed to “ministry” or “government”) suggested an (apparent)