BROOKINGS, a city near the eastern boundary of South Dakota, U.S.A., three m. E. of the Big Sioux river; the county seat of Brookings county. It is on Federal highway 14, and is a division on the Chicago and North-western railway. The pop ulation in 193o was 4,376.
The city is beautiful with tree-lined streets and grassy lawns. It owns and operates its telephone plant ; and its light and power plant supplies heat for the schools and the business section of the city. There are grain elevators and creameries, machine shops, flour and tow mills, and factories making gloves, cigars, cement block, and tyre-treads. At the N.E. corner of the city is the State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (established 1881), which has farms of 7ooac. for teaching and experimental purposes, a net enrolment of 1,300 students, and an endowment of Federal land grants amounting to 16o,000 acres. Brookings was founded in 1879, and incorporated in 1883. A commission form of govern ment was adopted in 192o.