title: Topbar, South Dakota
text: # Topbar, South Dakota
  
  Topbar, South Dakota (also known as Top Bar), is a populated place in West Haakon township in Haakon County, South Dakota, United States, near to Milesville, South Dakota and Philip, South Dakota.
  
  ## History
  
  Carrie Ingalls, younger sister of Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House on the Prairie) was an independent young woman, and though single, she filed on a homestead claim in Top Bar, South Dakota. She met there her future husband; David N. Swanzey and his children.
  
  