Editing Gregory, South Dakota (section)

==History==
Gregory was laid out in 1904.<ref>{{cite book|author=Federal Writers' Project|title=South Dakota place-names, v.1-3|url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015027015455;view=1up;seq=113|year=1940|publisher=University of South Dakota|page=40|author-link=Federal Writers' Project}}</ref> The city took its name from its location in [[Gregory County, South Dakota|Gregory County]].<ref name="Chicago and North Western Railway Company 1908 79"/> A post office called Gregory has been in operation since 1904.<ref name="Chicago and North Western Railway Company 1908 79">{{cite book|author=Chicago and North Western Railway Company|title=A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OspBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA79|year=1908|page=79}}</ref> The local paper for Gregory and the surrounding county, the ''Gregory Times-Advocate'', was founded in 1910.<ref>[[Library of Congress]], ''Chronicling America''. [http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85042723/ Record for ''Gregory Times-Advocate''], Retrieved 8 June 2016.</ref>

On [[Early-May 1965 tornado outbreak sequence|May 8, 1965]], an [[Fujita scale|F5]] [[tornado]] touched down on the town without causing any fatalities.