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This announcement was a catalyst for the Black Hills Gold Rush, and miners and entrepreneurs swept into the area. They created the new and lawless town of Deadwood, which quickly reached a population of approximately 5,000. By 1877, about 12,000 people settled in Deadwood, [11] while other sources put the peak number even at 25,000 in 1876. [10]
Deadwood is located at 44°22′36″N 103°43′45″W. [6] The city was named after dead trees that were present in the gulch that it is located in. Deadwood is located in a mountain range called the Black Hills, which are named because of how dark they look from a distance, as they are heavily covered in evergreen trees. [7]
As of the 2020 census, the population was 25,768, making it the 8th most populous county in South Dakota. [1] Its county seat is Deadwood. [2] Lawrence County is coextensive with the Spearfish, SD Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Rapid City-Spearfish, SD Combined Statistical Area.
This is a list of places incorporated in the U.S. state of South Dakota as cities. Municipalities in South Dakota can also be incorporated as towns. South Dakota has one incorporated village, Wentworth, Lake County. [1] There are 310 municipalities.
This was a Black Hills mining camp, more or less in the same area as Garden City (Maitland), Carbonate Camp and Grizzly Gulch, apparently in area north and west of Deadwood and Lead. Lookout: Pennington: c. 1884-c. 1890: Neglected: The residential community of Fort Lookout.
From there it passes several miles north and east of the tourist town of Deadwood before entering Meade County, going just to the west of Sturgis. Another concurrency is with South Dakota Highway 34 (SD 34) from exit 23 at Whitewood to exit 30, the west exit of Sturgis, where there starts a concurrency with SD 79.
U.S. Route 85 Truck (Lead–Deadwood, South Dakota) This page was last edited on 20 June 2016, at 20:00 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
South Dakota is the 17th-largest by area, but the fifth-least populous, and the fifth-least densely populated of the 50 United States. Pierre is the state capital , and Sioux Falls , with a population of about 213,900, is South Dakota's most populous city .