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Southwest of Lead, South Dakota, there is still an active open pit gold mine, run by Goldcorp. [9] South Dakota has oil and gas production in the Williston Basin in the northwest, although it produces only one percent of the US total, primarily from traditional vertical wells. One hundred wells produce 1.6 million gallons of oil annually.
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. There are 13 National Natural Landmarks in South Dakota. Bear Butte. Bijou Hills. Lake Thompson. Mammoth Site of Hot Springs. Cathedral Spires. Sica Hollow State Park. Buffalo Slough.
South Dakota also contains numerous state parks, all of which are managed by the South Dakota Department of Game, Fish, and Parks. Custer State Park in the Black Hills is a large state park with over 71,000 acres, and includes Sylvan Lake , Needles Highway , and a wildlife loop featuring a large bison herd and the "begging burros", [ 65 ] among ...
According to the South Dakota State Historical Society's Archaeological Research Center, over 26,000 archaeological sites have been recorded in the U.S. state of South Dakota. [1] This list is broken down by county and encompasses sites across all of what is now South Dakota. Only notable sites are listed.
e. The Mammoth Site is a museum and paleontological site near Hot Springs, South Dakota, in the Black Hills. It is an active paleontological excavation site at which research and excavations are continuing. The facility encloses a prehistoric sinkhole that formed and was slowly filled with sediments during the Pleistocene era.
The Fort Thompson Mounds are a complex of ancient archaeological sites in Buffalo County, South Dakota, near Fort Thompson and within the Crow Creek Reservation.Declared a National Historic Landmark in 1964 by the US Department of Interior, the mound complex extends for a distance of about 6 miles (9.7 km) along the east bank of the Missouri River.
Bloom Site. The Bloom Site, designated by the Smithsonian trinomial 39HS1, is an archaeological site in Hanson County, South Dakota. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1964. [ 3] The site is located in the watershed of the James River. It contains the remains of a prehistoric fortified site, which was last inhabited about 1000 CE.
The Mitchell Site, designated by the Smithsonian trinomial 39DV2, is an important archaeological site in Mitchell, Davison County, South Dakota. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1964. [2] At that time it was the only reliably dated site of the Lower James River Phase (Initial Variant). [2] The site, sheltered under a dome, is ...