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A view of the upper course of the Belle Fourche River in Devils Tower National Monument Course and watershed of the Belle Fourche River. The Belle Fourche River (pronounced bel FOOSH; Lakota: Šahíyela Wakpá [1]) is a tributary of the Cheyenne River, approximately 290 miles (470 km) long, in the U.S. states of Wyoming and South Dakota. [2]
The early human history of the Belle Fourche River Valley has been traced to about 3000 BC. The first people of the area were Native Americans who resided on the northwestern plains of North America. The earliest known evidence of human activity in the area dates to the Middle Plains Archaic Period of the Plains Indians (ca. 3000–1500 BC).
Belle Fourche, French for "beautiful fork", [9] was named by French explorers from New France, referring to the confluence of what is now known as the Belle Fourche and Redwater Rivers and the Hay Creek. Beaver trappers worked these rivers until the mid-19th century, and Belle Fourche became a well known fur-trading rendezvous point.
NE of Belle Fourche: Belle Fourche: 5: South Dakota Dept. of Transportation Bridge No. 10-112-355: December 9, 1993 (#93001276) December 15, 1999: Diversion Dam Rd. over Crow Cr. Belle Fourche vicinity
Devils Tower (also known as Bear Lodge) [8] is a butte, possibly laccolithic, composed of igneous rock in the Bear Lodge Ranger District of the Black Hills, near Hulett and Sundance in Crook County, northeastern Wyoming, above the Belle Fourche River. It rises 1,267 feet (386 m) above the Belle Fourche River, standing 867 feet (264 m) from ...
The Belle Fourche Dam, also known as Orman Dam, is a dam on Owl Creek in Butte County, South Dakota, USA, approximately eight miles east of Belle Fourche, South Dakota, along U.S. Route 212. Its construction created the Belle Fourche Reservoir , the Belle Fourche National Wildlife Refuge, and the Rocky Point Recreation Area.
The Belle Fourche Formation or Belle Fourche Shale is a fossiliferous early Late-Cretaceous geologic formation classification in Wyoming.Named for outcrops in Belle Fourche River, Wyoming, this unit name is also used in Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota.
South Fork Moreau River; Cheyenne River. Battle Creek. Iron Creek. Toll Gate Creek; French Creek; Fall River; Rapid Creek. Castle Creek; Belle Fourche River. Owl Creek; Redwater River; Spearfish Creek; Cherry Creek; Bad River; American Creek; White River. Wounded Knee Creek; Little White River; Niobrara River (Nebraska) Keya Paha River; James ...