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The List of National Historic Landmarks in South Dakota contains the landmarks designated by the U.S. Federal Government for the U.S. state of South Dakota. Arzberger site. Bear Butte. Blood Run. Bloom site. Crow Creek site. Deadwood. Fort Pierre Chouteau. Fort Thompson Mounds.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 September 2024. U.S. state This article is about the U.S. state. For other uses, see South Dakota (disambiguation). State in the United States South Dakota Dakȟóta itókaga (Lakota) State State of South Dakota Flag Seal Nickname: The Mount Rushmore State (official) Motto: Under God the People Rule ...
October 15, 1966. The Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a national memorial centered on a colossal sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore (Lakota: Tȟuŋkášila Šákpe, or Six Grandfathers) in the Black Hills near Keystone, South Dakota, United States. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum designed the sculpture, called Shrine of ...
This is a list of properties and historic districts in the U.S. state of South Dakota that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The state's more than 1,300 listings are distributed across all of its 66 counties. The locations of National Register properties and districts (at least for all showing latitude and longitude ...
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 ...
The Public Land Survey System (PLSS) is the surveying method developed and used in the United States to plat, or divide, real property for sale and settling. Also known as the Rectangular Survey System, it was created by the Land Ordinance of 1785 to survey land ceded to the United States by the Treaty of Paris in 1783, following the end of the ...
Black Hills National Forest is located in southwestern South Dakota and northeastern Wyoming, United States. The forest has an area of over 1.25 million acres (5,066 km 2) and is managed by the Forest Service. Forest headquarters are located in Custer, South Dakota. There are local ranger district offices in Custer, Rapid City, and Spearfish in ...
The reservation occupies the easternmost 60 percent of Charles Mix County in southeastern South Dakota, United States and abuts the Missouri River along its southwest border. It has a land area of 665.712 sq mi (1,724.186 km 2 ) and a total area (land and water) of 684.406 sq mi (1,772.604 km 2 ), and a resident population of 6,500 persons as ...