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Sylvan Lake is a lake located in Custer State Park, in the Black Hills of South Dakota, United States. It was created in 1891 when Theodore Reder built a dam (the Sylvan Lake Water Dam) across Sunday Gulch Creek. [1] The lake area offers picnic places, rock climbing, small rental boats, swimming, and hiking trails.
The center is named for South Dakota Governor and Senator Peter Norbeck. Many of the park's naturalist programs begin at the center. Badger Hole, also known as Badger Clark Historical Site, was the home of Charles Badger Clark (1883–1957), who was named South Dakota's first Poet Laureate in 1937 [8] and was noted for his cowboy poetry. The ...
This is a list of lakes in South Dakota. Swimming, fishing, and/or boating are permitted in some of these lakes, but not all. Swimming, fishing, and/or boating are permitted in some of these lakes, but not all.
The memorial is to be the centerpiece of an educational/cultural center, to include a satellite campus of the University of South Dakota, with a classroom building and residence hall, made possible by a US$ 2.5 million donation in 2007 from T. Denny Sanford, a philanthropist from Sioux Falls, South Dakota. It is called the Indian University of ...
Tallent became the first schoolteacher in the Black Hills, published a book on the area's history, and served the Rapid City Board of Education. In 1924, a group erected a granite monument in her honor at the Gordon Stockade site. [26] [30] The South Dakota State Historical Society placed a historical marker at the site of the stockade in 1971. [2]
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The Black Hills Flood of 1972, also known as the Rapid City Flood, was the most detrimental flood in South Dakota history, and one of the deadliest floods in U.S. history. The flood took place on June 9–10, 1972 [ 1 ] in the Black Hills of Western South Dakota. 15 inches (380 mm) of rain in a small area over the Black Hills caused Rapid Creek ...
The Legion Lake Fire was a wildfire that occurred in December 2017 in the Black Hills of South Dakota, United States. It burned 53,875 acres (218.02 km 2 ), making it the third-largest wildfire in South Dakota [ 1 ] and Black Hills history. [ 2 ]