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Maitland, originally called Garden City and sometimes misspelled Midland, is a ghost town in Lawrence County, South Dakota, United States. It was a mining community that boomed during the Black Hills Gold Rush, but was abandoned by about 1915. [2] Today many parts of the area are residential and include Maitland Ridge and Paradise Acres.
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.
The city charter was granted by the Dakota Territorial legislature on March 3, 1883. The arrival of the railroads ushered in the great Dakota Boom decade of the 1880s. The population of Sioux Falls mushroomed from 2,164 in 1880 to 10,167 at the close of the decade. The growth transformed the city.
Sioux Falls takes the billing for being the most populous city in South Dakota, according to U.S. Census data, with a population of 202,078 and one of the fastest-growing Midwest cities. Sioux ...
Sioux Falls (/ ˌ s uː ˈ f ɔː l z / SOO FAWLZ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of South Dakota and the 118th-most populous city in the United States. It is the county seat of Minnehaha County [10] and also extends into northern Lincoln County.
Rapid City is a city in South Dakota, United States, and the county seat of Pennington County. [10] It is the second most populous city in the state, after Sioux Falls.It is located on the eastern slope of the Black Hills in western South Dakota and was named after Rapid Creek, where the settlement developed.
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, [11] is South Dakota's most populous city. [12]
Tigerville or Tiger City (1878–1885) is a ghost town in the Black Hills of Pennington County, South Dakota, United States. The old mining town exemplifies the boom-and-bust fate of many Western towns.