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Photo of mine remains at Golden West, South Dakota Gold Hill: Lawrence: According to Parker and Lambert's Black Hills Ghost Towns, the location of Gold Hill was described as being laid out in 1877 on Whitewood Creek, at the mouth of the Reno Creek, about 3 miles (4.8 km) above Kirk. Gopher: Corson: 1918-1940s? Barren
Location of Meade County in South Dakota. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Meade County, South Dakota. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Meade County, South Dakota, United States. The locations of National Register ...
Flintstones Bedrock City was a 62 acres (25 ha) theme park and campground in Custer, South Dakota in the Black Hills which featured buildings and characters inspired by The Flintstones television series. The facility opened in 1966 and closed in 2015. [1] The campground was reopened as Buffalo Ridge Campground Resort.
Sturgis is a city in Meade County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 7,020 as of the 2020 census . [ 6 ] It is the county seat of Meade County [ 7 ] and is named after Samuel D. Sturgis , a Union general during the Civil War .
As of the 2020 census, the population was 29,852, making it the 6th most populous county in South Dakota. [1] Its county seat is Sturgis . [ 2 ] The county was created in 1889 and named for Fort Meade, which was garrisoned as a United States military post in the area in 1878 and itself named for General George Meade .
Pactola Lake is the largest and deepest reservoir in the Black Hills, located 15 miles (24 km) west of Rapid City, South Dakota, United States.Constructed in 1952, the dam and waters are managed by the Bureau of Reclamation, with the surrounding land managed by the US Forest Service as part of Black Hills National Forest, which operates a visitor center located on the south side of the dam. [2]
Bear Butte is a geological laccolith feature located near Sturgis, South Dakota, United States, that was established as a State Park in 1961. An important landmark and religious site for the Plains Indians tribes long before Europeans reached South Dakota, Bear Butte is called Matȟó Pahá, [2] or Bear Mountain, by the Lakota, or Sioux.
Piedmont is located in part of an area referred to as the Red Valley, or Race Track, a rock layer in the Spearfish Formation, which forms a valley circling the Black Hills. [10] [11] It is mostly red shale with beds of gypsum. Piedmont lies west of Interstate 90, north of Summerset, east of the Black Hills National Forest, and south of Elk Creek.