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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 .
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 properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.
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 .
South Dakota Highway 79 (SD 79) is a 209-mile (336 km) state highway in western South Dakota, United States, that runs from Maverick Junction near the Black Hills National Forest to the North Dakota state line.
From there it passes several miles north and east of the tourist town of Deadwood before entering Meade County, going just to the west of Sturgis. Another concurrency is with South Dakota Highway 34 (SD 34) from exit 23 at Whitewood to exit 30, the west exit of Sturgis, where there starts a concurrency with SD 79.
The South Dakota section of US 14 enters the state from Wyoming concurrent with Interstate 90 (I-90). It passes through Spearfish , Sturgis , Rapid City , and Wall , before leaving I-90. US 14 then passes through Philip , Midland , Pierre , Highmore , Miller , Wolsey , Huron , De Smet , Arlington , and Brookings , then leaving the state at the ...
The Sturgis Buffalo Chip Campground, located outside of Sturgis, SD, began in 1981 [6] [7] as a campground for bikers attending the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. In the early years motorcyclists roughed it in tents in little more than a pasture, however over the years the Buffalo Chip Campground improved infrastructure by installing electricity, drilling wells, laying asphalt, and erecting flush ...
Fort Meade, originally known as Camp Sturgis and later Camp Ruhlen, is a former United States Army post located just east of Sturgis, South Dakota, United States.The fort was active from 1878 to 1944; the cantonment is currently home to a Veterans Health Administration hospital and South Dakota Army National Guard training facilities.