Beulah is a

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...

(CDP) in eastern Crook County,

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, United States, along Sand Creek, a tributary of the

Belle Fourche River The Belle Fourche River (pronounced ''bel FOOSH''; ) is a tributary of the Cheyenne River, approximately long, in the U.S. states of Wyoming and South Dakota. It is part of the Mississippi River watershed via the Cheyenne and Missouri rivers ...

. According to local residents, the population is 33. When the 2010 census reported the population as 73, the highway sign at the town entrance was changed. In 2012, Beulah residents succeeded in appealing to the Wyoming Governor to remove the new sign and replace it with one that proclaimed the population to be 33.

Geography

Beulah is located alongside

Interstate 90 Interstate 90 (I-90) is an east–west transcontinental freeway and the longest Interstate Highway in the United States at . It begins in Seattle, Washington, and travels through the Pacific Northwest, Mountain states, Mountain West, Great Pla ...

which runs concurrently with U.S. Route 14. The town is northeast of Sundance, the

county seat A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or parish (administrative division), civil parish. The term is in use in five countries: Canada, China, Hungary, Romania, and the United States. An equiva ...

of Crook County. Although Beulah is unincorporated, it is served by the

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and has a

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, with the ZIP code of 82712. According to the

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, the CDP has a total area of 0.55 square miles (1.4 km²), all land. Beulah is located approximately 15 miles west from Spearfish, South Dakota by I-90, and a further 62 miles east from

Rapid City, South Dakota Rapid City is the county seat of Pennington County, South Dakota, United States. It is located on the eastern slope of the Black Hills in western South Dakota and was named after Rapid Creek (South Dakota), Rapid Creek, where the settlement deve ...

. To the west, Beulah is located 47 miles from Keyhole State Park, and around 50 miles from

Devils Tower National Monument Devils Tower (also known as Mato Tipila or Bear Lodge) is a butte, laccolithic, composed of igneous rock in the Bear Lodge Ranger District of the Black Hills, near Hulett, Wyoming, Hulett and Sundance, Wyoming, Sundance in Crook County, Wyomi ...

. The nearest

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airport is Black Hills Airport in Spearfish, and the nearest airport with commercial service is Rapid City Regional Airport.

Climate

According to the

Köppen Climate Classification The Köppen climate classification divides Earth climates into five main climate groups, with each group being divided based on patterns of seasonal precipitation and temperature. The five main groups are ''A'' (tropical), ''B'' (arid), ''C'' (te ...

system, Beulah has a

semi-arid climate A semi-arid climate, semi-desert climate, or steppe climate is a dry climate sub-type. It is located on regions that receive precipitation below potential evapotranspiration, but not as low as a desert climate. There are different kinds of se ...

, abbreviated "BSk" on climate maps.Climate Summary for Beulah, Wyoming
/ref> The climate table below includes data from Bear Ridge, South Dakota, a weather station 4.2 miles (6.8 km) southeast of Beulah.

Education

Public education in the community of Beulah is provided by Crook County School District #1.

References

Census-designated places in Crook County, Wyoming Census-designated places in Wyoming {{Wyoming-geo-stub