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South Dakota South Dakota (; Sioux language, Sioux: , ) is a U.S. state, state in the West North Central states, North Central region of the United States. It is also part of the Great Plains. South Dakota is named after the Dakota people, Dakota Sioux ...

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Airports in South Dakota An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial Aviation, air transport. They usually consist of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surf ...

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Area codes in South Dakota Area is the measure of a region's size on a surface. The area of a plane region or ''plane area'' refers to the area of a shape or planar lamina, while ''surface area'' refers to the area of an open surface or the boundary of a three-dimen ...

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Astronomical observatories in South Dakota Astronomy is a natural science that studies celestial objects and the phenomena that occur in the cosmos. It uses mathematics, physics, and chemistry in order to explain their origin and their overall evolution. Objects of interest include ...

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Badlands National Park Badlands National Park () is a List of national parks of the United States, national park of the United States in southwestern South Dakota. The park protects of sharply Erosion, eroded buttes and Pinnacle (geology), pinnacles, along with the l ...

Black Hills The Black Hills is an isolated mountain range rising from the Great Plains of North America in western South Dakota and extending into Wyoming, United States. Black Elk Peak, which rises to , is the range's highest summit. The name of the range ...

Botanical gardens in South Dakota Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially their anatomy, taxonomy, and ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who specialises in this field. "Plant" and "botany ...

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* Capital of the State of South Dakota * Capitol of the State of South Dakota ** commons:South Dakota State Capitol *

Casinos in South Dakota Casinos may refer to: * Casinos, Valencia, municipality in Spain * David Casinos (born 1972), Spanish Paralympian athlete * The Casinos, an American popular music group See also *Casino (disambiguation) A casino is a facility that houses and accom ...

Caves of South Dakota Caves or caverns are natural voids under the Earth's surface. Caves often form by the weathering of rock and often extend deep underground. Exogene caves are smaller openings that extend a relatively short distance underground (such as rock sh ...

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Cities in South Dakota This is a list of places Municipal corporation, incorporated in the U.S. state of South Dakota as City, cities and town, towns. Municipalities in South Dakota can be incorporated as cities, towns, or villages. South Dakota has only one incorporate ...

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Congressional districts of South Dakota South Dakota's at-large congressional district is the sole congressional district for the state of South Dakota. Based on area, it is the fourth largest congressional district in the nation. The district is currently represented by Dusty Johnson ...

Corn Palace The Corn Palace, commonly advertised as The World's Only Corn Palace and the Mitchell Corn Palace, is a multi-purpose arena/facility located in Mitchell, South Dakota, United States. The Moorish Revival building is decorated with crop art; the m ...

Coteau des Prairies The Coteau des Prairies is a plateau approximately 200 miles in length and 100 miles in width (320 by 160 km), rising from the prairie flatlands in eastern South Dakota, southwestern Minnesota, and northwestern Iowa in the United States. ...

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Crime in South Dakota South Dakota, a state in the Midwestern United States, generally has a lower crime rate than the national average. However, crime rates vary within the state, with some rural areas having much lower rates than in the Sioux Falls or Rapid City ar ...

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Dignity Dignity is a human's contentment attained by satisfying physiological needs and a need in development. The content of contemporary dignity is derived in the new natural law theory as a distinct human good. As an extension of the Enlightenment- ...

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* Economy of South Dakota ** :Economy of South Dakota *** commons:Economy of South Dakota * Education in South Dakota ** :Education in South Dakota *** commons:Education in South Dakota * Elections in the State of South Dakota ** commons:South Dakota elections *

Environment of South Dakota Environment most often refers to: __NOTOC__ * Natural environment, referring respectively to all living and non-living things occurring naturally and the physical and biological factors along with their chemical interactions that affect an organism ...

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Festivals in South Dakota A festival is an event celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect or aspects of that community and its religion or cultures. It is often marked as a local or national holiday, Melā, mela, or Muslim holidays, eid. A ...

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Forts in South Dakota The following is a list of forts in South Dakota. Forts in South Dakota See also * List of ghost towns in South Dakota References

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* Geography of South Dakota ** :Geography of South Dakota *** commons:Geography of South Dakota * Geology of South Dakota ** commons:Geology of South Dakota *

Ghost towns in South Dakota This is an incomplete list of ghost towns in South Dakota, United States of America. Classification Ghost towns can include sites in various states of disrepair and abandonment. Some sites no longer have any trace of civilization and have ...

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History of South Dakota The history of South Dakota describes the history of the U.S. state of South Dakota over the course of several millennia, from its first inhabitants to the recent issues facing the state. Early inhabitants Human beings have lived in what is to ...

** Historical outline of South Dakota * Hospitals in South Dakota *

Hot springs of South Dakota Hot commonly refers refer to: *Heat, a hot temperature *Pungency, in food, a spicy or hot quality Hot or HOT may also refer to: Places *Hot district, a district of Chiang Mai province, Thailand ** Hot subdistrict, a sub-district of Hot Distric ...

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James River The James River is a river in Virginia that begins in the Appalachian Mountains and flows from the confluence of the Cowpasture and Jackson Rivers in Botetourt County U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowli ...

Jewel Cave Jewel Cave National Monument contains Jewel Cave, currently the fifth longest cave in the world and second longest cave in the United States, with of mapped passageways as of May 2024. It is located approximately west of the town of Custer in ...

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Landmarks in South Dakota A landmark is a recognizable natural or artificial feature used for navigation, a feature that stands out from its near environment and is often visible from long distances. In modern-day use, the term can also be applied to smaller structures ...

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List of airports in South Dakota This is a list of airports in South Dakota (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location. It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports ...

** List of census statistical areas in South Dakota **

List of cities in South Dakota This is a list of places incorporated in the U.S. state of South Dakota as cities and towns. Municipalities in South Dakota can be incorporated as cities, towns, or villages. South Dakota has only one incorporated village, Wentworth, Lake Count ...

List of colleges and universities in South Dakota There are twenty-two colleges and universities in the U.S. state of South Dakota that are listed under the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. Brookings-based South Dakota State University (SDSU) is the state's larges ...

List of counties in South Dakota There are 66 counties in the U.S. state of South Dakota with FIPS codes. Todd County and Oglala Lakota County are the only counties in South Dakota which do not have their own county seats. Hot Springs in Fall River County serves as the admi ...

List of dams and reservoirs in South Dakota Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in South Dakota. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being tall with a storage capacity of at least , or of any height with a storage capacity of ...

** List of forts in South Dakota **

List of ghost towns in South Dakota This is an incomplete list of ghost towns in South Dakota, United States, United States of America. Classification Ghost towns can include sites in various states of disrepair and abandonment. Some sites no longer have any trace of civiliz ...

** List of governors of South Dakota **

List of high schools in South Dakota This is a list of high schools in the state of South Dakota. Current schools Closed schools This is an incomplete list of former schools, nicknames, years closed, and additional info. * Agar High School "Hi-Pointers" (pre-1984)/"Chargers" (199 ...

** List of highway routes in South Dakota ** List of hospitals in South Dakota ** List of individuals executed in South Dakota **

List of lakes in South Dakota This is a list of lakes in South Dakota. Swimming, fishing, and/or boating are permitted in some of these lakes, but not all. See also *List of rivers of South Dakota Sources Lake Surveys, Maps, and Fishing ForecastsNortheast South Dakota ...

List of law enforcement agencies in South Dakota This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of South Dakota. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 ''Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies,'' the state had 155 law enforcement agencies employing 1,636 s ...

** List of lieutenant governors of South Dakota ** List of locations in South Dakota by per capita income **

List of museums in South Dakota This list of museums in South Dakota encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientifi ...

List of National Historic Landmarks in South Dakota The List of National Historic Landmarks in South Dakota contains the landmarks designated by the U.S. Federal Government for the U.S. state of South Dakota. There are 16 National Historic Landmarks (NHLs) in South Dakota, one of which is sha ...

List of newspapers in South Dakota This is a list of newspapers in South Dakota. :''This is a list of daily newspapers currently published in South Dakota. For weekly newspapers, see List of newspapers in South Dakota.'' Current news publications * '' Aberdeen American News'' - A ...

** List of people from South Dakota ** List of power stations in South Dakota ** List of radio stations in South Dakota ** List of railroads in South Dakota ** List of Registered Historic Places in South Dakota **

List of rivers of South Dakota This is a list of rivers in the state of South Dakota in the United States. By tributary Minnesota River watershed * Little Minnesota River ** Jorgenson River * Whetstone River *North Fork Yellow Bank River *South Fork Yellow Bank River *West B ...

List of school districts in South Dakota This is a list of public school districts in South Dakota, sorted alphabetically. It includes schools run by the Bureau of Indian Education but otherwise does not include non-traditional schools and school systems. All school districts, that is ...

** List of state parks in South Dakota ** List of state prisons in South Dakota ** List of symbols of the State of South Dakota ** List of telephone area codes in South Dakota ** List of television stations in South Dakota ** List of United States congressional delegations from South Dakota ** List of United States congressional districts in South Dakota ** List of United States representatives from South Dakota **

List of United States senators from South Dakota South Dakota was admitted to the United States, Union on November 2, 1889, and elects United States Senate, U.S. senators to Classes of United States senators, class 2 and Classes of United States senators, class 3. Its current U.S. senators are ...

Louisiana Purchase The Louisiana Purchase () was the acquisition of the Louisiana (New France), territory of Louisiana by the United States from the French First Republic in 1803. This consisted of most of the land in the Mississippi River#Watershed, Mississipp ...

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Mass media in South Dakota Mass is an intrinsic property of a body. It was traditionally believed to be related to the quantity of matter in a body, until the discovery of the atom and particle physics. It was found that different atoms and different elementary particl ...

Missouri River The Missouri River is a river in the Central United States, Central and Mountain states, Mountain West regions of the United States. The nation's longest, it rises in the eastern Centennial Mountains of the Bitterroot Range of the Rocky Moun ...

Monuments and memorials in South Dakota A monument is a type of structure that was explicitly created to commemorate a person or event, or which has become relevant to a social group as a part of their remembrance of historic times or cultural heritage, due to its artistic, historical ...

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Mount Rushmore National Memorial The Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a national memorial centered on a colossal sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore (, or Six Grandfathers) in the Black Hills near Keystone, South Dakota, United States. The sculpto ...

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Mountain ranges of South Dakota A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock. Although definitions vary, a mountain may differ from a plateau in having a limited summit area, and is usually higher t ...

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National forests of South Dakota National may refer to: Common uses * Nation or country ** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen Places in the United States * National, Maryland, ce ...

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Natural gas pipelines in South Dakota Nature is an inherent character or constitution, particularly of the ecosphere or the universe as a whole. In this general sense nature refers to the laws, elements and phenomena of the physical world, including life. Although humans are part ...

Natural history of South Dakota Nature is an inherent character or constitution, particularly of the ecosphere or the universe as a whole. In this general sense nature refers to the laws, elements and phenomena of the physical world, including life. Although humans are part ...

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People from South Dakota This is a list of prominent people who were born in or lived for a significant period in U.S. state of South Dakota. For a larger list by location, see People from South Dakota. Academia * * Vine Deloria Jr., American Indian author, theolo ...

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Pierre, South Dakota Pierre ( ) is the capital city of the U.S. state of South Dakota and the county seat of Hughes County. As of the 2020 census, its population was 14,091. Pierre is the eleventh-most populous city of South Dakota, and the second-least populo ...

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Politics of South Dakota South Dakota (; Sioux: , ) is a state in the North Central region of the United States. It is also part of the Great Plains. South Dakota is named after the Dakota Sioux tribe, which comprises a large portion of the population—with nine ...

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Protected areas of South Dakota Protection is any measure taken to guard something against damage caused by outside forces. Protection can be provided to physical objects, including organisms, to systems, and to intangible things like civil and political rights. Althoug ...

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Radio stations in South Dakota The following is a list of FCC-licensed radio stations in the U.S. state of South Dakota, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, cities of license, licensees, and programming formats. List of radio stations Defunct * KABR ...

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 ...

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Renewable energy in South Dakota Renewable energy in South Dakota involves production of biofuels and generation of electricity from renewable sources of energy such as wind and hydropower. South Dakota is among the states with the highest percentage of electricity generation fr ...

Rivers of South Dakota This is a list of rivers in the state of South Dakota in the United States. By tributary Minnesota River watershed *Little Minnesota River **Jorgenson River *Whetstone River *North Fork Yellow Bank River *South Fork Yellow Bank River *West Branch ...

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State of South Dakota South Dakota (; Sioux: , ) is a state in the North Central region of the United States. It is also part of the Great Plains. South Dakota is named after the Dakota Sioux tribe, which comprises a large portion of the population—with nine ...

* Senate of the State of South Dakota * Settlements in South Dakota **

Towns in South Dakota A town is a type of a human settlement, generally larger than a village but smaller than a city. The criteria for distinguishing a town vary globally, often depending on factors such as population size, economic character, administrative stat ...

** Villages in South Dakota **

Townships in South Dakota This is a list of civil townships in South Dakota and their counties, based on U.S. Geological Survey and U.S. Census data. List See also * List of counties in South Dakota * List of cities in South Dakota * List of towns in South Dakota ...

** Census Designated Places in South Dakota ** Other unincorporated communities in South Dakota **

Sioux Falls, South Dakota Sioux Falls ( ) is the List of cities in South Dakota, most populous city in the U.S. state of South Dakota and the List of United States cities by population, 117th-most populous city in the United States. It is the county seat of Minnehaha Coun ...

Ski areas and resorts in South Dakota Skis are runners, attached to the user's feet, designed to glide over snow. Typically employed in pairs, skis are attached to ski boots with ski bindings, with either a free, lockable, or partially secured heel. For climbing slopes, ski skins can ...

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South Dakota Highway Patrol The South Dakota Highway Patrol is the state police agency for South Dakota, which has jurisdiction everywhere in the state except for sovereign Native American reservations. It was created to protect the lives, property and constitutional rights ...

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South Dakota State Capitol The South Dakota State Capitol is the state capitol building of the U.S. state of South Dakota. Housing the South Dakota State Legislature, it is located in the state capital of Pierre at 500 East Capitol Avenue. The building houses the offic ...

Sports in South Dakota Sport is a physical activity or game, often competitive and organized, that maintains or improves physical ability and skills. Sport may provide enjoyment to participants and entertainment to spectators. The number of participants in a par ...

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State parks of South Dakota State most commonly refers to: * State (polity), a centralized political organization that regulates law and society within a territory **Sovereign state, a sovereign polity in international law, commonly referred to as a country **Nation state, a ...

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Symbols of the State of South Dakota This is a list of the official state symbols of the U.S. state of South Dakota. Insignia Species Geology Culture See also *Outline of South Dakota *Index of South Dakota-related articles *Lists of United States state insignia *State of S ...

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Territory of Dakota The Territory of Dakota was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 2, 1861, until November 2, 1889, when the final extent of the reduced territory was split and admitted to the Union as the states of No ...

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Territory of Michigan The Territory of Michigan was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from June 30, 1805, until January 26, 1837, when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Michigan. Detroit ...

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Territory of Nebraska The Territory of Nebraska was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from May 30, 1854, until March 1, 1867, when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the state of Nebraska. The Nebraska ...

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Territory of Wisconsin The Territory of Wisconsin was an organized and incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 3, 1836, until May 29, 1848, when an eastern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Wisconsin. Belmo ...

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Transportation in South Dakota This article describes transportation in the U.S. state of South Dakota. Roads South Dakota has a total of of highways, roads, and streets, along with of interstate highways. South Dakota and Montana are the only states sharing a land border ...

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United States of America The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 contiguo ...

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United States congressional delegations from South Dakota These are tables of congressional delegations from South Dakota to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives. The current dean of the South Dakota delegation is Senator and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, having serv ...

** United States congressional districts in South Dakota **

United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (in case citations, 8th Cir.) is a United States federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the following United States district courts: * Eastern District of Arkansas * Western ...

United States District Court for the District of South Dakota The United States District Court for the District of South Dakota (in case citations, D.S.D.) is the United States District Court or the Federal district court, whose jurisdiction for issues pertaining to federal law or diversity for the state of ...

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Wind Cave Wind Cave National Park is a national park of the United States located north of the town of Hot Springs in western South Dakota. Established on January 3, 1903 by President Theodore Roosevelt, it was the sixth national park in the U.S. and t ...

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