SDSouth Dakota
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“Four presidents carved into a mountain, zero raises at the bottom of it”
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Joined 1889 · 40th state · Not yet a state in the Civil War · Central, west Mountain time
South Dakota is two states divided by the Missouri River, farmland to the east and ranching and badlands to the west, with the Black Hills in the corner. Those hills are sacred to the Lakota and were guaranteed to them by treaty before gold was found, which the Supreme Court acknowledged in 1980 in a judgment the tribes have refused to accept payment for. Go for Badlands National Park at sunrise, and see both Mount Rushmore and the Crazy Horse memorial, which are five miles and a great distance apart.
Sturgis has about 7,000 residents and hosts half a million motorcycles every August.
Eat
Chislic
Drink
Crow Peak Brewing
Listen
Shawn Colvin
Bird
Ring-necked pheasant
Flower
Pasque flower
Tree
Black Hills spruce
Grows
Corn, Soybeans, Wheat
National parks
- Badlands
- Wind Cave
The actual state · 2025
- Population
- 935,094
- Land area
- 75,808 mi²
- GDP per head
- $86,248
- Median household
- $77,494
- Joined
- Joined 1889
- Civil War
- Not yet a state
Largest cities
- 1Sioux Falls209K
- 2Rapid City80K
- 3Aberdeen28K
- 4Brookings25K
- 5Watertown23K
Race
- White82.3%
- Native9.0%
- Two or more4.2%
Hispanic or Latino6.1%
Counted across all races, so it overlaps the figures above.
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First blood in South Dakota: blackhillsunion, Labor, $5.
“Four presidents carved into a mountain, zero raises at the bottom of it”
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