WebState flag of South Dakota Location of South Dakota on the U.S. map 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. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by …

WebSturgis is a city in Meade County, South Dakota, United States.The population was 7,020 as of the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Meade County and is named after Samuel D. Sturgis, a Union general during the Civil War.. Sturgis is notable as the location of one of the largest annual motorcycle events in the world: the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, which lasts …

WebThe Lakota (pronounced ; Lakota: Lakȟóta/Lakhóta) are a Native American people. Also known as the Teton Sioux (from Thítȟuŋwaŋ), they are one of the three prominent subcultures of the Sioux people. Their current lands are in North and South Dakota.They speak Lakȟótiyapi—the Lakota language, the westernmost of three closely related …

WebGrand Forks is the third-largest city in the state of North Dakota (after Fargo and Bismarck) and the county seat of Grand Forks County.According to the 2020 census, the city's population was 59,166. Grand Forks, along with its twin city of East Grand Forks, Minnesota, forms the center of the Grand Forks, ND-MN Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is often …

WebAs of the census of 2010, there were 1,650 people, 760 households, and 422 families living in the city. The population density 2). There were 867 housing units at an average density of 566.7 per square mile (218.8/km 2). The racial makeup of the city was 97.7% White, 0.2% Native American, 0.1% Asian, 1.5% from other races, and 0.5% from two or ...

WebMandan is a city on the eastern border of Morton County and the eighth-largest city in North Dakota.Founded in 1879 on the west side of the upper Missouri River, it was designated in 1881 as the county seat of Morton County. The population was 24,206 at the 2020 census. Across the Missouri River from Bismarck, Mandan is a core city of the Bismarck-Mandan …

WebThe North Dakota oil boom refers to the period of rapidly expanding oil extraction from the Bakken Formation in the state of North Dakota that lasted from the discovery of Parshall Oil Field in 2006, and peaked in 2012, but with substantially less growth noted since 2015 due to a global decline in oil prices. Despite the Great Recession, the oil boom resulted in …

WebGeography. Fairmount is located at (46.054393, -96.601642) and sits in southeastern North Dakota on North Dakota Highway It is approximately four miles west of the junction of Minnesota Highway 55 and U.S. Route 75.Fairmount is six miles west of Tenney, Minnesota, 63 miles south of Fargo, and 176 miles northwest of Minneapolis, …

WebDakota State University (DSU) is a public university in Madison, South Dakota. The school was founded in 1881 as a normal school, or teacher training school.Education is still the university's heritage mission, but a signature mission of technology was added by the state legislature in 1984 to specialize in "programs in computer management, computer …

WebThe Dakota Territory consisted of the northernmost part of the land acquired in the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, as well as the southernmost part of Rupert's Land, which was acquired in 1818 when the boundary was changed to the 49th parallel. The name refers to the Dakota branch of the Sioux tribes which occupied the area at the time. Most of …