South Dakota
South Dakota is a state in the high plains of the northern Middle West. It is named after the Lakota (Sioux) American Indian tribe.
South Dakota was admitted to the Union on November 2, 1889. North Dakota was admitted on the same day (see Trivia, below).
South Dakota is bordered to the north by North Dakota, to the south by Nebraska, to the east by Iowa and Minnesota, and to the west by Wyoming and Montana.
USS South Dakota was named in honor of this state.
- Area: 77,121 sq. miles
- Population: 754,844 (2000)
- Capital: Pierre
- Counties: 66 (see: List of South Dakota counties)
- Bird: Ring-necked Pheasant
- Flower: Pasque Flower
- Tree: Black Hills Spruce
- Nicknames: Mount Rushmore State
- Slogan: "Great Faces. Great Places."
- Mineral: Rose quartz
- Insect: Honey bee - Apis Mellifera L.
- Animal: Coyote
- Soil: Houdek
- Fish: Walleye
- Gemstone: Fairburn agate
- Dessert: Kuchen
- Drink: Milk
- Grass: Western wheat
Important cities
See List of South Dakota counties, Governors of South Dakota
Other features
See: List of South Dakota rivers
Colleges and Universities
Trivia
A bill for statehood for North and South Dakota (and Montana, and Washington)
was passed on February 22 1889 during the Administration of Grover Cleveland.
It was left to his successor Benjamin Harrison to
sign proclamations formally admitting North and South
Dakota to the Union on November 2 1889. However, the rivalry
between the northern and southern territories
presented a dilemma: only one, upon the President's
signature on the proclamation, could gain the distinction
of being admitted before the other. So Harrison directed
his Secretary of State James Blaine to shuffle
the papers and obscure from him which he was signing
first, and the priority went unrecorded.
South Dakota license plates are numbered by county, with the first digit referring to the county of origin. Such a numbering system allows one to easily determine where the vehicle was registered. Counties 1-10 are ranked, roughly, by population. 11-67 are numbered alphabetically.
South Dakota is the only state in the United States that does not offer a state-sponsored college tuition program.
Harney Peak, in the Black Hills, is the highest point between the Rocky Mountains and the French Alps. More than 70,000 people hike to its 7,242 foot summit each year.
The deepest mine in the United States, the Homestake gold mine (now defunct), is in the Black Hills of South Dakota, near the town of Lead. It's shaft plunges more than 8,000 feet beneath the surface.
South Dakota is home to the largest indoor, naturally heated, swimming pool in the world. Evans Plunge, heated from natural mineral springs, is in Hot Springs.
The largest and most complete fossil of Tyrannosaurus rex ever found was uncovered near the city of Faith, in 1990. Named "Sue," the remains are over 90 percent complete.
External links
Referenced By
101st United States Congress | 102nd United States Congress | 103rd United States Congress | 104th United States Congress | 105th United States Congress | 106th United States Congress | 107th United States Congress | 108th Congress | 108th United States Congress | 11 November | 11th November | 1889 | 1933 | 1972 U.S. presidential election | 2003 in politics | 2004 US election | 2004 United States Presidential Election | 22 February | 22nd February | 2 November | 2nd November | A Mind Forever Voyaging | Aberdeen, South Dakota | AberdeenSouthDakota | Abington School District v. Schempp | Age of Consent | Alonzo J. Edgerton | America (United States) | American people | Americans | Amtrak | Antilocapridae | Archimedes Plutonium | Archimedies Plutonium | Arlington, South Dakota | August 2003 | Aurora County, South Dakota | Badlands National Park | Baltic | Beadle County, South Dakota | Bennett County, South Dakota | Beresford, South Dakota | Beryl | Beryllium aluminium meta-silicate | Big Foot | Big Sioux River | Black Hills | Bloomingdale, South Dakota | Bob Barker | Bon Homme County, South Dakota | Box Elder, South Dakota | Brookings County, South Dakota | Brown County, South Dakota | Brule County, South Dakota | Buffalo County, South Dakota | Butte County, South Dakota | Campbell County, South Dakota | Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches | Capital punishment in the United States | Charles Mix County, South Dakota | Chislic | Clark County, South Dakota | Clay County, South Dakota | Codington County, South Dakota | Corse | Corsica | Corson County, South Dakota | Coteau des Prairies | Country USA | Custer County, South Dakota | Dakota | Dakota Athletic Conference | Dakota Territory | Dakotas | Dan O'Neill | Davison County, South Dakota | Day County, South Dakota | December 2003 | Delegates to the United States House of Representatives from Dakota Territory | Democratic Party presidential nomination, 2004 | Deuel County, South Dakota | Dewey County, South Dakota | Douglas County, South Dakota | Dust Bowl | Eagle Butte, South Dakota | Edmunds County, South Dakota | Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals | Eighty-second United States Congress | Electoral Vote | Electoral Votes | Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota | English-Only movement | Environment Protection Agency | Environmental Protection Agency | Etymological list of U.S. States | Fall River County, South Dakota | Faulk County, South Dakota | February 22 | February 22nd | Fire balloon ...
|
