Rapid City (Lakota: Mni LÃÆ'ºzaha? Ot? ÃÆ'º? wahe ; "Swift Water City") is the second most the most populous city in South Dakota and the county seat of Pennington County. Named after Rapid Creek, where the city was founded, it is set against the eastern slopes of the Black Hills mountains. The population was 67,956 in the 2010 Census.
Known as the "Black Gate Gate" and "City of the President", the city is split by a low mountain ridge that divides the west and east of the city. Ellsworth Air Force Base is located on the outskirts of town. Camp Rapid, part of South Dakota National Army Guard, is located in the western part of town. The historic old town "Dead West" is nearby. In the neighboring Black Hills are popular attractions of Mount Rushmore, Crazy Horse Memorial, Custer Park, and Wind Cave National Park.
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History
The discovery of gold in 1874 by the Black Hills Expedition brought a large stream of settlers into the Black Hills region of South Dakota. Rapid City was founded, and was originally known as "Hay Camp", in 1876 by a group of discouraged miners, who promoted their new city as "Gateway to the Black Hills". John Richard Brennan and Samuel Scott, with a small group of men, spread the location of Rapid City in February 1876, named for Rapid Creek who ate in the spring that flowed through it. One square mile is measured and six blocks at the center are designated as part of the business. Committees are appointed to bring prospective traders and their families to be placed in new settlements. The city soon began selling supplies to miners and pioneers. Its location on the edge of the plains and hills and large river valleys made it a natural railroad center that arrived in the late 1880s from the south and east. In 1900, Rapid City has survived the boom and bust and established itself as an important regional trading hub for the upper midwest.
Although Black Hills became a popular tourist destination in the late 1890s, it was a combination of local efforts, the popularity of cars, and the construction of an improved highway that took tourists to the Black Hills in large numbers after World War I. Gutzon Borglum, already a famous sculptor , began work at Mount Rushmore in 1927 and his son Lincoln Borglum continued to engrave the faces of presidents in rock after his father's death in 1941. The work was stopped because of the pressure that led to the US entry into World War II and the large statue was declared finished on 1941. Although tourism supported the city throughout the Great Depression in the 1930s, the rationing of gasoline from World War II had a devastating effect on the urban tourism industry, but this was more than made up for by war-related growth.
The city benefited greatly from the opening of the Air Force Air Force Air Force Base, then the Ellsworth Air Force Base, the Air Corps Air Force training base. As a result, the population in the area nearly doubled between 1940 and 1948, from nearly 14,000 to nearly 27,000. Military families and civilian personnel immediately took every available living space in the city, and the mobile home parks mushroomed. The business of Rapid City has benefited from military payrolls. During the Cold War, missile installations mushroomed in the area: a series of Nike Air Defense sites were built around Ellsworth in the 1950s. In the early 60s, the construction of three Titan missile launch sites containing a total of nine Titan I missiles around Rapid City occurred in general. Beginning in November 1963, the land for a hundred miles east, northeast and northwest of the city was adorned with 150 Minuteman missile silos and 15 launch command centers, all of which were disabled in the early 1990s.
In 1949, city officials envisioned the city as a retail and wholesale trade center for the region and devised plans for growth focusing on civilian centers, downtown parking lots, new schools, and asphalt roads. The construction boom continued into the 1950s. Growth slowed in the 1960s, but the worst natural disaster in the history of South Dakota, the Black Hills Flood of 1972, caused other buildings to explode a decade later. On June 9, 1972, heavy rains caused massive flooding along the Rapid Creek road through the city. 238 people lost their lives and over $ 100 million of property was destroyed.
The flood damage and outpouring of personal donations and millions of dollars in federal aid led to the completion of a large part of the 1949 plan: clearing the area along Rapid Creek and making it a public park. New homes and businesses are built to replace those that have been destroyed. Rushmore Plaza Civic Center and a newly built Junior High School in the part of the area that has been cleaned up. The newly opened junior high school in 1978, with graduation classes that year lined up in both the original Central (housed in what is now the Rapid City High School and community theater) and the new Central. Rebuilding in the Rapid City section is isolated from the fall of automotive tourism caused by the Oil Embargo in 1974, but tourism has been depressed for almost a decade. In 1978, Rushmore Mall was built on the northern edge of the city, adding to the city's position as a retail shopping center.
In 1980 at United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians, the US Supreme Court ruled that the United States Federal government had illegally stolen the Black Hills from the Sioux people when the government unilaterally broke a deal that guaranteed Sioux's Black Hills. The court's decision offered money, but Sioux refused on the principle that the theft of their land should not be validated, and still demanded the return of the land. This land includes Rapid City, which is by far the largest modern settlement in the Black Hills. In 2010, disputes have not been resolved.
In the 1980s, growth was fueled by increased tourism, increasingly tied to the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, followed by another decline in the late 1990s. Fears for the closure of Ellsworth AFB as part of the massive closing process in the 1990s and 2000s led to efforts to expand other sectors of the economy, but growth continued and the city expanded significantly during this period.
Today, Rapid City is the main city of South Dakota for tourism and recreation. With the approval of the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory at the Homestake Mine site in nearby Lead, Rapid City has a great advancement in technology, medicine, and scientific research.
1972 Rapid Creek flood
On June 9-10, 1972, heavy rains over black hills in South Dakota South Dakota resulted in massive flooding in Rapid Creek and other rivers in the area. Nearly 15 inches (380 mm) of rain fell about 6 hours near Nemo, and over 10 inches (250 mm) of rain fell on an area of ​​60 square miles (160 km 2 ). According to the Red Cross, the resulting peak flood (which occurred after dark) left 238 people dead and 3,057 wounded. In addition to human tragedies, total destruction is estimated at more than $ 160 million (about $ 821 million in 2009 dollars), which includes 1,335 homes and 5,000 cars destroyed. Runoff from this storm resulted in a record flood (highest peak recorded flows) throughout Battle, Spring, Fast, and Elder Box Creeks. Small floods also occur along Elk Creek and Bear Butte Creek. Lake Canyon Dam, on the west side of Rapid City, breaks down the night of the flood, releasing the water wall into the creeks. The 1972 Flood has an estimated 500-year repetition interval, which means that floods of this magnitude will occur on average every 500 years. Each year there is a 0.2 percent chance (1 in 500) experiencing a similar event. To prevent similar tragedies from happening in the future, the city's flood plains could no longer be built. Currently the floodplains have golf courses, parks, sports arenas, and arboretum where the environment and business once stood.
In 2007, the Rapid City Public Library created the 1972 Flood digital archive that collects stories, photos, and news of flood survivors. The Journey Museum has an interactive look at the 1972 flood, which is an ongoing project to provide future generations the best idea of ​​how people are affected and the changes made to it because of the loss of 238 lives. It will in the future include the biography of all those who died so they will be remembered more than the name in the memorial.
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Geography
Rapid City is located on 44.076188 Â ° N 103.228299Ã, Â ° W / 44.076188 ; -103.228299 . The height of downtown Rapid City is 3,202 feet (976 m) and Rapid City sits in the shadow of Black Elk Peak, which at an altitude of 7,242 feet (2,207 m), is the highest point east of the Rocky Mountains.
According to the US Census Bureau, the city has a total area of ​​55.49 square miles (143,71 km 2 ), where 55.41 square miles (143.5 km 2 ) is ground and 0.08 square miles (0.2 km 2 ) is water.
Rapid City is located on the eastern edge of the Black Hills, and split in two by Dakota Hogback. "Westside" Rapid City is located in the Red Valley between the precise Black Hill foothills and Dakota Hogback, so named because of Formation's red formation and the way the valleys completely surround the Black Hills. Rapid City has grown into a foothill, with both mountains and valleys being developed, especially in the last 20 years, and fire is a different threat to this residential area, as demonstrated by the Westberry Trails fire in 1988.
Skyline Drive follows the Dakota Hogback peak south near Rapid Gap (where Rapid Creek cuts through the Hogback) to the huge plateau that forms the southern edge of Rapid City today. The Central and East sections of Rapid City are located in the wide valley of Rapid Creek outside the Hogback, which includes a number of mesas that climb a hundred feet or more above the floodplain.
Rapid Creek
Rapid Creek flows through Rapid City, emerging from Dark Canyon above the Canyon Lake and flowing in the great arc north of Downtown. Rapid Creek descended to the southeast as the valley widened. The floodplain of Rapid Creek is largely a series of parks, arboretum, and bike trails, one of the heritage of the Black Hills Flood of 1972. In the north, a series of mountains separates Rapid Creek from the Elder Creek Box, with large settlements of older and new areas and commercial areas along I-90. In the south, the plains rose sharply to the southern extent of the Dakota Hogback to the highlands that divide the Rapid Creek drainage from Spring Creek.
Climate
Rapid City has a steppe climate (KÃÆ'¶ppen BSk ), and is part of the USDA Hardiness 5a zone. Its location makes its climate unlike the higher elevation of the Black Hills and Great Plains to the east. It is characterized by long, dry summers and long dry dry seasons, with short but distinct spring and fall. The precipitation averages 16.3 inches or 414.0 millimeters annually, but historically ranges from 9.12 inches or 231.6 millimeters in 1974 to 27.70 inches or 703.6 millimeters in 1946.
Winter is cold and dry, with December being the coldest month in recent years, with a daily average temperature of 24.9 ° F or -3.9 ° C; However, chinook winds can warm temperatures above 50Ã, Â ° F or 10Ã, Â ° C, doing so on average about 21 times from December to February. However, temperature inversion sometimes produces warmer temperatures in the Black Hills. On average, the highest did not rise above freezing at 42 days, while low temperatures reached 0 Â ° F or -17.8 Â ° C averaging seventeen nights. Snowfall is common but usually not severe; March and April are typically the most snowy months, and the average seasonal average is 41 inches or 1.04 meters, although historically it ranges from 16.9 inches or 0.43 meters during 1980-81 to 80.9 inches or 2 , 05 meters during 1985-86. The large snow cover does not last long, with only nine days on a seasonal basis with 5 inches or 0.13 meters or more above the ground. Measured snow has occurred in every month except July.
Compared to locations in the east, the area is somewhat heated gradually at the beginning of the year, with the last measurable snow usually occurring at the end of April and the amount of rain begins to increase; May snow occur several times per decade. By the middle of the year, storms usually occur in the Black Hills during the afternoon and move into the plains at night. Only April to June have observed the amount of rainfall on a calendar day exceeding 3 inches or 76.2 millimeters, and June 15, 1963, by 3.78 inches or 96.0 millimeters, holding a one-day rain record; The wettest month is May 1996 with 8.18 inches or 207.8 millimeters. However, Rapid City still sees on average twenty days sunny to cloudy and 67 percent of the possibility of sunlight in June. This is the traditional "flood" season for Rapid and other tributaries in the Eastern Hills. The temperature warms quickly as summer approaches.
Summer in Rapid City is relatively good, relatively dry, and relatively bright. July is the hottest month of the year, having a daily average temperature of 87.1 ° F (30.6 ° C). There was an average of 34 days with the highest 90 ° F (32.2 ° C) and 5.1 with the highest 100 ° C (37.8 ° C). Due to elevation and aridity, the lowest point is rarely at or above 70 ° F (21.1 ° C) and during July and August down to or below 50 ° F or 10 ° C on average 7, 6 days. Rapid City recorded an average of nine days of storms in August, but only 1.56 inches or 39.6 millimeters of rain in that month.
Autumn is a steep transitional season, with the first freezing in Rapid City on 4 October and the end of August to September in the Black Hills. The first snowfall in the Rapid City Area usually occurs in October, although higher increases sometimes receive significant snow in September. The occasional cold front moves through the area bringing wind-blasting northwest winds.
Sunshine is abundant in this area in all months except December, an average of 2850 hours, 64% of the total probable, per year.
Rapid City has an extreme temperature drop of 47 Â ° F or 26.1 Â ° C in five minutes on January 10, 1911, from 60 Â ° F or 15.6 Â ° C to 13 Â ° F or -10.6 Ã , Â ° C. The official extreme temperature ranges from -31 Â ° F or -35.0 Â ° C on 2 February 1996 to 111 Â ° F or 43.9 Â ° C on July 15, 2006; the lowest daily low record was -18 Â ° F or -27.8 Â ° C on February 2, 1989, while the record minimum daily high was 75 Â ° F or 23.9 Â ° C on July 8, 1985 and 28 July 1960.
Demographics
census 2010
At the 2010 census, there were 67,956 people, 28,586 households, and 16,957 families living in the city. Population density was 1,226.4 people per square mile (473.5/km 2 ). There are 30,254 units of homes with an average density of 546.0 per square mile (210.8/km 2 ). City's racial makeup is 80.4% White, 1.1% African American, 12.4% Native American, 1.0% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Island, 0.7% of other races, and 4.1% % of two or more races. Hispanic or Latin of any race is 4.1% of the population.
There are 28,586 households 29.9% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 41.2% are married couples living together, 13.1% have unmarried female households present, 5.1% have a home male ladder without wife presence, and 40.7% are not family. 32.9% of all households were made up of individuals and 11.1% had someone living alone aged 65 years or older. The average household size was 2.29 and the average family size was 2.90.
The average age in the city is 35.6 years. 23.9% of the population is under 18 years of age; 10.6% were between 18 and 24; 25.7% are from 25 to 44; 25% are from 45 to 64; and 14.5% are 65 years old or older. The determination of city gender is 49.5% male and 50.5% female.
census 2000
In the 2000 census, there were 59,607 people, 23,969 households, and 15,220 families living in the city. Population density was 1,336.7 people per square mile (516.1/km 2 ). There are 25,096 units of homes with an average density of 562.8 per square mile (217.3/km 2 ). City's racial makeup is 84.33% White, 0.97% African American, 10.14% Native Americans, 1.00% Asia, 0.06% Pacific Island, 0.73% of other races, and 2.77 % of two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race is 2.77% of the population.
There were 23,969 households where 31.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 46.7% were married couples living together, 12.6% had non-husbands female households, and 36.5% were not family. 29.4% of all households are made up of individuals and 10.0% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.39 and the average family size was 2.96.
In the city, the population is spread by 25.3% under the age of 18, 11.8% from 18 to 24, 28.7% from 25 to 44, 20.9% from 45 to 64, and 13.2% years or more. The average age is 35 years. For every 100 women, there are 96.2 men. For every 100 women age 18 and over, there are 93.6 men.
In 2000, the average income for a household in the city was $ 35,978, and the average income for the family was $ 44,818. Men have an average income of $ 30,985 compared to $ 21,913 for women. The per capita income for the city is $ 19,445. About 9.4% of families and 12.7% of the population are below the poverty line, including 17.6% of those under the age of 18 and 6.9% of those aged 65 and older.
Health Care
Rapid City is the premier medical care center for five states, centered around Rapid City Regional Hospital and Sioux San Hospital at Indian Health Service. Other smaller independent medical facilities have been established in the area, including the Black Hills Surgery Center, Cardiologist, Rapid City Spine Center, Setliff Sinus Institute, the Black Hills Eye Institute, and Regional Behavioral Healthcare. Two Veterans Affairs hospitals are located nearby at Fort Meade, and Hot Springs. Emergency medical services (EMS) are provided by Rapid City Fire Department. Emergency medical transport by rotor and fixed wing aircraft is provided by Black Hills Life Flight, operated by Denver-based Air Methods Corp., CO. Rapid City is also home to a number of nonprofit public health organizations involved in surveying and clinical research, epidemiology, and prevention of disease-based local health promotion. The Board of Education and Health Promotion and the Black Hills Center for American Indian Health are two notable nonprofit organizations.
Education
Rapid City higher education institutions include South Dakota Mining and Technology School, HeSapa University Center Oglala Lakota College, Black Hills State University - Rapid City University Center (includes classes and degrees through five other South Dakota Graduate Schools), National American University, Institute Technical Dakota West, Black Hills Beauty University, John Witherspoon College, and several small sectarian minister training schools. Black Hills State University is located in Spearfish and offers several classes in Rapid City. The South Dakota state nurse training program is also based in Rapid City. There are two public high schools in town, High School and Stevens High School.
By 2013, 26.6 percent of Rapid City residents aged 25 years or older have earned a bachelor's degree or higher. This is equivalent to the average level of education in the United States. The highest level of educational attainment in South Dakota can be found in the metropolitan areas of Rapid City and Sioux Falls.
The local public schools are under the school district of Rapid City Area School. There are three secondary schools in the area. They are the recently renovated High School, Stevens High School and Rapid City High School, which is also home to the Center for the Performing Arts. Secondary schools include the newly established East High School, North High School, South High School, Middle School Middle School, and West High School. There are 16 primary schools in this district. These are Black Hawk, Canyon Lake, Corral Drive, General Beadle, Grandview, Horace Mann, Kibben Kuster, Knollwood Heights, Meadowbrook, Pinedale, Rapid Valley, Robbinsdale, South Canyon, South Park, Valley View and Woodrow Wilson.
There are also various private schools in Rapid City. The city has four Christian high schools including Saint Thomas More, Rapid City Christian College, Liberty Baptist Academy and Open Bible Christian School. Rapid City also has a variety of private-grade schools including WELS St. Paul at Lutheran.
Sports
- The Rapid City Thrillers is a professional basketball club that competed in the Continental Basketball Association from 1987-1988 until the 1996-1997 season.
- The Black Hills Posse is a professional basketball club that competes in the International Basketball Association that began in the 1995-1996 season.
- The Black Hills Gold is a professional basketball club that competed in the International Basketball Association during the 1999-2000 season.
- The Rapid City Flying Aces is an indoor soccer team that competes between 2000 and 2006 in Indoor Football League, United Indoor Football, and National Indoor Football League, changing the name from season to season.
- Rapid City Rush is a small league hockey team at ECHL.
- The Hushmore Hockey Association is home to teenage hockey in Rapid City, competing in the South Dakota Amateur Hockey Association. The Rushmore Thunder won the 2010 State Championships for Varsity, Junior Varsity, and Pee Wee B. The varsity again won the State Championship in 2014.
Art and culture
Due to the importance of tourism in the area, and its vast market area, Rapid City has many cultural resources that are usually found only in much larger urban areas. Among others are:
Rapid City also has a large number of public sculptures on display in many parts of the city. The most visible is the "City of the President" - a series of human-sized bronze statues representing each of the American presidents. The statues are located on the street corners of downtown. Five South Dakota artists created statues: Edward E. Hlavka, Lee Leuning, John Lopez, James Michael Maher, and James Van Nuys. These statues are being erected by public subscriptions over a period of ten years between 2000 and 2010.
Twin Cities
Rapid City has three twin cities, as defined by Sister Cities International: Apolda, Germany
Rapid City Nikko City Sister City Association
- Yangshuo District, Guangxi, China
Industry and economy
The Rapid City economy is diverse, but only has a moderate amount of industry. The activities of heavy and medium industries include the Portland cement plant (built and owned for 84 years by the State of South Dakota and sold in 2003 to GCC, Mexico-based conglomerate), Black Hills Ammunition, ammunition and reloading manufacturing inventory companies, some sawmills, lime, computer peripheral component manufacturing plant, and some manufacturers of farm and livestock equipment. Of particular note, Rapid City is a center for the manufacture of Black Hills gold jewelry, a product popular with tourists and Westerners in general. Rapid City is also the only manufacturer of stamping machines used for labeling plywood and chipboard products.
Although most of the gold mining has stopped in the Black Hills and has never been done in or near Rapid City, sand and gravel mining, as well as raw materials for calcium and Portland cement (including chemical grade limestone, taconite iron ore and gypsum) remain an important part of the economy.
The largest sector of Rapid City's economy is government services, including local, state, and federal. Major employers include Ellsworth Air Force Base, 28th Bomb Wing headquarters flying B-1B long-range bombers; The National Guard of the Armed Forces based in Camp Rapid and conducting annual exercises in the Black Hills withdraw forces from five to ten countries; and various federal agencies including the National Park Service, the US Forest Service and the Indian Health Service.
The Regional Hospital Health System Rapid City covers one of the largest expansions of territory in the United States. The health care sector employs more than 8,000 people in the Rapid City area.
Tourism is also a major part of the Rapid City economy, due to the proximity of Mount Rushmore, Sturgis, the home of Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, Deadwood, and other attractions in the Black Hills. Rapid City is the primary source of service for Motorcycle Rally, and Rally demand for motel rooms, camp sites, and other services for travelers during the first week of August means that Rapid City has the capacity to host large conventions and large numbers tourists all year round. Small sights, including wildlife parks, specialty shops, caves, water parks, private museums and other businesses are found in and near Rapid City.
Other economic sectors include financial services and investment companies such as Waddell and Reed, Citibank, WaMu, Merrill Lynch, and Northwestern Mutual. Rapid City is the headquarters for the pre-needs division of Assurant Insurance and Rapid City has a strong medical services sector, and higher education institutions. Rapid City is also a major market city for many states, drawing trade from more than half the South Dakota, and most of North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, and Nebraska Panhandle.
The annual growth rate of real compounds of gross domestic product from the Rapid City Metropolitan Statistical Area is 2.6% for 2001-2013.
Transportation
Rapid City is a major transportation hub for Northern Plains. Rapid City Regional Airport provides flights to airline hub cities in Denver, Minneapolis, Salt Lake City, Dallas-Fort Worth, Las Vegas, Phoenix/Mesa, Houston, Atlanta and Chicago. The airport also has extensive General Aviation operations, including fire fighting activities and medical flight support to Rapid City medical facilities and the operation of the Indian Health Service in Dakotas.
Historically, Rapid City is served by three railways. Currently, the city is serviced by Rapid City, Pierre and Eastern Railroad (RCP & amp; E). In addition to Rapid City, RCP & amp; E serves the Northern Black Hills and runs east to Minnesota and south through Nebraska to connect with the main continental train of Burlington Northern Santa Fe and Union Pacific. South Dakota does not have Amtrak service, one of the few states that does not.
The central location of Rapid City allows easy transport of products to both beaches, and trucking is the main business activity in the city. Better relationships with Denver and I-80 in the south, through the Heartland Expressway being built will mainly benefit local trucks.
Infrastructure
- Interstate 90 is the main east-west route for Rapid City. Rapid City is served by a series of 7 exits. I-90 glide on the north side of Rapid City. South Dakota DOT has reconstructed most of these exchanges in the last five years.
- Interstate 190 is an Interstate propeller connecting downtown Rapid City to Interstate 90.
- US Highway 16 is the main route to the southwest and the Black Hills of Rapid City. It connects Rapid City to Custer and then west to Newcastle, Wyoming, where it connects to US Highway 85 for trips to Cheyenne and Denver. Reconstructed as a four-lane parkway connecting Rapid City to Mount Rushmore in the mid-1960s, the main segment has been rebuilt as a three-lane or "super-two" road in the last decade, to support an increase in tourist arrivals.
- South Dakota Highway 44 is a state highway connecting the interior of the Black Hills in southwest Rapid City, and Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and nearby areas of the Great Plains to the southeast.
- South Dakota Highway 79 is a state highway compacted with I-90 northwest of Rapid City. SD Highway 79 extends to North Dakota. South of Rapid City to Nebraska, Highway 79 is being reconstructed as the Heartland Expressway, a high-speed four-lane highway that will eventually connect to Interstate 80 in Nebraska and Colorado Front Range near Denver. The Heartland Expressway can eventually be extended along the US Highway 85 north to Regina, Saskatchewan, to create additional north-south arteries through the Great Plains that will pass through Rapid City.
The location of Rapid City on the border of the Western and Eastern power lines, along with hydroelectric power from the Mainstem Dam on the Missouri River and large coal fields and power plants from the Powder River Basin of Wyoming makes it one of the points where two national power grids are connected to each other etc., allowing the transition of electricity from east to west and vice versa. Rapid City previously had its own coal-fired power station before Federal regulations forced it and many other coal plants in areas such as power plants near Gillette, Wyoming, to shut down. Ben's French power plant located within the city limits closed in September 2012, more than 2 years ahead of the closing schedule. Rapid City now gains much of its power from the Missouri dam and imports it from elsewhere. The electricity tariffs used are considered relatively low until the closure of the coal plant, which has been progressively increasing in recent years as lack of local resources means massive expenditures to import it from further distances.
Rapid City derives most of its water supply from Rapid Creek and alluvial aquifers associated with creeks, has significant water rights in the Pactola Reservoir located about 15 miles (24 km) west of the city but also obtains water from several springs in around, and has the ability to draw water from deep formations that receive water from recharge in areas of the Black Hills where formations appear to the surface. The heavy dependence on shallow alluvial aquifers is the concern of planners, as most of the suburbs of Rapid City use a septic system for domestic waste treatment. However, water supply remains relatively good for future growth.
Rapid City has a limited city-to-city bus service along I-90, but many charter bus services operate in the area, and connect Rapid City and Deadwood with cities in Colorado, Nebraska and Iowa. Rapid City does have a city bus service with several bus stops and a headquarters in town.
Suburbs
The estimated population of 2013 from the Rapid City Metropolitan Statistical Area (Pennington County, Meade County and Custer County) is 141,131. Most cities and towns in the Black Hills and surrounding plains have a significant percentage of their population commuting to and from Rapid City, and many Rapid City residents work in remote cities. Among the closer suburbs in Pennington and Meade County:
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Famous people
People who have lived, lived, or were born in Rapid City, South Dakota.
- The famous Rapid City people include:
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References
Bibliography
- Hasselstrom, Linda M. (1994). The history of Roadside South Dakota Ã,
External links
- Rapid City government website
- Fast City Visitors Bureau
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