Rapid City, South Dakota

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 12 of 37 shown

• Black Hills Model Homelisted 2004
• Casper Supply Company of SDlisted 2000
• Cassidy Houselisted 1998
• Chapel in the Hillslisted 2012
• Church of the Immaculate Conceptionlisted 1975
• Dean Motor Companylisted 1995
• Dinosaur Parklisted 1990
• Emmanuel Episcopal Churchlisted 1975
• Fairmont Creamery Company Buildinglisted 2006
• Feigel Houselisted 1997
• First Congregational Churchlisted 1984
• Gambrill Storage Buildinglisted 1984

Every listing in Pennington County

Rapid City grew from 939 to 74,703 between 1880 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1893 USGS Rapid quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1898 USGS Rapid quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1903 USGS Rapid quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
• 1953 USGS Rapid City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1953 USGS Rapid City East quadrangle1:24000, 7 printings
• 1957 USGS Rapid City quadrangle1:250000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 269 fires within 5 miles of Rapid City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,014 acres in total. 35 started naturally. 9 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Lakota Homes
• Sioux Village
• Schaeferville
• Gossage Memorial
• Arrowhead Estates
• Twilight Hills Addition

Every fire recorded in Pennington County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Rapid City: 13 producers, 2 past producers, 2 unknowns. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, Dimension, Gypsum-Anhydrite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Pennington County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rapid City in 620 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 469 hail, 103 thunderstorm wind, 17 flood, 13 flash flood. The reports record 5 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in Pennington County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1265333. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.