Custer, South Dakota Custer, South Dakota Location in Custer County and the state of South Dakota Location in Custer County and the state of South Dakota State South Dakota County Custer Website City of Custer Custer is a town/city in Custer County, South Dakota, United States.
It is the governmental center of county of Custer County. Oxen-drawn freight team entering Custer in 1876 Custer is generally considered[by whom?] to be the earliest town established by European Americans in the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming.
Colonel George Armstrong Custer, a discernment which initiated the Black Hills Gold Rush. In 1875 trespassing gold-boomers titled their settlement Stonewall (after the Confederate general, Stonewall Jackson), but it was retitled for Custer. Almost abandoned in 1876 after word of the much larger gold strikes in Deadwood Gulch spread, Custer later became an established city. Custer has had a lesser population and been less wealthy than the Northern Hills metros/cities of Deadwood and Lead.
In addition to gold, Custer and other metros/cities based their economies on the extraction of industrialized minerals, which are still meaningful to the county-wide economy.
Custer claims to have the widest Main Street in the United States.
Custer annually observes a "Gold Discovery Days" celebration and festivities over the last full weekend of July.
This tradition tourism event jubilates the discernment of gold by the Custer expedition in close-by French Creek and the subsequent beginning of the town. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 2.54 square miles (6.58 km2), of which, 2.53 square miles (6.55 km2) is territory and 0.01 square miles (0.03 km2) is water. Custer has been assigned the ZIP code 57730 and the FIPS place code 15140.
Custer has a humid continental climate (Koppen Dfb) with summers featuring very warm afternoons and cool mornings, and cold, extremely variable winters.
For instance, January 19 of 1963 saw the coldest temperature ever of 43 F or 41.7 C, yet in just over two weeks on February 5, Custer reached 65 F or 18.3 C.
The coldest month has been January 1957, which averaged 9.7 F ( 12.4 C) and encompassed twenty-two mornings reaching 0 F or 17.8 C in contrast only one morning fell below zero Fahrenheit in the winter of 2015 16.
On average the first temperature of 0 F ( 17.8 C) will occur around November 25, and the last around March 8, whilst the corresponding window for freezing temperatures is from September 6 to June 2, allowing a frost-free season of only ninety-five days.
Snowfall averages 55.9 inches or 1.42 metres, and has ranged from 93.3 inches (2.37 m) between July 1998 and June 1999, down to 15.9 inches (0.40 m) amid the very mild and dry winter of 1933 34.
The most snow on the ground in Custer has been 27 inches (0.69 m) on April 15, 1927.
Custer's altitude makes summers much milder than in the Great Plains proper: only seven afternoons rise above 90 F or 32.2 C and 100 F or 37.8 C has been reached only once in 1954.
The transitional spring season is similarly variable to the winter: as much as 50.0 inches (1.27 m) of snow fell in April 1920 the snowiest month on record but 70 F or 21.1 C has been reached as early as March 15 of 2003 and 80 F or 26.7 C as early as April 21, 1989.
Most rain falls from spring and early summer thunderstorms: of the 19.65 inches or 499.1 millimetres of rain expected each year, 11.20 inches (284.5 mm) can be expected from April to July.
May 1978 with 8.81 inches (223.8 mm) has been the wettest month, while the wettest calendar year has been 1998 with 27.11 inches (688.6 mm) and the driest 1916 with 9.27 inches (235.5 mm).
Climate data for Custer, South Dakota (elevation 5,480 feet or 1,670 metres) Average high F ( C) 36.8 Average low F ( C) 15.2 Average snowy days ( 0.1 in) 3.7 5.7 5.7 3.9 0.5 0 0 0 0.3 2.0 3.9 3.7 29.4 There were 1,129 housing units at an average density of 446.2 per square mile (172.3/km2).
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 94.8% White, 0.5% African American, 2.6% Native American, 0.2% Asian, 0.5% from other competitions, and 1.4% from two or more competitions.
There were 956 homeholds of which 24.3% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 44.5% were married couples living together, 8.2% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 3.3% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 44.0% were non-families.
40.2% of all homeholds were made up of individuals and 16.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
The average homehold size was 2.06 and the average family size was 2.74.
The median age in the town/city was 47.5 years.
21.2% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 5.1% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 21.2% were from 25 to 44; 29.7% were from 45 to 64; and 22.9% were 65 years of age or older.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 95.97% White, 0.38% African American, 1.61% Native American, 0.16% Asian, 0.38% from other competitions, and 1.51% from two or more competitions.
Downtown Custer, South Dakota There were 825 homeholds out of which 27.8% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 48.6% were married couples living together, 9.0% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 40.4% were non-families.
36.5% of all homeholds were made up of individuals and 16.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
The average homehold size was 2.17 and the average family size was 2.85.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 23.3% under the age of 18, 6.8% from 18 to 24, 24.6% from 25 to 44, 25.7% from 45 to 64, and 19.6% who were 65 years of age or older.
About 6.7% of families and 11.3% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 13.9% of those under age 18 and 13.2% of those age 65 or over.
Although the incorporated town/city has a small population, many inhabitants associated with it and the workforce live outside the town/city limits in unincorporated Custer County.
A steady stream of tourists year round and those thriving to the annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally add much to the economy and cyclic populace of the city.
Custer is the command posts for the Supervisor of the Black Hills National Forest of South Dakota and Wyoming.
It is convenient to primary tourist attractions, such as Jewel Cave National Monument, Wind Cave National Park, Custer State Park, and Mount Rushmore National Memorial.
The South Dakota State Treatment and Rehabilitation Academy is positioned south of town and partially inside Custer State Park.
An 87-bed hospital, Custer Regional, provides general medical, surgical, and emergency room services. Custer is home to the Bedrock City campground, which attracts visitors to its assembly of the fictional town of Bedrock from the animated tv series The Flintstones.
Custer State Park, just outside town, is one of the primary tourist destinations in the region during the summer.
Charles Badger Clark: The Story of Custer City, S.D.
South Dakota State Historical Society.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
United States Enumeration Bureau.
"Custer Regional Hospital".
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