Lead, South Dakota Lead Lead, South Dakota Aerial photo of Lead Aerial photo of Lead Location in Lawrence County and the state of South Dakota Location in Lawrence County and the state of South Dakota State South Dakota Lead Historic District National Register of Historic Places Lead, South Dakota is positioned in South Dakota Lead, South Dakota Show map of South Dakota Location Roughly bounded by the Lead town/city limits Buildings on Lead's side Lead (/ li d/ leed) is a town/city in Lawrence County, South Dakota, United States.
Lead is positioned in South Dakota, in the Black Hills near the Wyoming state line.
The town/city was titled for the leads or lodes of the deposits of valuable ores. It is the site of the Homestake Mine, the largest, deepest (8,240 feet [2,510 m]) and most productive gold mine in the Western Hemisphere before method in January 2002.
By 1910, Lead had a populace of 8,382, making it the second biggest town in South Dakota. Lead was established as a business town by the Homestake Mining Company, which ran the close-by Homestake Mine.
Phoebe Hearst, wife of George Hearst, one of the principals, was instrumental in making Lead more livable.
Phoebe Hearst and Thomas Grier, the Homestake Mine superintendent, worked together to problematic the Homestake Opera House and Recreation Center for the benefit of miner workers and their families.
Phoebe Hearst donated regularly to Lead's churches, and provided college scholarships to the kids of mine and foundry workers. In the early 1930s, due to fear of cave-ins of the miles of tunnels under Lead's Homestake Mine, many of the town's buildings positioned in the bottom of a canyon were moved further uphill to safer locations. Lead and the Homestake Mine have been chose as the site of the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory, a proposed NSF facility for low-background experiments on neutrinos, dark matter, and other nuclear physics topics, as well as biology and mine engineering studies. In 1974, most of Lead was added to the National Register of Historic Places under the name of the "Lead Historic District".
Over four hundred buildings and 580 acres (230 ha) were encompassed in the historic district, which has boundaries roughly equivalent to the town/city limits. The Homestake Mine pit in Lead, South Dakota Lead is positioned at 44 21 3 N 103 45 57 W (44.350967, -103.765784). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 2.06 square miles (5.34 km2), all of it land. Lead has been assigned the ZIP code 57754 and the FIPS place code 36220.
Lead's adjacency to Deadwood, South Dakota, often leads to the two metros/cities being collectively titled "Lead-Deadwood". Two prominent man-made features of Lead's geography are the enormous open cut, which was used for surface gold quarrying by the Homestake Mine, and the resulting ridge close-by assembled with the non-producing material from the cut. Lead has a humid continental climate (Koppen Dfb) with warm summers and cold, very snowy winters with the typical extremely variable temperatures of the Great Plains.
Its high altitude in the Black Hills makes Lead one of the wettest places in South Dakota and among the snowiest places in the adjoining United States with a mean snow flurry of 145 inches or 3.68 metres.
During the cold and snowy winter of 1993 94, a whopping 364.7 inches (9.26 m) of snow fell and three years later snow flurry totalled 324.0 inches (8.23 m).
However, incessant chinook winds mean that most of the enormous snow flurry melts amid the winter: the highest snow cover on record is 73 inches (1.85 m) on March 1, 1998 amid a storm that totalled 114.6 inches or 2.91 metres of snow (water equivalent 4.12 inches or 104.6 millimetres) over six days ending March 2.
Mean snow depth in January is only 7 inches or 0.18 metres and the median even less at 5 inches or 0.13 metres.
15.4 mornings can be expected to fall to or below 0 F ( 17.8 C), with the average window for zero temperatures being December 7 to March 3; on the other hand amid winter 12.9 afternoons can be expected to get to or above 50 F or 10 C.
The wettest year and a South Dakota calendar year record has been 2013 with 49.52 inches (1,257.8 mm) and the driest 1936 with 12.84 inches (326.1 mm).
Climate data for Lead, South Dakota Average high F ( C) 33.6 Average low F ( C) 14.5 Average rain days ( 0.01 inch) 10 10 11 12 12 13 10 8 7 8 9 10 120 As of the census of 2010, there were 3,124 citizens , 1,420 homeholds, and 828 families residing in the city.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 94.6% White, 0.3% African American, 2.0% Native American, 0.4% Asian, 0.4% from other competitions, and 2.3% from two or more competitions.
There were 1,420 homeholds of which 27.6% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 40.6% were married couples living together, 13.0% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 4.7% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 41.7% were non-families.
35.1% of all homeholds were made up of individuals and 10.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
The average homehold size was 2.19 and the average family size was 2.82.
The median age in the town/city was 40.5 years.
23.1% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 7.4% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 25.3% were from 25 to 44; 31.5% were from 45 to 64; and 12.7% were 65 years of age or older.
As of the census of 2000, there were 3,027 citizens , 1,279 homeholds, and 832 families residing in the city.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 95.74% White, 0.23% African American, 2.25% Native American, 0.20% Asian, 0.59% from other competitions, and 0.99% from two or more competitions.
There were 1,279 homeholds out of which 33.2% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 47.8% were married couples living together, 12.4% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 34.9% were non-families.
29.2% of all homeholds were made up of individuals and 11.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
The average homehold size was 2.35 and the average family size was 2.89.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 26.1% under the age of 18, 8.5% from 18 to 24, 30.2% from 25 to 44, 22.2% from 45 to 64, and 13.0% who were 65 years of age or older.
As of 2000 the median income for a homehold in the town/city was $29,485, and the median income for a family was $35,855.
About 10.7% of families and 12.9% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 15.7% of those under age 18 and 12.9% of those age 65 or over.
During the winter there are two ski areas just a several miles outside of Lead.
Gold-quartz placer nugget, found near Lead.
Dunn (1927-2016), South Dakota legislator South Dakota State Historical Society.
"Population Estimates".
National Park Service (2009-03-13).
National Register of Historic Places.
"Broadcast Pronunciation Guide and South Dakota Pronunciations".
"City Moved to Make Room for a Gold Mine" April 1933, Popular Mechanics United States Enumeration Bureau.
"LEAD, SOUTH DAKOTA (394834)".
National Weather Service; NOW Data, Rapid City, South Dakota "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
United States Enumeration Bureau.
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