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U.S. Route 18
U.S. Highway 18 (US 18) is an east–west United States Numbered Highway in the Midwestern United States. The western terminus is in Orin, Wyoming, at an interchange with Interstate 25 (I-25). Its eastern terminus is in Downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin. US 18, however, runs concurrent with other U.S. Highways from its western terminus to Mule Creek Junction, Wyoming. US 18 is one of the original U.S. Highways of 1926. The US 18 designation was originally proposed for a road in Michigan from Grand Haven east to Detroit. This roadway was eventually designated as US 16. Route description , - , WY , , - , SD , , - , IA , , - , WI , , - , Total , Wyoming In Wyoming, US 18 runs concurrent with US 20 from I-25 to Lusk, where US 18 branches off to run concurrently with US 85. At the unincorporated community of Mule Creek Junction in northeastern Niobrara County, US 18 leaves US 85. This stretch from US ...
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Orin, Wyoming
Orin is a hamlet and the locus of a same-named census-designated place (CDP) in Converse County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 46 at the 2010 census. History The community was named for Orin Hughitt, the uncle of a railroad official. A post office was established at the Orin Junction in 1891. The name was changed to Orin in 1895, and the post office closed in about 1962. Orin was the final place outlaw Doc Middleton owned and operated a saloon, before dying in the local jail in 1913. Geography The community is located at the intersection of Interstate 25/ U.S. Route 26/ U.S. Route 87 and U.S. Route 18/ U.S. Route 20. Orin is approximately southeast of Douglas. A BNSF Railway line runs through the community. According to the United States Census Bureau The United States Census Bureau, officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the Federal statistical system, U.S. federal statistical system, responsible for producing data about the Amer ...
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Mule Creek Junction, Wyoming
Mule Creek Junction is a former community in Niobrara County, Wyoming at the junction of US 18 and US 85. Geography The Junction is located on the southwest corner of the Black Hills The Black Hills is an isolated mountain range rising from the Great Plains of North America in western South Dakota and extending into Wyoming, United States. Black Elk Peak, which rises to , is the range's highest summit. The name of the range ... proper. A Wyoming Department of Transportation rest area, reconstructed in 2007–08, is located on the northeast corner of the Junction. The southeast corner of the site has been occupied by various service stations and truck stops, the last of which was demolished (after suffering a fire - see below) in the late 1990s. The junction is located a short distance south of the Cheyenne River, and is in a typical Wyoming High Plains setting. Several historical and scenic markers at the rest area describe the setting. History The routes have been in u ...
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Gregory, South Dakota
Gregory is a city in western Gregory County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 1,221 at the 2020 census. History Gregory was laid out in 1904. The city took its name from its location in Gregory County. A post office called Gregory has been in operation since 1904. The local paper for Gregory and the surrounding county, the ''Gregory Times-Advocate'', was founded in 1910. On May 8, 1965, an F5 tornado touched down on the town without causing any fatalities. Geography Gregory is located along U.S. Route 18 and South Dakota Highway 47 between Burke, seven miles to the southeast and Dallas, four miles to the west. Ponca Creek flows past Gregory, two miles to the south and the headwaters of South Fork Whetstone Creek lie to the northeast. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land. Climate Demographics 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 1,295 people, 611 households, and 326 families living in the c ...
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Winner, South Dakota
Winner is a city in central Tripp County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 2,921 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Tripp County. Winner also serves as the administrative center of neighboring Todd County, which does not have its own county seat. The nearest airport is Winner Regional Airport. Winner was laid out in 1909, and named for the fact the town had emerged the "winner" as the county's most successful trading point. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land. Climate Winner, located in the south central part of the state, features a climate type (Köppen ''Dfa'') often described as a hot summer humid continental climate. Winters average below the persistent snow line isotherm, and summers average above the Köppen hot summer isotherm. The climate features nearly even four seasons, typical of its classification. The all-time high temperature is , set in 1934, and the all-time low temperatu ...
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Rosebud Indian Reservation
The Rosebud Indian Reservation is an Indian reservation in South Dakota, United States. It is the home of the federally recognized Rosebud Sioux Tribe, who are Sicangu, a band of Lakota people. The Lakota name ''Sicangu Oyate'' translates as the "Burnt Thigh Nation", also known by the French term, the Brulé Sioux. The Rosebud Indian Reservation was established in 1889 after the United States' partition of the Great Sioux Reservation, which was created by the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868). The Great Sioux Reservation had covered all of West River, South Dakota (the area west of the Missouri River), as well as part of northern Nebraska and eastern Montana. Since its founding, the Rosebud reservation has been reduced considerably in size, as has happened with the other Lakota and Dakota reservations. Now, it includes Todd County, South Dakota, and certain communities and lands in the four adjacent counties. Geography and population The Rosebud Indian Reservation is located in ...
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Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (), also called Pine Ridge Agency, is an Oglala Lakota Indian reservation located in the U.S. state of South Dakota, with a small portion extending into Nebraska. Originally included within the territory of the Great Sioux Reservation, Pine Ridge was created by the Act of March 2, 1889, 25 Stat. 888. in the southwest corner of South Dakota on the Nebraska border. It consists of of land area and is one of the largest reservations in the United States. The reservation encompasses the entirety of Oglala Lakota County and Bennett County, South Dakota, Bennett County, the southern half of Jackson County, South Dakota, Jackson County, and a small section of Sheridan County, Nebraska, Sheridan County added by Executive Order No. 2980 of February 20, 1904. Of the 3,142 counties in the United States, these are among Lowest-income counties in the United States, the poorest. Only of land are suitable for agriculture. The United States Census, 2000, 2000 c ...
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Hot Springs, South Dakota
Hot Springs (Lakota: ''mni kȟáta''; "hot water") is a city in and the county seat of Fall River County, South Dakota, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 3,395. In addition, neighboring Oglala Lakota County contracts the duties of Auditor, Treasurer and Register of Deeds to the Fall River County authority in Hot Springs. Geography Hot Springs is located in Fall River County at the southern edge of South Dakota's Black Hills. The Fall River runs through the city. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land. History The Sioux and Cheyenne people had long frequented the area, appreciating its warm springs. According to several accounts, including a ledger art piece by the Oglala Lakota artist Amos Bad Heart Bull, Native Americans considered the springs sacred. European settlers arrived in the second half of the 19th century. They first named the city "Minnekahta" after its Lakota name. It was renamed Hot Spr ...
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Edgemont, South Dakota
Edgemont is a city in Fall River County, South Dakota South Dakota (; Sioux language, Sioux: , ) is a U.S. state, state in the West North Central states, North Central region of the United States. It is also part of the Great Plains. South Dakota is named after the Dakota people, Dakota Sioux ..., United States. The population was 725 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. The city lies on the far southern edge of the Black Hills in southwestern South Dakota. Edgemont is a crew change point for BNSF rail freight transport, freight trains in the Gillette, Wyoming-Alliance, Nebraska division. Nearly 50 pool crews were operating out of the town in early 2023. History Edgemont had its start in 1890 with the building of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, Burlington Railroad through that territory. In 2012, the White Draw Fire burned eight miles northeast of Edgemont. On July 1, 2012, an airplane fighting the fire crashed near town, killing four military ...
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Niobrara County, Wyoming
Niobrara County is a county in the U.S. state of Wyoming. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 2,467, making it the least populous county in Wyoming. Its county seat is Lusk. Its eastern boundary abuts the west lines of the states of Nebraska and South Dakota. History Niobrara County was created on February 21, 1911, of area annexed from Converse County. Its organization was established in 1913. The county was named for the Niobrara River, which rises near Lusk. Geography According to the US Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (0.07%) is water. In comparison to the state of Rhode Island, the county has more than twice the land area, with approximately 1/500 of the population. Adjacent counties * Weston County – north *Custer County, South Dakota – northeast *Fall River County, South Dakota – east * Sioux County, Nebraska – southeast * Goshen County – south * Platte County – southwest * Converse County †...
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Lusk, Wyoming
Lusk is a town in and the county seat of Niobrara County, Wyoming. It is located in the High Plains (United States), High Plains. The town was founded in July 1886, by Frank S. Lusk, a renowned Wyoming rancher, partner in the Western Live Stock Company, and stockholder in the Wyoming Central Railway. Cattle ranching remains the primary industry in the town of Lusk. The population was 1,541 at the United States Census, 2020, 2020 census. The town of Lusk is known for being the county seat of the least populated county in the least populated state in the US. History The Black Hills Gold Rush brought fortune seekers to the Wyoming Territory. Within two years, the Cheyenne–Black Hills Stage Route and Rawhide Buttes and Running Water Stage Stations, stage coach route between Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Deadwood, South Dakota, delivered freight, including salt pork and whiskey. The boom also brought armored stage coaches and gold bricks, along with Indians and thieves.Benedict, Jeff. ''N ...
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Interstate 25 In Wyoming
Interstate 25 (I-25) is a part of the Interstate Highway System that runs from Las Cruces, New Mexico, to Buffalo, Wyoming. In Wyoming, the Interstate Highway runs from the Colorado state line near Cheyenne, Wyoming, Cheyenne north to its national terminus at Interstate 90 in Wyoming, I-90 near Buffalo. I-25 connects Wyoming's largest city and capital, Cheyenne, with its second largest city, Casper, Wyoming, Casper, and the smaller communities of Wheatland, Wyoming, Wheatland, Douglas, Wyoming, Douglas, and Buffalo. The highway also connects those cities with Denver, Colorado, Denver and Billings, Montana, Billings via I-90. I-25 concurrency (road), runs concurrently with U.S. Route 87 in Wyoming, U.S. Route 87 (US 87) for almost its entire course in Wyoming. The highway also has extensive concurrencies with U.S. Route 20 in Wyoming, US 20 and U.S. Route 26 in Wyoming, US 26 along its east–west segment through the North Platte River valley. The Inte ...
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ESRI Shapefile
The shapefile format is a geospatial vector data format for geographic information system (GIS) software. It is developed and regulated by Esri as a mostly open specification for data interoperability among Esri and other GIS software products. The shapefile format can spatially describe vector features: points, lines, and polygons, representing, for example, water wells, rivers, and lakes. Each item usually has attributes that describe it, such as ''name'' or ''temperature''. Overview The shapefile format is a digital vector storage format for storing geographic location and associated attribute information. This format lacks the capacity to store topological information. The shapefile format was introduced with ArcView GIS version 2 in the early 1990s. It is now possible to read and write geographical datasets using the shapefile format with a wide variety of software. The shapefile format stores the geometry as primitive geometric shapes like points, lines, and polyg ...
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