Box Elder
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city in Pennington County, South Dakota, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- South Dakota
- Counties
- Pennington , Meade
- Incorporated
- May 12, 1965
- Mayor
- Larry Larson
- Alderman
- Kirk Beauchamp, John Talich, Patrick Schubert, Sr., Steven Bixel
- President
- Michael Knight, Rick Davis
- City
- 14.858 sq mi (38.482 km )
- Land
- 14.834 sq mi (38.420 km )
- Water
- 0.024 sq mi (0.061 km ) 0.16%
- Elevation
- 3,045 ft (928 m)
- Estimate 2024
- 13,887
- Density
- 936.0/sq mi (361.39/km )
- Urban
- 11,386
- Metro
- 156,227 (US: 280th )
- Combined
- 185,036 (US: 149th )
- Time zone
- UTC–7 ( Mountain (MST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC–6 (MDT)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Official name
- Box Elder
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Pennington County
- Population
- 2706
- Area
- 36.040743
- Elevation
- 924
- Time zone
- UTC−07:00
- Official website
- www.boxelder.us
- Image
- Box Elder, South Dakota.JPG
- Households
- 1148
- Dialing code
- 605
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- postal code
- 57719
- Commons category
- Box Elder, South Dakota
- inception
- 1907-00-00
- water as percent of area
- 0.0953
- per capita income
- 23409
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Encyclopedic overview
Box Elder (Lakota: čhaŋšúška; "box elder maple") is a city in Pennington and Meade Counties, South Dakota, United States. The population was 11,746 at the 2020 census, and was estimated to be 13,887 in 2024, making it the ninth-most populous city in South Dakota. Ellsworth Air Force Base lies on the northwest side of the city, and it is a suburb of Rapid City.
Box Elder was named from nearby Boxelder Creek.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Box Elder” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.