Resources

There are hundreds of genealogy-related websites to help you with your family history development. We hope you find these resource links helpful. If you have additional resources that you have found to be quite helpful, please share them with us.

• Families of Pennington County
• Records on our site
• FamilySearch
• FindAGrave
• USGenWeb Tombstone Project - South Dakota
• USGenWeb Archives Project - Pennington County
• Internet Archive
• National Register of Historic Places
• Ghost Towns
• USGS GNIS - Geographic Names Information System
• Bureau of Land Management - land patents
• Property Search - Pennington County SD County Records
• South Dakota Secretary of State
• Historical Markers
• GenealogyTrails

Links to web sites that are not part of the USGenWeb Project are provided for your convenience and do not imply any endorsement of the websites or their contents by the USGenWeb Project.

Rapid City Society for Genealogical Research, Inc.
Box 1495
Rapid City, SD 57709

Pennington County Register of Deeds
315 Saint Joseph Street
Rapid City, SD 57701

Pennington County Treasurer
315 Saint Joseph Street
Rapid City, SD 57701
(605) 394-2163

Rapid City Public Library
610 Quincy Street
Rapid City, SD 57701
(605) 394-6139

Religion

Catholic

Cathedral of Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Diocese of Rapid City
Diocese of Rapid City [PDF] (records in the archives of Marquette's Library)
St. Martin Monastery - Benedictine Sisters

Protestant

Church of Christ (Rapid City)

History

1972 Black Hills-Rapid City Flood Revisited (USGS Fact Sheet 037-02)

Brief County History (at Pennington County government Web site)

Badlands Observatory history (at South Dakota Space Grant Consortium)

Black Hills Institute of Geological Research

Cathedral of Our Lady of Perpetual Help (at their site)

Eastern Pennington County Memories (at SDGenWeb Project Archives) - This is a very rich resource which contains histories of towns, biographies of individuals, and information about businesses, churches, and organizations in the eastern portion of the county.

Earthquake History of South Dakota (at USGS) - Includes several quakes felt in Pennington County

Ellsworth AFB history (at Ellsworth AFB site)

Historic Black Hills Floods (at NWS)

Keystone history

Mount Rushmore Lodge 220 (at their site)

National American University (at their site)

National Weather Service's Rapid City Office History (at NWS)

North Western Warehouse Company History (at their site)

Prairie Edge Trading Company and Galleries (at their site)

Rapid City Flood of 1972: Time Line (at NWS)

Rapid City area history (at Rapid City Area Economic Development) - The history is brief, but they have some interesting photographs of the area throughout history.

Rapid City Fire Department (at Rapid City Government site)

Rapid City history (at Rapid City Convention & Visitors Bureau)

Rapid City Journal (at Lee Enterprises)

St. Martin Monastery - Benedictine Sisters (at their site)

Synagogue of the Hills (at their site)

Wall Drug history (at Wall Drug's Web site)

 

 

 

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