Pennington County

County Gov Records Local Gov Records Other Gov Records Non Gov Records

County Government Records

County Office

Title

Location

County Court

Justices Docket, 1911-1927 (98-032)

V3658

 

Naturalization Records, 1879-1972 (97-051)

V5570-5595

Douglas School

 

Board of Education Minutes, 1956-1976 (PE/32/1)

Box 1567-1576

Register of Deeds

Census of Rapid City and Hill City, 1880 & 1882 (PE/12/3)

MF 1205

 

Poll Books, 1879-1890 (PE/12/2)

MF 1205

 

Western South Dakota Brand Records, 1879-1951 (PE/12/1)

MF 1202

 Local Government Records

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Department

Title

Location

Rapid City

Assessor, Property Assessment, 1940-1959 (PE6/9/1)

Box 671-674

 

Mayor’s Committee on Human Relations, 1951-1955 (87-091)

Box 1866

Wall

 

Correspondence, 1948-1959 (97-037)

Box 4777

 Other Government Records

Department

Title

Location

Works Progress Administration

Research and Records Projects South Dakota Graves Registration Files, 1940 (96-041)

Census Shelves Box 29

 Non-Government Records 

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Collection

Title

Location

Manuscript

Rapid City: Church Women United, Scrapbook, 1956-1999 (H2000-76)

FB 376-377

 

Rapid City Society for Genealogy Research, Homestake Mining Store (H77-020)

MF 1948

 

 

Rapid City Society for Genealogy Research, Mortuary Records (H77-039)

MF 1952-1954

 

Rapid City Society for Genealogy Research, Shelving Journals (H77-040)

MF 1955-1962

 

Rapid City Society for Genealogy Research, School Census (H77-041)

MF 1963-1964

 

Rapid City Society for Genealogy Research, Tax Assessor (H77-042)

MF 1965

 

 

Rapid City Society for Genealogy Research, Probate Index (H77-043)

MF 1966

 

Rapid City Society for Genealogy Research, St. Patrick Catholic Church (H77-44)

MF1967-1968

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Rapid City Society for Genealogy Research, Miscellaneous Research (H79-015)

MF 1975-1977, 1980-1983

 

Rapid City Society for Genealogy Research, Cemeteries (H79-015)

MF 1978-1979

 

Behrens Mortuary, Rapid City, Funeral Records, 1879-1971 (H84-015)

MF 1985

 

Rapid City Society for Genealogy Research, Funerals & Obituaries (H84-058)

MF 1989-1993

 

Hill City Cemetery Records, 1889-1980 (H84-057)

MF 1988

 

Sarah Jane Osborne Papers, 1885-1890 (H92-085)

Box 5510 B

 

Photograph, Rapid City, 1950 (H2000-024)

Box 8533 A

 

 

General Federation of Women’s Clubs, 1907-1997 (H2001-015)

Box 7028 A, 7029-7031

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American Association of University Women, 1927-2000 (H2002-036)

Box 7407, FB 479, 484-486, Box 7406 A, Box 7408A

 

C & NW System Seniority List, Rapid City, 1921 (H87-012)

Box 3748 A

 

Photograph, Rapid City, 1939 and 1977 (H97-004)

Box 6632 B

 

Photograph, Rapid City Flood, 1972 (H97-048)

Box 6821 A

 

Women’s Christian Temperance Union, 1912-1968 (H98-056)

Box 6890-6893 A

 

Postcard, 109th Engineers National Guard, Rapid City, 1924 (2002-040)

Box 8535 B

 

United States Army Signal Corp, Rapid City, 1877-1891 (H74-002)

Box 3351 B

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Postcard, Rapid Canyon Line, 1928 (H86-047)

Box 8535 B

 

Photograph, Rapid City Masons, 1950 (H2000-024)

Box 8533 A

General Photograph Collection (*restricted)

Farmingdale

P012-013

 

Hayward

P016

 

Hill City

P016-017

 

Keystone*

P020

 

Mystic

P024, Box 8527

 

New Underwood*

 

 

Owanka

P025

 

Quinn*

 

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Rapid City*

 

P035-036, Box 4809, FB 106-108, FB 249, P100, Box 6821 A, FB 339, P179, P174, P182, Box 5976, Box 6632 B, Box, 5516 B, Box 5682 A, Box 3822 C, Box 6861 B, FB 339

 

Rochford

P037

 

Rockerville

P037, Box 5333 B, Box 4620

 

Scenic

P037, Box 4620, Box 5517A

 

Wall

P042, Box 4809

 

Wasta*

P042

General Subject Files (Vertical Files)

Air and Space Museum – Ellsworth Air Force Base

Box Elder Stage Station

Dahl Fine Arts Center, Rapid City

Ellsworth Air Force Base

Hayward, SD

Hill City, SD

Keystone, SD

Mount Rushmore

Mount Rushmore, Naming of

Mount Rushmore Publications

Mystic, SD

Owanka, SD

Pennington County

Quinn, SD

Rapid City I-II-III

Rapid City Flood

Rapid City Society for Genealogy Research

Rochford, SD

Rockerville, SD

Scenic, SD

School of Mines

Silver City, SD

Wall, SD

Wall Drug

Wasta, SD

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City Directories

Rapid City: 1914-1915, 1918-1919, 1932-1937, 1939, 1941, 1945, 1949, 1951, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1959-1963, 1966-1969, 1971-1976, 1983, 1985, 1988

Research Room

Telephone Directories

Rapid City Area: 1924, 1947-1950, 1952, 1954-1959, 1961-1964, 1966-1972, 1974-1976, 1978-1981, 1983, 1986-2002

Research Room

City and County Histories

Early Marriage Records, Pennington County

F657 .P4 E12 1972

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Eastern Pennington County

F657 .P4 E13 1965

 

A History of Pennington County, South Dakota

F657 .P4 H57

 

Full name and Index to “A History of Pennington County, SD

F657 .P4 H57

 

Pennington County, SD: Landowners and Residents – 1890

F657 .P4 H57 Index

 

Down in Bull Creek by Tupper

F657 .P4 T86x 1975

 

One Mile of Hell

F659 .H64 G47 1997

 

Gold Gave Birth to Hill City

F659 .H64 W39 1979

 

Keystone and its colorful Characters

F659 .K49 P42 1991

 

The Black Hills flood of June 9, 1972: a historical document

F659 .R21 B62 1972 c.1 c.2

 

Black Hills hay camp: images and perspectives of early Rapid City

F659 .R36 S77 1989

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Gateway to the hills: an illustrated history of Rapid City

F659 .R2 M55 1985 c.1 c.2

 

A history of Rapid City, South Dakota, during territorial days

F659 .R21 K84 1955

 

The Rapid City flood, June 9, 1972: a unique picture magazine

F659 .R21 R36 c.1 c.2

 

Rapid City in retrospect: the settlement that always knew it was a city

F659 .R21 R87

 

Rapid City, South Dakota; the city of seven valleys

F659 .R21 R21 1900 c.1 c.2

 

Rapid City market guide and business survey

F659 .R21 R19

 

The Rapid City flood of June 9, 1972

F659 .R21 R35 1972

 

Rapid City pioneers of the nineteenth century

F659 .R21 P37

 

A riding and walking tour of the West Boulevard historic district

F659 .R21 R5 1981

 

Holiday Greetings from Rapid City, South Dakota, 1919-1920

F659 .R2 R3

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Rapid City

F659 .R21 M5 1985

Newspapers

Caputa

Caputa Chatter

Dandelion

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Farmingdale

Farmingdale Gimlet

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Hill City

Hill City News (1922)

Hill City News (1943)

Hill City News and Black Hills Mining World

Hill City News and New Underwood Times

Hill City Prevailer

Hill City Prevailer and the Guide

News and Times

Pennington County Prevailer-News

Rushmore Press

 

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Keystone

Keystone Recorder

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New Underwood

New Underwood Times

News & Times

Underwood Press Weekly Pictorial

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Owanka

Owanka Bee

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Quinn

Quinn Courant

Quinn Record

Quinn Times

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Rapid City

 

Black Hills Booster

Black Hills Chief

Black Hills Journal

Black Hills Tribune

Black Hills Union

Black Hills Union and Western Stock Review

Black Hills Weekly Democrat

Black Hills Weekly Journal

Commoner

Daily Union

Evening Union

Gate City Daily Guide

Gate City Guide

Guide

Guide and Shopping News

Indian

Indian Country Today

Lakota Times

Logger

Looking Glass

Northwestern Stockman

Oil and Mining World

Rapid City Advocate

Rapid City Daily Guide

Rapid City Daily Journal

Rapid City Daily News

Rapid City Daily Republican

Rapid City Evening Herald

Rapid City Guide

Rapid City Journal

Rapid City Reporter

Rapid City Republican

South Dakota Tech

Weekly Republican

West River Catholic 

Western Stock Review

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Rochford

Black Hills Central

 ochford Miner