Box Elder
Box Elder 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.- Type: Town with 11,700 residents
- Description: city in Pennington County, South Dakota, United States
- Also known as: “Box Elder (Dakota del Sur)”, “Box Elder, SD”, “Box Elder, South Dakota”, “Boxelder”, and “بوكس إلدر (داكوتا الجنوبية)”
- Postal code: 57719
Places of Interest
Highlights: South Dakota Air and Space Museum.
Box Elder
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: City of Box Elder, Pennington, South Dakota, Great Plains, United States, North America
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Latitude
44.13336° or 44° 8′ 0″ north
Longitude
-103.0646° or 103° 3′ 53″ west
Population
11,700
Elevation
3,035 feet (925 metres)
UN/LOCODE
US B2X
Open location code
85PR4WMP+85
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Box Elder” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بوكس إلدر”
- Basque: “Box Elder”
- Bengali: “বক্স এল্ডার”
- Catalan: “Box Elder”
- Cebuano: “Box Elder”
- Chechen: “Бокс-Элдер”
- Chinese: “博克斯埃”
- Danish: “Box Elder”
- Dutch: “Box Elder”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بوكس الدر”
- Finnish: “Box Elder”
- French: “Box Elder”
- German: “Box Elder”
- Gilaki: “باکس الدر (نسايي داکؤتا)”
- Gilaki: “باکس الدر”
- Greek: “Μποξ Έλντερ”
- Gujarati: “બોક્સ એલ્ડર”
- Haitian: “Box Elder, Dakota disid”
- Haitian: “Box Elder”
- Hindi: “बॉक्स एल्डर”
- Indonesian: “Box Elder”
- Irish: “Box Elder”
- Italian: “Box Elder”
- Japanese: “ボックスエルダー”
- Kannada: “ಬಾಕ್ಸ್ ಎಲ್ಡರ್”
- Korean: “박스 엘더”
- Ladin: “Box Elder”
- Latvian: “Bokseldera”
- Lithuanian: “Boks Elderas”
- Malagasy: “Box Elder, South Dakota”
- Malagasy: “Box Elder”
- Malay: “Box Elder”
- Marathi: “बॉक्स एल्डर”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Box Elder”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Box Elder”
- Norwegian: “Box Elder”
- Persian: “باکس الدر”
- Polish: “Box Elder”
- Portuguese: “Box Elder”
- Russian: “Бокс Елдер”
- Russian: “Бокс-Элдер”
- Serbian: “Бокс Елдер”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Box Elder, South Dakota”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Box Elder”
- Sinhala: “බොක්ස් එල්ඩර්”
- South Azerbaijani: “باکس الدر، گونئی داکوتا”
- Spanish: “Box Elder”
- Swedish: “Box Elder”
- Tamil: “போஸ் எல்டெர்”
- Tatar: “Бокс-Элдер”
- Telugu: “బాక్స్ ఎల్డర్”
- Thai: “บ๊อค เอลเดอร์”
- Turkish: “Box Elder, Güney Dakota”
- Turkish: “Box Elder”
- Ukrainian: “Бокс-Елдер”
- Urdu: “باکس ایلڈر، جنوبی ڈکوٹا”
- Urdu: “باکس ایلڈر”
- Uzbek: “Box Elder”
- Vietnamese: “Box Elder”
- Volapük: “Box Elder”
- Waray (Philippines): “Box Elder, South Dakota”
- Waray (Philippines): “Box Elder”
- Welsh: “Box Elder, De Dakota”
- Welsh: “Box Elder”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Prairie View Estates and Stealth Ridge.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Box Elder City Hall and Box Elder Community Center.
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