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 northeast side of the city, and it is a suburb of Rapid City.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 11,700 residents
- Description: city in Pennington County, South Dakota, United States
- Also known as: “Box Elder, SD”, “Box Elder, South Dakota”, and “Boxelder”
- Postal code: 57719
Places of Interest
Highlights include South Dakota Air and Space Museum.
South Dakota Air and Space Museum
Museum
Photo: Jaydec, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The South Dakota Air and Space Museum is an aviation museum located in Box Elder, South Dakota, just outside the main gate of Ellsworth Air Force Base. It is dedicated to the history of the United States Air Force, the base and aerospace in South Dakota.
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″ northLongitude
-103.0646° or 103° 3′ 53″ westPopulation
11,700Elevation
3,035 feet (925 metres)United Nations Location Code
US B2XOpen location code
85PR4WMP+85OpenStreetMap ID
node 3510949764OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Box Elder” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بوكس إلدر (داكوتا الجنوبية)”
- Arabic: “بوكس إلدر”
- Basque: “Box Elder”
- Bengali: “বক্স এল্ডার”
- Catalan: “Box Elder”
- Cebuano: “Box Elder”
- Chechen: “Бокс-Элдер”
- Chinese: “Box Elder”
- 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-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 (Dakota del Sur)”
- 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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Notable Places Nearby
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