Empire Mine

Empire Mine is a quarry in Unorganized Territory of West Pennington, South Dakota and has an elevation of 5,000 feet. Empire Mine is situated nearby to the locality Keystone Wye.

Type: Quarry
Description: mine in Pennington County, South Dakota, United States of America
Address: SD

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Keystone Wye and Hill City.

Keystone Wye

Locality

Keystone Wye is an interchange of U.S. Route 16 and US 16A located in the Black Hills of South Dakota, featuring two unique structural glued laminated timber bridges. Keystone Wye is situated 3 miles southeast of Empire Mine.

Hill City

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Hill City, in the Black Hills of western South Dakota, is known as the "Heart of the Hills", as it is close to the geographical center of the Black Hills.

Mount Rushmore National Memorial

Photo: ArthurTilton, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a United States national memorial in the Black Hills of west South Dakota. This national icon features the monumental faces of four former Presidents – George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln – blasted and carved from the white rock of a mountain.

Empire Mine

Categories: mine and industry
Location: Unorganized Territory of West Pennington, Pennington, South Dakota, Great Plains, United States, North America
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Latitude

43.94373° or 43° 56′ 37″ north

Longitude

-103.49976° or 103° 29′ 59″ west

Elevation

5,000 feet (1,524 metres)

Open location code

85MRWGV2+F3

OpenStreetMap ID

node 368393341

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=quarry

GeoNames ID

5764580

Wikidata ID

Q49410439

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In Other Languages

“Empire Mine” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Empire Mine (minahan sa Estados Unidos, South Dakota)”
Cebuano: “Empire Mine”

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