Monarch Mine

Monarch Mine is a quarry in Unorganized Territory of South Lawrence, South Dakota and has an elevation of 5,476 feet. Monarch Mine is situated nearby to the hamlet Chinatown.

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

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Mount Moriah Cemetery and Sanford Underground Research Facility.

Mount Moriah Cemetery

Cemetery

Photo: Sue, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Mount Moriah Cemetery on Mount Moriah in Deadwood, South Dakota, is the burial place of Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, Seth Bullock and other notable figures of the Wild West. Mount Moriah Cemetery is situated 2½ miles north of Monarch Mine.

Sanford Underground Research Facility

Photo: Sanford Lab, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Sanford Underground Research Facility, or Sanford Lab, is an underground laboratory in Lead, South Dakota. The deepest underground laboratory in the United States, it houses multiple experiments in areas such as dark matter and neutrino physics research, biology, geology and engineering. Sanford Underground Research Facility is situated 2 miles west of Monarch Mine.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Deadwood and Chinatown.

Deadwood

Photo: Robbschultz69, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Deadwood is a town in the Black Hills of South Dakota. It is rivaled only by Tombstone, Arizona as America's most storied town from the wild frontier days.

Chinatown

Hamlet

Chinatown is a populated place in Lawrence County, South Dakota, United States. The name was entered into GNIS on January 1, 1990. Chinatown is situated 2½ miles north of Monarch Mine.

Lead

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Lead is a city in Lawrence County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 2,982 at the 2020 census. Lead is located in western South Dakota, in the Black Hills near the Wyoming state line.

Monarch Mine

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

44.34248° or 44° 20′ 33″ north

Longitude

-103.70881° or 103° 42′ 32″ west

Elevation

5,476 feet (1,669 metres)

Open location code

85PR87RR+XF

OpenStreetMap ID

node 368393481

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=quarry

GeoNames ID

5767184

Wikidata ID

Q49433452

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

“Monarch Mine” goes by many names.

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

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