Custer
Custer is a city in the southern Black Hills of South Dakota, the first city founded in the region. The city lines were laid out by the notorious Al Swearengen who was portrayed in the popular HBO series, Deadwood.
Photo: Posi66, Public domain.- Type: Town with 1,980 residents
- Description: city in and county seat of Custer County, South Dakota, United States
- Also known as: “Camp Collins”, “Custer (Dakota del Sur)”, “Custer City”, “Custer, SD”, “Custer, South Dakota”, “Stonewall”, and “كستر (داكوتا الجنوبية)”
- Postal code: 57730
Custer
- Categories: city in the United States, county seat, and locality
- Location: City of Custer, Custer, Badlands and Black Hills, South Dakota, Great Plains, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
43.7667° or 43° 45′ 60″ north
Longitude
-103.5988° or 103° 35′ 56″ west
Population
1,980
Elevation
5,315 feet (1,620 metres)
UN/LOCODE
US USE
Open location code
85MRQC82+MF
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Custer” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كستر”
- Basque: “Custer”
- Catalan: “Custer”
- Cebuano: “Custer”
- Chechen: “Кастер”
- Chinese: “卡斯特”
- Czech: “Custer”
- Dagbani: “Custer”
- Danish: “Custer”
- Dutch: “Custer”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كستر”
- Esperanto: “Custer”
- French: “Custer”
- German: “Custer”
- Gilaki: “کاستر (نسايي داکؤتا)”
- Gilaki: “کاستر”
- Haitian: “Custer, Dakota disid”
- Haitian: “Custer”
- Hindi: “कस्टर, दक्षिण डकोटा”
- Hindi: “कस्टर”
- Hungarian: “Custer”
- Irish: “Custer”
- Italian: “Custer”
- Japanese: “カスター（サウスダコタ州）”
- Ladin: “Custer”
- Malagasy: “Custer, South Dakota”
- Malagasy: “Custer”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Custer”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Custer”
- Norwegian: “Custer”
- Persian: “کاستر، داکوتای جنوبی”
- Persian: “کاستر”
- Polish: “Custer”
- Portuguese: “Custer”
- Russian: “Кастер”
- Serbian: “Кастер”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Custer, South Dakota”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Custer”
- Slovak: “Custer”
- Slovenian: “Custer”
- South Azerbaijani: “کاستر، گونئی داکوتا”
- Spanish: “Custer”
- Swedish: “Custer, South Dakota”
- Swedish: “Custer”
- Tatar: “Кастер”
- Ukrainian: “Кастер”
- Urdu: “کیسٹر، جنوبی ڈکوٹا”
- Urdu: “کیسٹر”
- Uzbek: “Custer”
- Volapük: “Custer”
- Waray (Philippines): “Custer, South Dakota”
- Waray (Philippines): “Custer”
- Welsh: “Custer, De Dakota”
- Welsh: “Custer”
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