Lead
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.- Type: Town with 3,120 residents
- Description: city in Lawrence County, South Dakota, United States of America
- Also known as: “Lead (Dakota del Sur)”, “Lead City”, “Lead, SD”, “Lead, South Dakota”, “Mile High City”, and “Washington”
- Postal code: 57754
Places of Interest
Highlights: Sanford Underground Research Facility.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Deadwood and Central City.
Lead
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: City of Lead, Lawrence, Badlands and Black Hills, South Dakota, Great Plains, United States, North America
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Latitude
44.3522° or 44° 21′ 8″ north
Longitude
-103.7652° or 103° 45′ 55″ west
Population
3,120
Elevation
5,213 feet (1,589 metres)
UN/LOCODE
US LDQ
Open location code
85PR962M+VW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Lead” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ليد”
- Basque: “Lead”
- Catalan: “Lead”
- Cebuano: “Lead”
- Chechen: “Лид”
- Chinese: “莱德”
- Dagbani: “Lead”
- Danish: “Lead”
- Dutch: “Lead”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ليد”
- Finnish: “Lead”
- French: “Lead”
- Gilaki: “لیت (نسايي داکؤتا)”
- Gilaki: “لیت”
- Haitian: “Lead, Dakota disid”
- Haitian: “Lead”
- Irish: “Lead”
- Italian: “Lead”
- Japanese: “リード”
- Ladin: “Lead”
- Luxembourgish: “Lead”
- Malagasy: “Lead, South Dakota”
- Malagasy: “Lead”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lead”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lead”
- Norwegian: “Lead”
- Persian: “لید، داکوتای جنوبی”
- Persian: “لید”
- Polish: “Lead”
- Portuguese: “Lead”
- Russian: “Леад”
- Russian: “свинец”
- Serbian: “Лид”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lead, South Dakota”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lead”
- Slovenian: “Lead”
- South Azerbaijani: “لید، گونئی داکوتا”
- Spanish: “Lead”
- Tatar: “Лид”
- Turkish: “Lead, Güney Dakota”
- Turkish: “Lead”
- Ukrainian: “Лід”
- Urdu: “لیڈ، جنوبی ڈکوٹا”
- Urdu: “لیڈ”
- Uzbek: “Lead”
- Volapük: “Lead”
- Waray (Philippines): “Lead, South Dakota”
- Waray (Philippines): “Lead”
- Welsh: “Lead, De Dakota”
- Welsh: “Lead”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Terraville and Blacktail.
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Worth a closer look: Rapid City and Deadwood.
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