Lead

Lead is a city in , , United States. The population was 2,982 at the 2020 census. Lead is located in western South Dakota, in the near the state line.
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  • Type: Town with 3,120 residents
  • Description: city in Lawrence County, South Dakota, United States of America
  • Also known as: “Lead City”, “Lead, SD”, “Lead, South Dakota”, “Mile High City”, and “Washington”
  • Postal code: 57754

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sanford Underground Research Facility.

Photo: Sanford Lab, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The , 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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Deadwood and Central City.

Photo: Robbschultz69, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Village
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Locality
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Lead

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)
United Nations Location Code
US LDQ
Open location code
85PR962M+VW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151757918
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5766425
Wiki­data ID
Q584982
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Satellite Map

Discover Lead from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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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: “Lead”
  • 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 (Dakota del Sur)”
  • 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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