Academy, South Dakota

Academy is an unincorporated community in Charles Mix County, in the U.S. state of South Dakota.[1] Academy is located at 43°27′23″N 99°04′47″W.

History

A post office called Academy was established in 1899.[2] The community took its name from the Ward Academy, which was once located there.[3]

gollark: AVX-512 isn't one 512-bit operation per clock cycle?
gollark: Sad!
gollark: Probably memory bandwidth, since IIRC most things only have something like 32 bytes/second even to cache.
gollark: They have AVX and stuff. Not "muahahaha 32768 bits per clock cycle".
gollark: I wonder why this sort of thing doesn't exist on general purpose CPU architectures. Probably just horrible memory bandwidth requirements/accursedly large register files.

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Academy, South Dakota
  2. "Charles Mix County". Jim Forte Postal History. Archived from the original on 27 January 2016. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
  3. Federal Writers' Project (1940). South Dakota place-names, v.1-3. University of South Dakota. p. 21.



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