Melham, South Dakota

Melham is an unincorporated community in Clark County, in the U.S. state of South Dakota.[1]

History

A post office called Melham was in operation between 1916 and 1943.[2] The community has the name of John Melham, a businessperson in the lumber industry.[3]

gollark: Stuff cooling down and radioactive decay, I think.
gollark: Not really. I mean, with a big passcode like that, it would be hard to bruteforce it, but you also probably couldn't remember that and would have to, say, write it down somewhere, and the rest of this "lock" thing could be insecure in some way.
gollark: You could get the same hard-to-brute-force-ness with, apparently, a 37 digit base 10 one.
gollark: It's basically just a convoluted way to express a 60-digit base-4 number.
gollark: The important thing is how much y increases each time x goes up by 1, which is the gradient.

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Melham, South Dakota
  2. "Clark County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
  3. Federal Writers' Project (1940). South Dakota place-names, v.1-3. University of South Dakota. p. 50.



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