Sulphur, South Dakota

Sulphur is an extinct town in Meade County, in the U.S. state of South Dakota.[1]

History

A post office called Sulphur was established in 1906, and remained in operation until 1958.[2] The town took its name from Sulphur Creek.[3]

gollark: I hope you like maple, because we have a lot of maple now.
gollark: I'm planning to. The alternative is something like building one house per minute.
gollark: It makes 108 planks per cycle, and we get one cycle every 20 seconds or so...
gollark: We can make the bowls automatically too from the stupid amount of wood I keep getting.
gollark: Interesting. Very interesting.

References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Sulphur, South Dakota
  2. "Meade County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 26 January 2015.
  3. Federal Writers' Project (1940). South Dakota place-names, v.1-3. University of South Dakota. p. 62.


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