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Meade County, SD
County in Northwest SDMeade County was named after a union civil war general at Gettysburg. Fort Meade, which lies adjacent to the City of Sturgis corporate boundaries, was home to the Fourth and Seventh Cavalries.
Today, Meade County covers more than two million acres, but when it was created in 1889 it included only the southern area of the county. Ten years later, two counties on the north, Scobey and Delano, were incorporated into Meade.
Just adjacent to its county seat of Sturgis, is the Fort Meade VA Medical Center. This federal facility annually addresses the medical concerns of tens of thousands of veterans. This VA facility transitioned from one of our country's earliest frontier Calvary posts which was home to both the Fourth and Seventh cavalries. It was at this military installation that the Star Spangled Banner was first required to be played; later it housed World War II German prisoners of war; and today it is also a national training facility for U.S. Army officers.
Although Meade County is 140 miles from its northeast corner to the southwest corner, it is sparsely populated. It has five organized municipalities. Sturgis and Box Elder are both classified as first class cities, based on population. The other three communities are Faith, Piedmont, and Summerset. In addition, there are numerous other small towns and post offices located in the eastern and northern portions of its border.
Each August nearly a half million tourists descend into the area to attend the world's largest motorcycle rally in the world, Sturgis.
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Towns of Meade County, SD
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