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Sylvan Lake (South Dakota)

tourist highlight Sylvan Lake (South Dakota) · Mount Rushmore, United States · 2007-01-01

Sylvan Lake (South Dakota)
Jennifer L. Sovanski from United States of America. Cropped and color-corrected by Daniel via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0

Sylvan Lake is a lake located in Custer State Park, in the Black Hills of South Dakota, United States.

The record

Date2007-01-01
PlaceSylvan Lake (South Dakota), Mount Rushmore, United States
Coordinates43.8457, -103.56349 (landmark-level precision)
ScopeLocal interest
Sourcesen.wikipedia · Wikidata Q7337114
Added2026-08-21 · source: wikipedia-en

Coordinates are given at landmark level. A landmark-level coordinate points at the structure; a city-level one points at the settlement, not at a parcel.

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Time layers within the surrounding city

One place, several moments in time. This location has 6 recorded time layers between 1927 and 2020 — slide through them:

1927
Mount Rushmore
1927
Peter Norbeck Summer House
1941
Mount Rushmore is finished
1983
Black Elk Peak
2007
Sylvan Lake (South Dakota)
2020
South Dakota's Mount Rushmore Fireworks Celebration 2020

Harvested from a regional source. This entry came out of en.wikipedia rather than being written here, which is why it is short and why it is marked as needing a check. It is published as a lead for someone who knows the place: fill it in.

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