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Welcome to Custer City! The best the Southern Black Hills has to offer! Whether you are here for a visit or intend to make this your permanent residence, we are glad you discovered one of the region's best-kept secrets. If you have chosen Custer City as a vacation destination, you have Custer City has been greeting guests for more than 125 years. Custer City is the oldest city in the Black Hills.
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2006-2007 Community Profile County Seat: Custer City (established 1875) Oldest City in the Black Hills Elevation: 5,318 Feet Climate: High Low Average Temp: 57.8 F 28.9 F Average summer temperature: 63.1 degrees Average winter temperature: 29.0 degrees Average Coldest Month: 36.2 F 9.9 F (January) Average Warmest Month: 81.6 F 50.6 F (July) Average Precipitation: 20.27" Average Growing Season: May - September
Population Year Community County State 1980 1,830 6,000 690,768 1990 1,741 6,179 696,004 2000 1,860 7,275 754,844 2006 1,872 8,676 760,592
Labor Force Labor Force: 4,110
Wages for select occupations Assemblers & Fabricators, Hand: $10.74
Major Employers Black Hills National Forest: (US Forest Service) 350 SD Career Center - www.sdjobs.org Tax Structure
City Mill Levy Tax: Owner occupied
20.395 per 1,000
Custer School District - (605) 673-4473 Elementary: 1 school, enrollment 305 Local or nearest Technical Institute Local or nearest Colleges/Universities Name: National American University (605) 394-4827 Name: Black Hills State University (605) 923-5893 Utilities Black Hills Power & Light - (605) 673-4455 Telecommunications Golden West Telecommunications (605) 745-3103 Water Supplier: City of Custer (605) 673-4824 Wastewater Local Supplier: City of Custer (605)673-4824 Transportation Major Highways: US 16A, 16, 3 85 & SD 89 & 87
Commercial/Industrial Services Machine Shops: 3 Municipal Services Type of Local Government: Mayor & City Council Housing Average monthly rent for 2 bedroom house: $450-$600 Health Facilities Hospitals: 1
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Custer Senior Center Culture & Recreation Golf course Emergency Numbers South Dakota Highway Patrol - (605) 673-5677
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History of Custer city In 1874, Custer followed by a thousand regulars of the 7th Cavalry entered the Black Hills. The General wrote busily on a flowery report - "this valley presents a most wonderful and beautiful aspect, the like of which has never been seen." Just then a prospector entered the tent and spilled yellow dust under the commander's eyes. GOLD! Custer wrote more busily than ever. A few weeks later the paper blazed with headlines about the new El Dorado. Custer ordered the camp struck, pleased with the success of his adventure. He did not dream that pinch of of yellow sand had started a train of events which would leave him dead by the Little Big Horn River in Montana. In 1875 Custer supported a population of approximately 10 thousand people. The people decided to incorporated to give the town a name. They had a vote to decide the name and two names that were chosen were Stonewall (a famous Confederate General) or Custer for the famous Union general. Because more Union vets inhabited to Custer than Confederate the name Custer was chosen.
Lieutenant colonel 1839-1876 Custer died June 25th, 1876 at the Battle of the Little Bighorn near Hardin Montana.
Custer School
District - Home of the Wildcats
Community Education of the Black Hills
Custer City Hall
Custer County Government
Custer YMCA
Custer YMCA Child Development Center Government Offices
SD Army National Guard
Rapid City Journal
Custer City Community Churches Berean Bible Church, 6th & Harney, Custer, SD 57730 605-673-4074 Bible Believers Baptist Church, Aviation Way (3rd bldg on right), Custer SD 57730 605-673-2498 Custer Community Church/United Church of Christ, 6th & Harney, Custer SD 57730 605-673-4350 Custer Lutheran Fellowship ELCA, 3 miles east on Hwy 16A, Custer SD 57730 605-673-4691 Custer Wesleyan Church, 10th & Harney, Custer SD 57730 605-673-5168 or Fax 605-673-6003 First Baptist Church, 9th & Gordon, Custer SD 57730 605-673-2431 Liberty Baptist Church-conservative, 25129 Harbach Lane, Custer SD 57730 605-673-2863 Living Outreach Church - non-denominational, 34 North 8th, Custer SD 57730 605-673-3926 Our Redeemer Lutheran LCMS, 8th & Harney, Custer SD 57730 605-673-4361 United Methodist Church, Pringle, SD 57773 605-672-7716 Seventh Day Adventist, 641 Montgomery, Custer SD 57730 605-673-5669 605-673-3940 (message) Shepherd of the Hills Wisconsin ELS,. North on Hwy 385, Custer SD 57730 605-673-3733 605-673-5070 Southern Hills Church of Christ, Hwy 385 at Church Street, Custer SD 57730 605-673-3715 St. John's Catholic Church, 449 Harney, Custer SD 57730 605-673-4426
Custer All -Drug, Inc, 38 Mt Rushmore Rd or
PO Box 726, Custer, SD 57730
605-673-3799
Fax 605-673-3615 Custer Area Arts Council, 25255 Stagg Rd, Custer SD 57730 Custer Community Coalition on Aging, 161 Boot Hill Dr, Custer SD 57730 Custer County Housing
& Redevelopment, 622 Crook St, Ste #1, Custer SD 57730 605-673-5548
Fax 605-673-3992 Custer Lions Club, 12123 Silver Star Dr, Custer SD 57730 605-673-4972 Custer Senior Citizen's Center, 538 Mt. Rushmore Rd, Custer SD 57730 605-673-2708
VFW Post 3442, 721 Mt. Rushmore Rd, Custer SD 57730 605-673-4262 YMCA of Custer, 644 Crook St, Custer SD 57730 605-673-5134 Zonta Club of the Southern Black Hills, PO Box 28, Custer SD 57730 Custer
Area Chamber of Commerce, PO Box 5018, Custer,
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