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| | | SOUTH DAKOTA: The Mount Rushmore State
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| State Home Page: | | http://www.state.sd.us/ | | Capital: | | Pierre | | Year Admitted to Union: | | 1889 - 40th | | Population: | | 775,933 (2005) |
| Density: | | 9.9 persons per sq. mi. (46th) | | Per Capita Income: | | $28,299 (44th) | | Land Area: | | 77,116 sq mi (16th) | | Percent of Land Federally Owned: | | 5.4 | | Governor: | | Mike Rounds (R) | | Lottery start-up year: | | 1989 | |
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| | Ethnicity | | White persons: | | 686,7001 (88.5%) |
| Persons of Hispanic or Latino origin: | | 16,295 (2.1%) |
| African-American or Black persons: | | 6,207 (0.8%) |
| American Indian & Alaska Native persons: | | 62,797 (8.3%) | | Asian, Pacific Islander & Native Hawaiian persons: | | 5,432 (0.7%) |
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| | Legislature | | Seats in House: | | 70 | | Seats in Senate: | | 35 | | Number of Constitutions: | | 1 | | Effective Date of Present Constitution: | |
Nov. 2, 1889 | | U.S. Congressional Representatives: | | 1 | | Curious Facts:
| | Mount Rushmore National Memorial is granite and consists of the 60-foot sculptures of the heads of former U.S. Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. It is located in the United States Presidential Memorial, near Keystone, SD. |
| | | Some of the logs in
Petrified Wood Park in Lemmon weigh more than 10,000 pounds. | | | | The Mammoth Site in Hot
Springs has 100 Columbian and Woolly Mammoth fossils buried there. | |
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