Rapid Valley, South Dakota

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The largest community within a 50 mile [80 km] radius is Rapid City. It lies just west of Rapid Valley and has a population of 59,607 people.^<1>

The next largest community is Central Pennington. It lies just west of Rapid Valley and has a population of 13,369 people.

Other large communities in the area:

	Community	Direction	Distance<2>	2008 Population	Change Since 2000
	Belle Fourche-Cheyenne Valleys	NE	34 mi [54.7 km]	5,987	2.17% increase
	Box Elder	NE	5 mi [8.05 km]	3,517	23.79% increase
	Custer	SW	30 mi [48.28 km]	1,940	4.3% increase
	Deadwood	NW	36 mi [57.9 km]	1,283	7.03% decrease
	East Custer	S	24 mi [38.62 km]	---
	Hot Springs	S	46 mi [74 km]	4,028	2.45% decrease
	Lead	NW	36 mi [57.9 km]	2,892	4.46% decrease
	Mount Rushmore	SW	13 mi [20.92 km]	6,800	6.9% increase
	North Lawrence	NW	43 mi [69.2 km]	5,555	4.75% increase
	South Lawrence	W	33 mi [53.1 km]	2,413	12.44% increase
	Southwest Meade	NW	22 mi [35.41 km]	10,203	6.14% decrease
	Spearfish	NW	45 mi [72.4 km]	10,010	16.31% increase
	Sturgis	NW	30 mi [48.28 km]	5,950	7.64% decrease
	West Custer	SW	41 mi [66 km]	---
	West Pennington	W	31 mi [49.89 km]	1,868	20.28% increase

Below is a sample of nearby communities:

	Community	Direction	Distance	2008 Population	Change Since 2000
	Ashland Heights	N	4 mi [6.44 km]	---
	Blackhawk	NW	10 mi [16.09 km]	---
	Colonial Pine Hills	SW	9 mi [14.48 km]	---
	East Central Pennington	E	24 mi [38.62 km]	655	82.96% increase
	Fairburn	S	26 mi [41.84 km]	75	6.25% decrease
	Green Valley	SE	2 mi [3.22 km]	---
	Hermosa	S	15 mi [24.14 km]	350	11.11% increase
	Hill City	SW	22 mi [35.41 km]	908	16.41% increase
	Keystone	SW	18 mi [28.97 km]	316	1.61% increase
	New Underwood	E	15 mi [24.14 km]	675	9.58% increase
	Rapid City East	SE	9 mi [14.48 km]	1,425	25.88% increase
	Silver City	W	20 mi [32.19 km]	---
	Sioux Village	NW	5 mi [8.05 km]	---
	Summerset	NW	13 mi [20.92 km]	---
	Wicksville	E	27 mi [43.45 km]	---

Pennington County

Rapid Valley is located in Pennington County.

Below are counties that are near Rapid Valley (within 40 mi [64.4 km]). For each of these counties, we also show the community that is closest to Rapid Valley:

	County	Direction	Nearest Community	Distance From Rapid Valley
	Butte County	N	Empire	39 miles [62 km]
	Custer County	S	Hermosa	15 miles [24 km]
	Lawrence County	NW	Nemo	19 miles [30 km]
	Meade County	NW	Blackhawk	10 miles [16 km]
	Shannon County	SE	Red Shirt	29 miles [46 km]

The Commemorative Quarter for South Dakota<3>

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People are finding Google's 'Search-by-Location' to be a useful tool when planning visits to this area. We have prepared the following searches to help you find businesses, travel and vacation activities that are in (or close to) Rapid Valley. It's likely that the search results won't include all of the businesses that are in this area, but the results should give you a good foundation for further searches.

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