Belle Fourche, SD - Applesauce Is the Devil's Pudding

Welcome to Belle Fourche, South Dakota!  Belle Fourche is the seat of Butte County and is located in western South Dakota about 11 miles from the Wyoming border.  The town began as a stagecoach stop in the mid 1880s when a stagecoach route was established between Medora, ND and Deadwood, SD.   In 1890 a railroad terminal was established in town to facilitate transferring cattle from the area to the packing plants in the Midwest.  By 1895 the station became the world's largest livestock shipping point, moving 2,500 cars of cattle per month in the peak season.  The town remains one of the most important livestock shipping points.  The area became the center of the contiguous United States in 1959 with the admission of Alaska and Hawaii into the Union.  A point 20 miles north of town was officially designated as the geographic center of the nation.  We hope you enjoy our visit to Belle  Fourche!Small Town News--whose headline is it, anyway? @SmallTownNewsImprov