The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusMountain Plains is an unincorporated area and census-designated place (CDP) in Lawrence County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 327 at the 2020 census. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census. It is in the northern part of the county, on the northern edge of the Black Hills. It is bordered to the north by the city of Spearfish. U.S. Route 14A forms the eastern edge of the CDP, following the canyon of Spearfish Creek.
Half of its homes were built before 2005.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Mountain Plains yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.
Start Mountain Plains’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Mountain Plains’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Mountain Plains, decade by decade
2000
1 historic place in Mountain Plains
1 place in Mountain Plains is on the National Register of Historic Places, the country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
Where they are
When they were listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.