Highway Planning -- South Dakota

Scope and Contents Contains files pertaining to the Black Hills Area Transportation Study for the years 1950-1976. The results of the study were to be used to create, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration, a realistic plan for the development of a future highway network for the Black Hills area in southwestern South Dakota. The feasibility of other transportation options, including a monorail system to serve the Mouth Rushmore National Memorial, was also...

Scope and Contents This series contains five portfolios of city and county maps for locations throughout South Dakota.

Scope and Contents This series documents the State’s involvement in the transportation planning process for cities which desire and qualify for Metropolitan Planning funding. Information includes: annual work program, construction studies, and traffic counts. Ramp (Spearfish) Study Data, 1991-1992 Spearfish Interchange (1 of 2), 1991-1995 Spearfish Interchange (2 of 2), 1990-1992 ...

Scope and Contents From the Record Group: This record group contains records created and maintained by the South Dakota Department of Highways and includes highway and bridge construction plans and photographs, petitions, litigation files, publicitiy photographs and films, highway planning survey files, State Highway Commission audit reports, and records pertaining to the 1972 Rapid City flood.

Scope and Contents This series contains sale records for lands sold for highways by the Department of School and Public Lands. Records of sale include appraisement, surveyor’s certificates, plats and receipt of payment paperwork. The records are contained within envelopes which include information such as dates of appraisement, and coordinates of the lands. The records are arranged by county and thereunder chronologically. See box list for more information.

Scope and Contents From the Record Group: This record group contains records created and maintained by the South Dakota Department of Highways and includes highway and bridge construction plans and photographs, petitions, litigation files, publicitiy photographs and films, highway planning survey files, State Highway Commission audit reports, and records pertaining to the 1972 Rapid City flood.

Scope and Contents Consists of subject and correspondence files maintained by the Department of Transportation (formerly Department of Highways) Division of Administration between 1944 and 1978 and includes correspondence and memoranda (including copies of correspondence to and from Governors Richard F. Kneip and Harvey L. Wollman concerning state and federal transportation matters), District Engineers and Highway Research Review Board meeting minutes, reports, city and county maps, photographs, legal opinions,...