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Blackpipe, South Dakota

unincorporated community in South Dakota

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ4923229 ↗
Source-derived summary

Blackpipe is an unincorporated community in Bennett County, South Dakota, United States. GNIS also states a post office was there in 1940.

Prior to the opening of a convenience store in 2014, residents had to travel across county lines to Parmelee or White River to get gas. The store was funded by the Rosebud Sioux Tribe and the Four Band Community Fund, Inc. in Eagle Butte.

Education

The Bennett County School District serves all of Bennett County.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Blackpipe, South Dakota” as unincorporated community in South Dakota. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Blackpipe, South and Dakota.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1940, 2014—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Blackpipe, South and Dakota providing the first useful test.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4923229. Authority coordinates are 43.344, -101.275. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1940 and 2014.

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This entry incorporates text from “Blackpipe, South Dakota” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.