Piedmont, South Dakota

Piedmont is a town in Meade County, South Dakota, United States which was incorporated in 2007. Piedmont lies in the Racetrack or Red Valley which circles most of the Black Hills. Piedmont takes its name from the french words pied (foot) and mont (mountain)and the fact that the town lies at a point where the Black Hills rise particularly abruptly from the Red Valley. Although newly incorporated, Piedmont has been inhabited since the coming of the railroad in the 1800s. The boundaries of Piedmont include only the oldest part of town, but there are several urban subdivisions nearby. Piedmont is mostly a bedroom community to nearby Rapid City, but also has construction and forest products businesses nearby. The Piedmont area has experienced three large forest fires since 2003,the Piedmont, Ricco, and Eastridge Fires. In August, 2007 Peidmont experienced a flood rated as a 100-year event in which 6" of rain fell in less than an hour, with runoff exacerbated by the steep terrain burned in the Ricco Fire. The flooding was accompanied by up to baseball-sized hail. Piedmont has been assigned the ZIP Code of 57769.

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