Belle Fourche (Belle Fourche River)

Where: South Dakota · approx. 44.67, -103.85 (vicinity only)

Why this spot: 1900s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Belle Fourche River near its junction with the Redwater River, at the northern edge of the Hills

What turns up: Railhead and cattle-shipping refuse near the stockyards, tracks, and river bottom: hutchinson sodas, whiskey and medicine bottles, cattle-trade and rail hardware, and privy fill behind the early Fifth Avenue blocks on the 1903 sheet.

Access: Gray area.

The Belle Fourche River bed below the ordinary high-water mark is state public trust where artifact removal is restricted; the townsite and stockyard ground are private property requiring the owner's permission.

Satellite view, historic-map overlays, tide/flow context and field notes are in the app. Exact research detail is part of Pro.