Sturgis (Bear Butte Creek)

Where: South Dakota · approx. 44.41, -103.51 (vicinity only)

Why this spot: 1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Bear Butte Creek below Fort Meade on the northeast Black Hills front

What turns up: Garrison-town and saloon-district refuse between town and Fort Meade: dug whiskey and beer bottles, military buttons and hardware, clay pipes, and privy fill behind the earliest business blocks the 1885 sheet shows.

Access: Gray area.

Bear Butte Creek's bed below the ordinary high-water mark is state public trust with restricted artifact removal; the townsite is private, and the adjacent Fort Meade grounds are federal land where historic-site disturbance is barred without authorization.

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