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2 unusual facts about Huron, South Dakota


Aurora, South Dakota

However, if it wishes to compete at the district tournament, it must compete against its intra-district 1 opponents, which are Brookings, Aberdeen, Watertown, and Huron.

Huron University USA in London

The institution was originally established in 1989 as a branch of Huron University, an American university based in Huron, South Dakota, that was founded in 1883.


2009–10 Great West Conference men's basketball season

The league's coaches voted South Dakota the inaugural preaseason #1 and South Dakota senior forward Tyler Cain the preseason player of the year.

Astor Expedition

The party traveled west with relative ease through South Dakota and Wyoming, and accumulated 6,000 pounds of dried buffalo meat northwest of present-day Pinedale.

Barb Fisher

Fisher ran for the Progressive Conservative nomination in the new riding of Huron—Bruce, but lost to Helen Johns.

Barrie line

The line runs on the tracks of the Northern Railway of Canada, along the original route of the Ontario, Simcoe and Huron Railway before that was extended far to the north in later years.

Buffalo, West Virginia

Historic tribes such as the Huron, from the Great Lakes region, and the Conoy (also spelled Conois and Kanawha) were driven out of the central valley by Iroquois' invading from their base in present-day western New York.

Cheyenne River

It is joined by Rapid Creek, passes Wasta and is joined by the Belle Fourche River in eastern Meade County, after which it flows ENE along the southern boundary of the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation.

Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad

In April 2004, DM&E was awarded the power of eminent domain in South Dakota by the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in Pierre, South Dakota.

Donnacona, Quebec

However, the Huron Chieftain never lived in this area, but rather further east in Stadacona.

East Ypsilanti, Michigan

East Ypsilanti, Michigan was a village along the east side of the Huron River in Washtenaw County, Michigan from 1844 until 1858.

Étienne Brûlé

Champlain made the arrangement to do so and in return, the chief Iroquet (an Algonquin leader of the Petite nation who wintered his people near Huronia), requested that Champlain take Savignon, a young Huron, with him to teach him the customs and habits of the French.

Faith, South Dakota

Faith is located in the West River region of South Dakota, that part of the state located west of the Missouri River, and in the Northern Great Plains, on a ridge dividing the Cheyenne River to the south and the Grand River and its major tributary, the Moreau River to the north (both are tributaries of the Missouri).

Huron Subdivision

The Huron Subdivision is a direct descendant of the railroad line featured in the four De Smet novels within the overall series of children's novels written by Laura Ingalls Wilder known as the Little House on the Prairie series.

Huron-Wendat

Huron-Wendat Nation, known as the Nation Huronne-Wendat, they are a Huron-Wendat First Nation community at Wendake, Quebec.

Huron, Indiana

In Kentucky, 3985 was decided to host the annual CSX Clinchfield Santa Train which runs over the former Clinchfield Railroad between Elkhorn City, Kentucky and Kingsport, Tennessee.

Jack Sepkoski

His Ph.D. was on the field geology and paleontology of the Black Hills of South Dakota.

Lake Harney

There are several landmarks that are named after him in his honor; such as Harney Peak in South Dakota as well as Camp Harney in Zapata, Texas.

Liberty Township, Brown County, South Dakota

Liberty Township is a civil township in Brown County, South Dakota, United States.

Loaf 'N Jug

As of 2008, there were 175 Loaf 'N Jug stores, primarily in Colorado and Wyoming with additional stores in Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Yorkton, Saskatchewan.

Minnesota State Highway 117

Minnesota State Highway 117 is a short highway in west central Minnesota, which runs from Roberts County Road 19 at the South Dakota state line and continues east to its eastern terminus at its intersection with State Highway 27 near Wheaton.

North Dakota Highway 1804

Highway 1804 begins at the border between North Dakota and South Dakota near Pollock, South Dakota, and continues uninterrupted along the north east side of the Missouri River through Emmons, Burleigh, McLean, Mountrail, and Williams counties.

Northwestern Bell

In 1976, Northwestern Bell sold access lines in the Midland, Philip, Martin, White River, Milesville, and Hayes exchanges to Golden West Telephone, a small telephone cooperative in South Dakota.

Ohio State Route 547

State Route 547's western endpoint is situated on the Seneca-Huron County Line, which serves as the western boundary of the historic Firelands and Connecticut Western Reserve.

Ohio State Route 61

Its southern terminus is at the U.S. Route 36/State Route 3 concurrency in Sunbury, and its northern terminus is at U.S. Route 6 east of Huron, at the southernmost point of Lake Erie (which is subsequently the southernmost northern border of the United States).

Paul Klopp

He first ran for the Ontario Legislature in the provincial election of 1985, but finished a distant third against Liberal Jack Riddell in the riding of Huron—Middlesex.

Port Huron Fighting Falcons

Shoulder patches on both home and away uniforms will feature a cicular logo with the Blue Water Bridge, that spans the St. Clair River separating Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario, Canada.

Port Huron Museum

The Port Huron Museum is a series of five museums located in Port Huron, Michigan, USA.

Robert H. Johnson

In 1972, he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida, which nominated the U.S. Senator George S. McGovern of South Dakota for the U.S. presidency.

Rochester 400

It originated as the Mankato, Minnesota to Wyeville, Wisconsin Minnesota 400 in 1936, then was later extended in 1950 to run all the way from Chicago, Illinois to Huron, South Dakota and renamed the Dakota 400.

Roger Gallaway

Gallaway has also appeared in performances with Sarnia/Port Huron's International Symphony, and was the narrator of a "Child's Introduction to the Symphony".

Ruse of war

The use of the American flag flown on the RMS Lusitania while crossing through the Irish Sea to avoid attack by German submarines during the First World War was criticized in debate in the United States House of Representatives by Republican Eben Martin of South Dakota, who stated that "the United States cannot be made a party to a ruse of war where the national colors are involved".

Salix serissima

These include four in the Black Hills of South Dakota (two on the Black Hills National Forest); one in the Sherman Mountains of Albany County, Wyoming (on the Medicine Bow National Forest); seven in north-central Colorado (one on the Arapaho-Roosevelt National Forest); and one in southwestern Colorado (potentially on the San Juan National Forest).

Sheila Sondergard

Sheila Sondergard (born April 24, 1980) is a singer-songwriter, born in Seoul, South Korea and raised in Maui, Hawaii, the Black Hills of South Dakota, and Central America.

Silver carp

By August 2009, they had become abundant in the Mississippi River watershed from Louisiana to South Dakota and Illinois, and had grown close to invading the Great Lakes via the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.

Statewide opinion polling for the Republican Party presidential primaries, 2012

Haley Barbour of Mississippi, Jeb Bush of Florida, Chris Christie of New Jersey, Jim DeMint of South Carolina, Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota, Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and John Thune of South Dakota all succeeded in leading polls in their home states at some point in 2011, although only Pawlenty actually launched a campaign.

The Caribou Show

The show also lampooned local political figures, including Dave Munson and Vernon Brown.

United States presidential election in South Dakota, 2004

SD is allocated 3 electors because it has 1 congressional districts and 2 senators.

Western Regional Examining Board

Other states that are currently accepting successful completion results of the WREB exam are, California Dental Hygiene Only, Colorado, Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Ohio, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, and Wisconsin.

Wolsey, South Dakota

Cheryl Ladd, born Cheryl Jean Stoppelmoor in nearby Huron SD, visited Wolsey frequently since her grandparents lived there.


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