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Hayward

HISTORICAL POPULATED PLACE ยท SOUTH DAKOTA

A historical populated place in Pennington County, South Dakota, recorded by the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System.

Location Record

Name
Hayward
Feature Type
Populated Place (historical)
State
South Dakota
County
Pennington County
USGS Map
Hayward
Coordinates
43.8716557, -103.3343556
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GNIS Feature ID
1267028

Names and historical notes

Recorded by GNIS. Source wording is retained; these notes have not been independently verified by Forgotten America.

GNIS description

Ghost town; Rushmore Cave is located here.

GNIS historical note

Settled in late 1876 by Charles Hayward, for whom the community was named. Mr. Hayward found plcer diggings here along Battle Creek. (SD-T17/p132) Former county seat of Custer County, until it was discovered to be over the line into Pennington County.

Also recorded as

Source editions and recorded citations

Feature ID 1267028. Description/History extract: August 28, 2026. All Names extract: September 30, 2026. Retrieved October 22, 2026. Only populated fields are displayed.

GNIS citation text may identify a source series rather than a specific page. It is reproduced below without implying that its underlying documents were inspected.

  • Map U.S. Geological Survey 1981-12-31 00:00:00 Geographic Names Phase I data compilation (1976-1981) Primarily from U.S. Geological Survey 1:24,000-scale topographic maps (or 1:25K, Puerto Rico 1:20K) and from U.S. Board on Geographic Names files.
  • Text Sneve, Virginia Driving Hawk. South Dakota Geographic Names. Brevet Press, Sioux Falls, SD, 1973.

GNIS source datasets and documentation

Source: U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), Historical Features.