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Welcome to Prairie Queen ...So far, we found very little information about Prairie Queen. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Prairie Queen to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Prairie Queen, please Contact Us. Prairie Queen would have been located within present day Lake County<2>. The location of Prairie Queen has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Prairie Queen, you might consider that their post office opened in 1879. While the community is gone, the present day location for Prairie Queen is 1,710 feet [521 m] above sea level.<4>. Time Zone: The area where Prairie Queen was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time The location where Prairie Queen once stood is in the (605) area code. Communities Also Named Prairie Queen ...Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Prairie Queen - it's located in Minnesota. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Prairie Queen. Communities near Prairie Queen ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Prairie Queen.
To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy. We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Prairie Queen. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Prairie Queen. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Prairie Queen. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Prairie Queen. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Prairie Queen. See our Newspapers Page for Prairie Queen. Adding Prairie Queen to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Prairie Queen in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page. From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Prairie Queen was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6> We also found Prairie Queen in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895). For more details, see References and Mentions for Prairie Queen. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for State of South Dakota: sd.gov/ Footnotes ...
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