Big Bottom
Ghost town · United States
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 44.586, -103.523
Why it was abandoned
❔ Cause unknown
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History
Big Bottom (1878–1887) is a ghost town in Meade County. When it was listed as a town, 1876-abt 1900, it was located about 9 miles north of the town of Whitewood. It was in the large flat plain area just west of the present day border of Meade & Lawrence Counties, at the upper end of the Whitewood Valley, where Whitewood Creek turns west toward the Cheyenne River. When the town began abt. 1876, that area was part of Lawrence County. South Dakota, United States.