Belle Fourche, South Dakota

Belle Fourche population, 2020 to 2024

Belle Fourche added 207 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.7%. In the latest year it moved by -32. Among 18 South Dakota places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 8th; the median place changed by +2.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in South Dakota has 13,845 people, so Belle Fourche is 42% of it.

Belle Fourche covers 9.00 square miles of land and 0.07 of water, for 651 people per square mile of land. The median South Dakota place of 5,000+ has 1,459, so Belle Fourche is less dense than the typical town.

What county Belle Fourche is in

All of Belle Fourche's residents live in Butte County, which had 10,891 residents in 2024. Belle Fourche holds 53.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Belle Fourche

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Belle Fourche by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 57717. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Belle Fourche is

The Census internal point of Belle Fourche is at 44.663800, -103.859100. Pierre, the capital, is 174.3 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Spearfish, SD (13,803 people), 12.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Billings, MT, 241.2 miles away.

Daylight in Belle Fourche

At 44.66° N, Belle Fourche gets about 15 h 34 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 48 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 46 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Belle Fourche

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in South Dakota, measured between internal points. The closest is Spearfish, 12.1 miles away, with 13,803 people.