South Dakota’s statistical center of population in 2000, according to the Census Bureau and the National Geodetic Survey, lay 3.2 miles northwest of this site at latitude 44 degrees 02 minutes 51 seconds north and longitude 99 degrees 02 minutes 37.6 seconds west, established in cooperation with the South Dakota Society of Professional Land Surveyors, the South Dakota Department of Transportation, the U.S. Census Bureau, the National Geodetic Survey, and Buffalo County.