The Rapid City Flood of 1972

Acknowledgments and References

C. F. Boone Publishing, 1972: The Rapid City Flood…June 9, 1972, 66 pp.

Dennis, A. S., R. A. Schleusener, J. H. Hirsch and Alexander Koscielski, 1973: Meteorology of the Black Hills Flood of 1972.

Halligan, Don K., 1976: Hourly Cumulative Totals of Rainfall Black Hills Flash Flood June 9-10, 1972, NOAA Technical Memorandum NWS CR-59, pp. 17.

Larimer, Owen J., 1973: Flood of June 9-10, 1972, at Rapid City, South Dakota, U. S. Geological Survey Atlas HA-511.

Rapid City Urban Renewal Agency, 1973: Rapid Creek flood disaster feasibility study : Project S.D. R-3 (FS) / Rapid City Urban Renewal Agency.

Rothrock, Edgar Paul, 1943:  A Geology of South Dakota, State of South Dakota, pp 88.

Saint Amand, P., R. J. Davis, and R. D. Elliot, 1972: Report on Rapid City Flood of 9 June 1972, South Dakota Weather Commission, Pierre, SD, 37 pp.

Schwarz, Francis K., Lawrence A. Hughes, and E. Marshall Hansen (NWS) and M. S. Petersen and Donovan B. Kelly (USGS), 1975: The Black Hills-Rapid City Flood of June 9-10, 1972:  A Description of the Storm and Flood.  Report prepared jointly by the USGS and NOAA.  Geological Survey Professional Paper 877, US Government Printing Office, Washington, pp 47.

South Dakota Department of Highways, Communications Division, 1973: Rapid City Flood Documentation.

Thompson, Herbert J., 1972: The Black Hills Flood. Weatherwise, 162-167.

U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District, 1973: Flood Plain Information: Rapid City, South Dakota, pp. 48.

U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District, 197?: Cheyenne River Basin, South Dakota Black Hills Area Flood of 9-10 June 1972, pp. 108.

U. S. Department of Commerce, 1972: Natural Disaster Survey Report 72-1.  Black Hills Flood of June 9, 1972, pp. 20.

U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 1974: Rapid City flood disaster program: urban renewal project, project no. SD-R3, Rapid City, South Dakota. Final environmental impact statement, pp. 266.

U. S. Geological Survey, 1972: Water Resources Review, pp. 18.

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