7 Facts About Big Sioux

1. About the time Big Sioux Falls began treating its wastewater, Seney Island, a popular picnicking excursion north of the falls, was filled in to accommodate expanding downtown industry.

2. On September 26, 2007, the Big Sioux Falls Spitfire suspended operations.

3. In January 2019, The Big Sioux Falls School District board of education approved the naming and building plans of Thomas Jefferson High School.

4. Roman Catholic Diocese of Big Sioux Falls, one of two dioceses in the state, built St Joseph Cathedral on Duluth Avenue beginning in 1915 and completed in 1919.

5. At the time South Big Sioux Falls had a population of nearly 1,600 inhabitants, according to the 1950 census.

6. The population of Big Sioux Falls mushroomed from 2,164 in 1880 to 10,167 at the close of the decade.

7. The Village of Big Sioux Falls, consisting of 1,200 acres, was incorporated in 1876 and was granted a city charter by the Dakota Territorial legislature on March 3, 1883.