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STURGIS — A years-long battle by the town of Buffalo Chip to retain its status as an incorporated municipality was officially dissolved in minutes Tuesday by the Meade County Commission.
The controversy began in 2015 when area residents petitioned the Meade County Commission to incorporate Buffalo Chip campground as a city.
The beginning of the end of the town came on Nov. 12, when the South Dakota Supreme Court ruled that Buffalo Chip was not a town. The justices were reaffirming a ruling by Fourth Circuit Court Judge Gordon Swanson from February of 2019.
Swanson said Buffalo Chip was not lawfully incorporated as a municipality. He ordered that the town be precluded from exercising its corporate rights and be dissolved. ....

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