Monday was the second most productive day of the week at 24 percent, followed by Wednesday at 14 percent and no particular day at 17 percent. Thursday and Friday tied as the least productive days of the week, each receiving 3 percent of the vote.
Piedmont. The Piedmont is the middle region of the state, located between the Coastal Plain and the Mountain regions. Piedmont is a French word meaning foot of the mountain.. The elevations of this region range from about 300 feet in the western Coastal Plain to about 1,500 feet near the mountains.
The area was first inhabited in the mid 1870s. Piedmont is located part of an area referred to as the Red Valley, or Race Track, a rock layer in the Spearfish Formation which forms a valley circling the Black Hills. It is mostly red shale with beds of gypsum.