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Flint Hills region, eastern Great Plains, east-central Kansas.
The Black Hills are an isolated, dome-shaped mountain region located in western South Dakota and northeastern Wyoming. While they are situated within the broader geographic context of the region, they are distinct from the surrounding Great Plains terrain.12
The Black Hills rise approximately 3,000 to 3,500 feet above the adjacent plains. Geologically, they formed as an upwarping of ancient rock, creating a unique topography of forested slopes and deep valleys that contrasts with the nearly level tablelands, buttes, and canyons characteristic of the surrounding Great Plains.12