Only 84,000 acres (340 km 2) of land are suitable for agriculture.
Of the 3,142 counties in the United States, these are among the poorest. The reservation encompasses the entirety of Oglala Lakota County and Bennett County, the southern half of Jackson County, and a small section of Sheridan County added by Executive Order No. Today it consists of 3,468.85 sq mi (8,984 km 2) of land area and is one of the largest reservations in the United States.
in the southwest corner of South Dakota on the Nebraska border. Originally included within the territory of the Great Sioux Reservation, Pine Ridge was created by the Act of March 2, 1889, 25 Stat. state of South Dakota, with a small portion in Nebraska. The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation ( Lakota: Wazí Aháŋhaŋ Oyáŋke), also called Pine Ridge Agency, is an Oglala Lakota Indian reservation located almost entirely within the U.S.
