Hereford is a tiny rural settlement in Meade County, South Dakota, little more than a scatter of farms on the high plains north of Rapid City. The community centers on its small elementary school, a lone institutional anchor amid open pastureland. Set roughly twenty-five miles north of Rapid City as the crow flies, Hereford sits in a quiet stretch of ranch country where section roads run straight to the horizon and homesteads stand far apart on the rolling grassland. - AsNotedIn