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= Billings, South Dakota = Billings is a small town located in the U.S. state of South Dakota, thirty miles west of the state capitol Pierre. The town had 4,145 residents in the 2020 census; its economy is based primarily on the cultivation of feed crops and fossil fuel extraction. Due to their proximity, the town is frequently confused with the larger city of Billings, Montana.

Appearances in television and film
A large number of movies and TV shows have used Billings as a backdrop. The meeting between David and his freight contractor in Season 7, Episode 2 of Ice Road Truckers was shot in Slooty's Saloon, a local bar, and two scenes from Season 8 of The X Files were shot in a nearby medical clinic. Although Billings is most often used to represent "a sleepy, desolate, mid-Western town," at least one production has utilized close-ups to use it as a stand-in for New York City. Feature length productions partially or fully shot in Billings include The Great Japomeh (1982), Pride and Perjury (1987), and the second Mighty Ducks film (1994). Director Alan Duvernay described Billings as "something of an inside joke in the Northern Great Plains film industry."