The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pipestone \Pipe"stone`\, n. A kind of clay slate, carved by the Indians into tobacco pipes. Cf. Catlinite.
Wiktionary
n. A hard, red clay used by Native Americans for making tobacco pipes.
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 2097
Land area (2000): 3.923802 sq. miles (10.162601 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.923802 sq. miles (10.162601 sq. km)
FIPS code: 51388
Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location: 43.997885 N, 96.317128 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
Pipestone
Housing Units (2000): 4434
Land area (2000): 465.885857 sq. miles (1206.638778 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.259181 sq. miles (0.671275 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 466.145038 sq. miles (1207.310053 sq. km)
Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location: 44.006189 N, 96.254835 W
Headwords:
Pipestone, MN
Pipestone County
Pipestone County, MN
Wikipedia
Pipestone may refer to:
- Catlinite, a type of red, carvable rock used by Native Americans for pipes and effigies
- Pipestone, Manitoba
- Pipestone No. 92, Saskatchewan, Canada, a former name of the Rural Municipality of Walpole No. 92
- Pipestone Creek, in central Alberta, Canada
- Pipestone Pass (Alberta), a pass in Banff National Park, Alberta (see List of passes of the Rocky Mountains)
- Pipestone River (disambiguation), any of several rivers in Canada
- Pipestone Township, Michigan
- Pipestone, Minnesota
- Pipestone County, Minnesota
- Pipestone Pass (Montana), a pass on the Continental Divide of the Americas in Montana
- Pipestone Region, in southwest Minnesota
- Pipestone National Monument, located near Pipestone, Minnesota
- Pipestone Area High School, the public high school in Pipestone, Minnesota
- Pipestone Area School District, the public school district serving the community of Pipestone
- Pipestone Golf Course, in Miamisburg, Ohio, USA
Pipestone was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of the province of Saskatchewan, Canada. Located in southeastern Saskatchewan, this district was created as "Whitewood" before the 1st Saskatchewan general election in 1905. In 1908 the riding was redrawn and renamed "Pipestone", after the Pipestone Creek that flowed through the district.
This constituency was abolished before the 8th Saskatchewan general election in 1934. It is now part of the Moosomin constituency.
Usage examples of "pipestone".
Ginny had acquired several fine specimens, a jet buffalo, a pipestone buck sheep, a dolomite deer, a black marble fish, a serpentine snake .
I went up to the Pipestone Bluff where all the tribes quarry this red stone.
Inside were remnants of a pipe carved from red pipestone, along with small pieces of wood, some with old pigments clinging to it.
There was, indeed, the dusty bed where it had been, but it seemed that even the Pipestone was now running upside down.
In the glow of the stars San Juan once more looked as it had many years ago, when its friendly houses beside the Pipestone were beautiful in the dusk.
The day cleared up as Prospero walked along, and it was a bright hot noon when he came to the place where the Great South Road crosses the Sea Road, which runs from the wellsprings of the Pipestone River to the sea forts on the western coast.
There were pipes made of red pipestone, very old, but difficult to date without her lithic textbooks.
Ceremonial objects were common, the most conspicuous being the calumet, carved out of the sacred pipestone or catlinite quarried for many generations in the midst of the Siouan territory.
Some of the pioneer parties discovered the pipestone quarry, and many traditions cling about this landmark.
Pipestone, Minnesota, is named for the sacred red cliffs where the old-time Santee, amongst others, quarried the red catlanite or Pipestone they carved into calumets, or what we tend to call peace pipes.