Rushmore is a town in Nobles County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 342 at the 2010 census.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.25 square miles (0.65 km), all land. Rushmore is located in section 19 of Dewald Township. It is situated on the Buffalo Ridge, a drainage divide together with the Mississippi and Missouri River systems.

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The founding of Rushmore: The city was named for S.M. Rushmore, an prematurely pioneer. The town owes its existence to the construction of the Worthington and Sioux Falls Railway, and the desire of a New York capitalist to announce a estate colonization scheme in southwestern Minnesota. When the Worthington and Sioux Falls Railway was initially surveyed, it was established to build a station home in section 19 of Dewald Township. The station house was Named Miller Station, in great compliment of ex-governor Stephen Miller, and for two years it had no inhabitants. In 1878, George I. Seney, a New York capitalist, secured govern of large plots of railroad estate in Dewald and Olney Townships. He hastily began the process of colonizing the lands, bringing out settlers from New York City and further eastern points. On May 27, 1878, a Mr. S. M. Rushmore arrived in Worthington along subsequent to his family, and brusquely took a train for Miller Station. There he normal a deposit to benefits Mr. Seney’s flood of colonists. A railroad depot was afterward constructed, and the town was surveyed and platted. In August 1878, the town was renamed Rushmore in tribute of the speculator shopkeeper, and the community grew rapidly. Indeed, a issue directory from the slip of 1879 shows that Rushmore had a general store, a feed mill, an elevator, a hotel, a hardware store, a grocer, a lumber agent, a tinware dealer, a notion store, a jeweler, and two blacksmiths. The town next had a extra church and a other school. On March 27, 1900, Rushmore, with a population of 204, was incorporated. Village handing out promptly began under President S. B. Bedford.