Strange as it may seem, the chaos and excitement of gold fever spawned the first foundations of civil order in Deadwood.

Starting from the actual point of discovery, mining claims were issued upstream and downstream, and from canyon rim to canyon rim. A number of mining camps, bearing names like Ingleside, Elizabethtown and Deadwood, grew up around these claims.

In time, these mining camps brought order to the wilderness and formed the basis for community development.