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Ashland Heights South Dakota Map

Explore Ashland Heights, South Dakota, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Ashland Heights, South Dakota

How to Use This Ashland Heights, South Dakota Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Ashland Heights, South Dakota. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of South Dakota or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Ashland Heights.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	Ashland Heights
State	South Dakota (SD)
County	Pennington County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Mountain Time (America/Denver)

Latitude	44.12971
Longitude	-103.125178
Population	678
Density	89.6 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	57701
Area Code	605
County Seat	Rapid City
School District	Douglas School District 51-1

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About Ashland Heights, South Dakota

Ashland Heights is a locality in Pennington County, South Dakota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 678. The population density is 89.6 people per km². Ashland Heights is located at 44.1297°N, 103.1252°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. ZIP code: 57701.

Ashland Heights emerges from the high, arid plains as a quiet collection of dwellings where the horizon stretches wide and unencumbered under a vault of pale, expansive sky. It lies 3.1 miles west-northwest of Box Elder, SD (from Box Elder, SD: bearing 293°T), and is situated 6.3 miles east-northeast of Rapid City. Dry grasses sway in the persistent wind that sweeps across the plateau, carrying the scent of parched earth and distant sage. Only a mile away, Boxelder Creek carves a shallow, wandering path through the scrub, its banks providing a sliver of green relief in an otherwise tawny landscape. To the west, the dark, jagged silhouette of the Black Hills looms against the sunset, a constant reminder of the rugged geological shifts that define this corner of the interior. The air here holds a sharp, clean clarity, particularly as the light fails and the shadows of the plains grow long and violet, swallowing the low rises of the land.

Ashland Heights remains a place defined by its proximity to the rugged, expansive frontier, serving as a residential outpost that looks toward the labor of the surrounding region. While the economic pulse of the territory beats in the mining and ranching legacies that shaped the nearby canyons, the immediate vicinity offers a more tempered pace of life. Residents often look toward the open spaces of Unknown Park for respite, or venture further toward the deeper waters of Pactola Reservoir when the summer heat settles heavily over the gullies. Even the distant, weathered contours of Sweet Gulch provide a topographical anchor for those who live where the prairie meets the climb toward the higher peaks. Life in Ashland Heights moves with the deliberate, steady rhythm of those who have learned to respect the immense scale of the landscape and the temperamental shifts of the plains weather.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Unknown Park (Local Park) — 1.2 mi, 125° SE
Dakota Fields Soccer Complex (Local Recreation) — 1.4 mi, 251° W
Elk Vale Park (Local Park) — 2.3 mi, 197° S
Ec-135 (Attraction) — 2.6 mi, 085° E
Legal Eagle II (Attraction) — 2.6 mi, 086° E
B-25 Mitchell III (Attraction) — 2.6 mi, 084° E
The Quarter Pounder with Cheese (Monument) — 2.6 mi, 208° SW
Unknown Ball Park (Local Recreation) — 2.8 mi, 115° SE
Apex Gallery (Gallery) — 5.6 mi, 227° SW
Grubby Miner Statue (Public Artwork) — 5.6 mi, 227° SW
Museum of Geology (Museum) — 5.6 mi, 226° SW
Fine Arts Theater (Theatre) — 5.8 mi, 240° SW
The Berlin Wall at Memorial Park (Monument) — 5.9 mi, 239° SW
Hanson-Larsen Memorial Park (Local Conservation Area) — 6.0 mi, 248° W
Main Street Square Amphitheatre (Theatre) — 6.0 mi, 236° SW
Art for Everyone (Gallery) — 6.1 mi, 225° SW
Suzie Cappa Art Center (Gallery) — 6.2 mi, 237° SW
Fallen Officers Memorial (Monument) — 6.6 mi, 242° SW
Scenic Overlook (Viewpoint) — 7.2 mi, 238° SW
Storybook Island Train (Attraction) — 7.9 mi, 240° SW
Black Hills National Forest (National Forest) — 10.5 mi, 217° SW · 1.3M acres
Dinosaur Museum (Museum) — 12.2 mi, 217° SW
Mann School (Historic Ruins) — 13.8 mi, 155° SE
Buffalo Gap National Grassland (National Grassland) — 14.9 mi, 151° SE · 587k acres
Dodge School (Historic Ruins) — 15.1 mi, 176° S
Norbeck Wildlife Preserve National Game Refuge (National Conservation Area) — 21.5 mi, 220° SW · 46k acres
Custer State Park (State Park) — 23.6 mi, 207° SW
Black Elk Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 23.7 mi, 217° SW · 14k acres
Badlands National Park (National Park) — 35.7 mi, 149° SE · 111k acres
Wind Cave National Park (National Park) — 36.4 mi, 197° S · 34k acres

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