Avon South Dakota Map

About Avon, South Dakota

Avon is a locality in Bon Homme County, South Dakota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 586. The population density is 349.2 people per km². Avon is located at 43.0050°N, 98.0598°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Avon is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 57315.

Avon emerges from the expansive, silent geometry of the South Dakota prairie, where the horizon stretches thin and taut like a pulled wire. It lies 34.8 miles west-northwest of Yankton, SD (from Yankton, SD: bearing 286°T), and is situated 13.3 miles northwest of Springfield. The earth here is a vast, open ledger of loess and clay, occasionally broken by the modest, winding path of Dry Choteau Creek, which marks the land with a shallow, seasonal furrow. To the west, the distant profile of Maidens Leap rises like a jagged tooth against the bruising violet of a late afternoon sky. Nearer to the center of things, the landscape settles into a quiet, agrarian stillness, punctuated only by the sudden, sharp flight of a meadowlark or the long, reaching shadows that spill across the fields as the sun dips behind the plains.

Avon carries the weight of a history rooted in the stubborn persistence of homesteaders who carved a life from the tallgrass and wind. The economy remains tethered to the rhythm of the seasons, defined by the turning of soil and the methodical harvest that dictates the pace of every passing year. A few miles away, the quiet waters of Meiers Lake offer a brief, reflective pause in the terrain, while the Williamson provides a sanctuary for the native grasses and wildlife that have long predated the arrival of the plow. Life in Avon is measured in the slow accumulation of days, a place where the social fabric is held together by the gravity of shared labor and the enduring, unadorned beauty of the plains.

About This Avon Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Avon, South Dakota. Coordinates: 43.004995, -98.059795. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Avon includes the ZIP code (57315), telephone area code (605), county seat of Bon Homme County (Tyndall), and school district assignment (Avon School District 04-1).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.