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Badger South Dakota Map

Explore Badger, 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 Badger, South Dakota

How to Use This Badger, South Dakota Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Badger, 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 Badger.

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	Badger
State	South Dakota (SD)
County	Kingsbury County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	44.485245
Longitude	-97.204792
Population	129
Density	46.9 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	57214
Area Code	605
County Seat	De Smet
School District	Arlington School District 38-1

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About Badger, South Dakota

Badger is a locality in Kingsbury County, South Dakota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 129. The population density is 46.9 people per km². Badger is located at 44.4852°N, 97.2048°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Badger is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 57214.

Badger occupies a quiet expanse of the high prairie, where the horizon stretches toward an infinite, pale sky that seems to swallow the very concept of distance. It lies 23.4 miles west-northwest of Brookings, SD (from Brookings, SD: bearing 301°T), and is situated 17.7 miles northwest of Volga. The earth here is a flat, unyielding canvas of deep loam and tall grasses, broken only by the occasional cluster of shelterbelt trees that shiver in the persistent wind. Two miles from the village, the still, reflective surface of Lake Albert holds the light of the setting sun, its quiet waters providing a stark contrast to the terrestrial vastness of the surrounding fields. Further out, the landscape yields to the subtle depressions of the terrain, eventually leading toward the distant, ancient contours of the Lake Preston Lakebed, while the intermittent pulse of Dolph Creek flows seven miles away, carving a thin, serpentine path through the soil that serves as the only relief in the level topography.

Badger emerged from the expansion of the rail era, its architecture defined by the practical, utilitarian structures of a grain-heavy economy that has persisted through generations of seasonal turning. Farmers here maintain a rhythm dictated by the soil, their labor forming the invisible foundation upon which the local identity rests, far from the frantic pace of denser regions. The proximity of Converse offers a rare, protected sliver of native vegetation, preserving a sense of what the plains held before the plow, and providing a sanctuary for the hawks that circle above the fields. Life in Badger moves with the deliberate weight of a long winter and the sudden, frantic energy of harvest, a cycle that renders the passage of time both predictable and profound.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Converse (State Conservation Area) — 2.1 mi, 119° SE
Kingsbury County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 2.8 mi, 090° E
Lake Albert East Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 3.1 mi, 042° NE
West Lake Poinsett (State Recreation Area) — 5.6 mi, 036° NE
Brookings County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 5.7 mi, 075° E
Donald Christman Toy Museum (Museum) — 6.6 mi, 358° N
Lake Poinsett (State Recreation Area) — 6.7 mi, 060° NE
Armed Services Memorial (Monument) — 6.7 mi, 357° N
Saaranen Beach (State Park) — 9.7 mi, 039° NE
Cinema 5 (Cinema) — 23.2 mi, 121° SE
Touchdown Jesus (Public Artwork) — 23.3 mi, 120° SE
Manchester Town Monument (Monument) — 26.7 mi, 253° W
Watertown Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 31.1 mi, 003° N
The Prairie Village, Herman & Milwaukee Railroad (Museum) — 33.1 mi, 177° S
Prairie Village (Museum) — 33.2 mi, 177° S
Grant County Historical Society Agricultural Museum (Museum) — 46.8 mi, 025° NE
Canby Depot Museum (Museum) — 48.2 mi, 071° E
Northern Tallgrass Prairie National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 53.7 mi, 126° SE · 12k acres
Spotted Quarry (Viewpoint) — 54.3 mi, 126° SE
Three Maidens (Historic Ruins) — 54.7 mi, 127° SE
Mill Theatres (Cinema) — 57.9 mi, 029° NE
Johnson School (Historic Ruins) — 61.5 mi, 165° S
Big Stone National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 64.1 mi, 037° NE · 23k acres
King & Queen Rock (Attraction) — 64.7 mi, 148° SE
Ron and Sheilah Gates Auditorium (Arts Centre) — 66.7 mi, 218° SW
Paul Bunyan's Boat-Anchor (Attraction) — 67.6 mi, 034° NE
Rodeo Bunny (Attraction) — 67.8 mi, 217° SW

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