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Bath South Dakota Map

Explore Bath, 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 Bath, South Dakota

How to Use This Bath, South Dakota Map

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

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

Latitude	45.468302
Longitude	-98.323707
Population	142
Density	188.4 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	57427
Area Code	605
County Seat	Aberdeen
School District	Aberdeen School District 06-1

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About Bath, South Dakota

Bath is a locality in Brown County, South Dakota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 142. The population density is 188.4 people per km². Bath is located at 45.4683°N, 98.3237°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 57427.

Bath occupies a flat, expansive reach of the prairie where the horizon pulls the sky taut against the earth. It lies 7.9 miles east of Aberdeen, SD (from Aberdeen, SD: bearing 88°T), and is situated 70.8 miles northwest of Watertown. The landscape around Bath is defined by the steady, unyielding presence of the plains, where grasses shift in the wind like the surface of a slow-moving tide. Three miles away, the James River carves a quiet, silt-heavy path through the soil, its banks providing a narrow corridor of shade and shelter in an otherwise open expanse. To the northwest, the low depression of Putney Slough holds the seasonal moisture that sustains the local flora, while the distant, calm basin of Lords Lake remains a solitary anchor in the vast, level topography. As dusk falls, the light catches the dust motes and the dry stalks of grain, turning the entire plain into a bruise-colored canvas of deep violets and fading amber.

Bath emerged from the necessity of the rail lines that once threaded through the wheat fields, anchoring the economy to the seasonal rhythm of the harvest. The labor of the soil remains the primary pulse of the region, with grain elevators standing as the vertical sentinels of a trade that has persisted for generations. While the pace of daily life is dictated by the turning of the seasons, there is a communal turn toward the Aberdeen Sports Complex, which serves as a center for activity just five miles away. The character of Bath is forged in the silence of the winter months and the frantic, golden energy of late summer, manifesting in a stillness that demands a certain patience from those who dwell here. It is a place where the architecture of the farmstead and the long, straight lines of the roads emphasize the scale of the land, leaving the individual to feel small yet entirely present under the weight of the enormous, unobstructed sky.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Aviation War Memorial (Monument) — 4.7 mi, 257° W
Aberdeen Sports Complex (Local Recreation) — 5.3 mi, 274° W
Hansen Preserve (stratford Sl (State Conservation Area) — 6.2 mi, 174° S
Putney Slough (State Conservation Area) — 7.1 mi, 041° NE
Moccasin Creek Complex (Local Recreation) — 7.1 mi, 262° W
Kuhnert Arboretum (Local Park) — 7.5 mi, 257° W
Jewett Theater (Theatre) — 7.7 mi, 262° W
Dacotah Prairie Museum (Museum) — 8.0 mi, 268° W
Brown County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 8.8 mi, 304° NW
Brown County Waterfowl Production Area Of Sd (Resource Management Area) — 8.8 mi, 304° NW
Wylie Park (Local Park) — 9.2 mi, 279° W
Old Cannon (Registered Battlefield) — 11.2 mi, 098° E
Sand Lake National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 13.4 mi, 003° N · 39k acres
Richmond Lake Game Production Area (State Recreation Area) — 13.5 mi, 289° W
Richmond Lake (State Recreation Area) — 14.7 mi, 290° W
Amphitheatre (Theatre) — 15.1 mi, 288° W
Colin Campbell Fur Post (Monument) — 25.3 mi, 328° NW
Marshall County Prayer Rock Museum (Museum) — 35.6 mi, 051° NE
Waubay National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 46.3 mi, 094° E · 9,262 acres
Whitetail Trail Observation Deck (Viewpoint) — 59.0 mi, 051° NE
National Waterfowl Production Area (Nature Reserve) — 66.7 mi, 316° NW
Watertown Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 67.2 mi, 123° SE
Dakotaland Museum (Museum) — 76.5 mi, 177° S
Grant County Historical Society Agricultural Museum (Museum) — 78.4 mi, 108° E

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