Explore Belvidere, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Belvidere, 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 Belvidere.
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 | Belvidere |
| State | South Dakota (SD) |
| County | Jackson County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| Latitude | 43.831937 |
| Longitude | -101.271531 |
| Population | 46 |
| Density | 23.4 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 57521 |
| Area Code | 605 |
| County Seat | Kadoka |
| School District | Kadoka School District 35-2 |
Belvidere claims the high, open expanse of the Great Plains where the sky exerts a heavy, blue pressure upon the earth. It lies 58.8 miles southwest of Pierre, SD (from Pierre, SD: bearing 231°T), and is situated 57.3 miles southwest of Fort Pierre. Brave Bull Creek carves a shallow, wandering path through the parched soil near the settlement, its intermittent flow tracing the slow erosion of the prairie floor. To the west, the long, jagged silhouette of The Devils Backbone haunts the horizon, a dark serration against the fading light of dusk. The air here carries a dry, sharp clarity, smelling faintly of cured grasses and the cooling dust of late summer, while the vast, unbroken horizon demands a singular, quiet attention from anyone who walks the perimeter of the fields.
Belvidere marks a junction of endurance where the rhythm of the seasons dictates the pulse of the local economy. Agriculture remains the quiet engine of the region, with the nearby Buffalo Gap National Grassland serving as a reminder of the raw, uncultivated character that defined this frontier long before the arrival of the rail line. Beyond the immediate reach of the town, the depression of Brown Flat offers a slight respite from the prevailing flatness, though the scale of the landscape continues to dwarf the small, weathered structures that cluster along the tracks. Life here moves in accordance with the demands of the soil and the grazing herds, a steady, unadorned existence that finds its beauty in the stubborn persistence of the prairie and the golden, horizontal light that bathes the plains before nightfall.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Belvidere, South Dakota. Coordinates: 43.831937, -101.271531. 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 Belvidere includes the ZIP code (57521), telephone area code (605), county seat of Jackson County (Kadoka), and school district assignment (Kadoka School District 35-2).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
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.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |