Explore Brentwood Colony, 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 Brentwood Colony, 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 Brentwood Colony.
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 | Brentwood Colony |
| State | South Dakota (SD) |
| County | Faulk County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 45.15229 |
| Longitude | -99.301026 |
| Population | 116 |
| Density | 51.4 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 57438 |
| Area Code | 605 |
| County Seat | Faulkton |
| School District | Faulkton School District 24-4 |
Brentwood Colony occupies a stretch of high, open prairie where the horizon pulls the sky taut against the earth. It lies 45.1 miles west-southwest of Aberdeen, SD (from Aberdeen, SD: bearing 242°T), and is situated 76.3 miles northwest of Huron. The landscape is defined by the steady, rhythmic expansion of grasses that shift from a deep, sun-bleached gold in late summer to a stark, brittle gray when the frost takes hold. To the west, the faint, jagged silhouettes of the Bald Mountains trace a thin line against the fading light of dusk, appearing more like a memory of stone than a physical presence. The air here holds a particular clarity, sharp and dry, which allows the golden hour to linger, illuminating the stalks of wheat and wild prairie flora until they glow with a quiet, inner intensity.
Brentwood Colony operates within the long, disciplined traditions of agricultural life, where the local economy turns on the cycle of planting and harvest. The rhythms of the day are governed by the labor of the soil, a persistence that has defined the character of the people since the earliest settlements took root in the basin. Water serves as the lifeblood of the region, drawn toward the distant flow of South Fork Snake Creek, while the nearby Faulk County Waterfowl Production Area provides a sanctuary for the migratory birds that pass through the flyway each season. Residents often look toward Clark Lake when the heat of the afternoon settles, finding in its stillness a brief reprieve from the demands of the fields. Life here is measured not by the passage of hours, but by the slow, inevitable turning of the seasons across the plains.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Brentwood Colony, South Dakota. Coordinates: 45.15229, -99.301026. 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 Brentwood Colony includes the ZIP code (57438), telephone area code (605), county seat of Faulk County (Faulkton), and school district assignment (Faulkton School District 24-4).
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. |