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Butler South Dakota Map

Explore Butler, 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 Butler, South Dakota

How to Use This Butler, South Dakota Map

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

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

Latitude	45.258845
Longitude	-97.712313
Population	4
Density	5.3 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	57219
Area Code	605
County Seat	Webster
School District	Groton Area School District 06-6

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About Butler, South Dakota

Butler is a locality in Day County, South Dakota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 4. The population density is 5.3 people per km². Butler is located at 45.2588°N, 97.7123°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Butler is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 57219.

Butler exists as a quiet punctuation mark upon the expansive, golden-hued prairie of the northern plains, where the horizon stretches wide enough to swallow the sun whole. It lies 38.3 miles northwest of Watertown, SD (from Watertown, SD: bearing 311°T), and is situated 40.2 miles east-southeast of Aberdeen. Beneath a sky that often seems to possess more depth than the earth itself, the land remains a vast, open tapestry of grasses and sturdy, wind-bent shrubs that sway in the persistent breath of the region. The air here holds a crisp, singular clarity, tasting faintly of dry earth and the distant, cooling influence of Mud Lake, which sits four miles away as a shallow, reflective basin for the migrating birds. Within the nearby Day County Waterfowl Production Area, the landscape hums with the muted, rhythmic theater of seasonal life, offering a sanctuary where the silence is broken only by the sudden, percussive rise of wings against the heavy, still afternoon.

Butler emerged from the relentless ambition of the frontier era, its foundations laid by those who looked at the immense, unyielding soil and saw the promise of harvest. The local economy persists as a reflection of this agrarian heritage, defined by the slow, deliberate work of seasonal cycles and the maintenance of life on the plains. Seven miles to the west, the winding course of Mud Creek cuts a subtle, darker vein through the fields, providing a necessary irrigation path that has sustained the surrounding acreage for generations. Life in Butler moves at the pace of the seasons, governed by the heavy frost of winter and the sudden, vibrant green of spring, where the people find a steady, unadorned contentment in the work of their hands and the immense, shifting light of a territory that demands both patience and respect.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Day County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 3.3 mi, 093° E
Horseshoe Lake (State Recreation Area) — 5.5 mi, 136° SE
Lily (State Conservation Area) — 6.4 mi, 203° SW
Holmquist (State Conservation Area) — 7.6 mi, 024° NE
Cottonwood Lake (State Recreation Area) — 8.9 mi, 176° S
Clark County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 8.9 mi, 152° SE
Waubay National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 19.4 mi, 060° NE · 9,262 acres
Old Cannon (Registered Battlefield) — 22.6 mi, 305° NW
South Dakota Game Fish and Parks - Wildlife Division (State Park) — 25.3 mi, 027° NE
Watertown Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 34.7 mi, 130° SE
Aviation War Memorial (Monument) — 36.8 mi, 292° W
Marshall County Prayer Rock Museum (Museum) — 36.8 mi, 357° N
Jewett Theater (Theatre) — 39.7 mi, 290° W
Dacotah Prairie Museum (Museum) — 40.2 mi, 291° W
Sand Lake National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 40.3 mi, 320° NW · 39k acres
Grant County Historical Society Agricultural Museum (Museum) — 45.8 mi, 104° E
Amphitheatre (Theatre) — 48.0 mi, 294° NW
Samuel J Brown State Monument (Monument) — 48.2 mi, 061° NE
Willard Andrews Lookout (Viewpoint) — 52.1 mi, 079° E
Valley Queen Heritage Center (Museum) — 52.4 mi, 092° E
Mill Theatres (Cinema) — 52.4 mi, 093° E
Donald Christman Toy Museum (Museum) — 52.9 mi, 152° SE
Paul Bunyan's Boat-Anchor (Attraction) — 62.3 mi, 087° E
Sheyenne National Grassland (National Grassland) — 67.9 mi, 031° NE · 70k acres
Touchdown Jesus (Public Artwork) — 79.1 mi, 145° SE
Cinema 5 (Cinema) — 79.2 mi, 145° SE

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