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Claire City South Dakota Map

Explore Claire City, 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 Claire City, South Dakota

How to Use This Claire City, South Dakota Map

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

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	Claire City
State	South Dakota (SD)
County	Roberts County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	45.857181
Longitude	-97.103697
Population	82
Density	173.0 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	57224
Area Code	605
County Seat	Sisseton
School District	Sisseton School District 54-2

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About Claire City, South Dakota

Claire City is a locality in Roberts County, South Dakota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 82. The population density is 173.0 people per km². Claire City is located at 45.8572°N, 97.1037°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Claire City is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 57224.

Claire City emerges from the vast, open expanse of the northeastern prairie like a quiet geometry of grain elevators and low-slung rooftops against a sky that seems to possess more depth than the earth itself. It lies 66.2 miles north of Watertown, SD (from Watertown, SD: bearing 0°T), and is situated 13.6 miles north of Sisseton. The landscape surrounding Claire City favors the subtle, expansive reach of grasslands, occasionally broken by the modest, winding path of the Little Minnesota River just a mile away. To the west, the horizon holds the faint, jagged suggestion of Pleasant Peak, while the nearby Roberts County Waterfowl Production Area serves as a sanctuary where the wind hums through tall, golden stalks. The light at dusk here is a peculiar, bruised lavender that bleeds across the fields, lending a sudden, startling clarity to the texture of the soil and the stark silhouettes of distant trees.

Agriculture dictates the pulse of Claire City, an economy rooted firmly in the yield of the surrounding plains and the persistent, seasonal labor of the harvest. History lingers in the skeletal remains of old rail lines and the sturdy, unadorned architecture that reflects the pragmatic spirit of those who first broke this sod. Beyond the immediate grid, the terrain deepens into the geological curiosity of Sieche Hollow, while the nearby waters of Indian Slough provide a stillness that mirrors the deliberate, measured pace of local life. Residents move with an awareness of the climate’s harsh, winter-bound reality, finding a peculiar beauty in the way the frost crystallizes on fence wire, turning the mundane boundaries of the prairie into intricate, ephemeral lattices of ice.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Roberts County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 1.6 mi, 180° S
Richland County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 5.9 mi, 000° N
Dobberstein (State Conservation Area) — 7.2 mi, 087° E
Knebel Slough (State Conservation Area) — 7.4 mi, 125° SE
Sica Hollow (State Recreation Area) — 9.0 mi, 217° SW
Park Lake (State Recreation Area) — 9.8 mi, 329° NW
Mile 14 North Dakota South Dakota boundary marker (Monument) — 13.5 mi, 066° NE
Tewaukon National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 14.0 mi, 313° NW · 14k acres
Whitetail Trail Observation Deck (Viewpoint) — 16.5 mi, 309° NW
Sheyenne National Grassland (National Grassland) — 17.5 mi, 020° N · 70k acres
Mile 8 North Dakota South Dakota boundary marker (Monument) — 19.1 mi, 073° E
Samuel J Brown State Monument (Monument) — 22.1 mi, 145° SE
South Dakota Game Fish and Parks - Wildlife Division (State Park) — 24.9 mi, 223° SW
Waubay National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 30.7 mi, 198° S · 9,262 acres
Marshall County Prayer Rock Museum (Museum) — 31.5 mi, 262° W
Big Stone Lake State Park (State Park) — 33.1 mi, 146° SE
Wilkin County Museum (Museum) — 37.6 mi, 041° NE
Valley Queen Heritage Center (Museum) — 49.4 mi, 153° SE
Grant County Historical Museum (Museum) — 49.5 mi, 153° SE
Mill Theatres (Cinema) — 49.5 mi, 153° SE
Paul Bunyan's Boat-Anchor (Attraction) — 50.5 mi, 140° SE
Old Cannon (Registered Battlefield) — 55.8 mi, 240° SW
A Point in Time (Public Artwork) — 56.7 mi, 058° NE
Roosevelt Hall (Theatre) — 58.6 mi, 086° E
Broken Down Dam (Historic Ruins) — 59.8 mi, 060° NE
Fire Museum (Museum) — 63.9 mi, 031° NE
Jewett Theater (Theatre) — 72.2 mi, 248° W
Art of the Lakes (Gallery) — 72.8 mi, 066° NE
Minuteman II ICBM (Attraction) — 73.8 mi, 011° N

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