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Colman South Dakota Map

Explore Colman, 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 Colman, South Dakota

How to Use This Colman, South Dakota Map

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

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

Latitude	43.982472
Longitude	-96.814497
Population	634
Density	129.9 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	57017
Area Code	605
County Seat	Flandreau
School District	Colman-Egan School District 50-5

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About Colman, South Dakota

Colman is a locality in Moody County, South Dakota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 634. The population density is 129.9 people per km². Colman is located at 43.9825°N, 96.8145°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Colman is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 57017.

Colman occupies a quiet expanse of the eastern prairie, where the horizon stretches wide under a sky that seems to possess more depth than the earth itself. It lies 22.7 miles south of Brookings, SD (from Brookings, SD: bearing 182°T), and is situated 15.0 miles east of Madison. The landscape surrounding Colman is defined by the steady, rhythmic swells of farmland and the subtle encroachment of wild grasses, punctuated only by the distant, hazy suggestion of the Cactus Hills rising against the western sky. Moisture gathers in the low basins nearby, feeding the reeds that cluster along the edges of Mud Lake and the quiet, persistent flow of Bachelor Creek. During the long, amber hours of late afternoon, the light catches the golden grain fields, turning the stalks into a sea of flickering bronze that whispers against the fence lines.

Colman emerged from the expansion of the nineteenth-century rail lines, serving as a vital node for the transport of the harvest that remains the lifeblood of the local economy. The legacy of the early settlers persists in the sturdy, utilitarian architecture of the main street and the vast, towering elevators that mark the edge of the sky like sentinels of industry. Beyond the quiet activity of the grain trade, the land finds a different kind of purpose at the Moody County Waterfowl Production Area, where the pulse of the seasons is measured by the arrival and departure of migratory birds. Life in Colman moves with a deliberate, measured pace, grounded in the seasonal cycle of planting and reaping and the deep, silent resilience of a people who have learned to thrive in the expansive, open quiet of the high plains.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Fireman Statue (Public Artwork) — 0.0 mi, 096° E
Moody County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 1.4 mi, 333° NW
Sioux Prairie Fee (Conservation Area) — 3.4 mi, 027° NE
Wentworth (State Conservation Area) — 3.7 mi, 274° W
Olson Lake (State Recreation Area) — 4.3 mi, 343° N
Lake County Waterfowl Production Area Of Sd (Resource Management Area) — 4.6 mi, 240° SW
Boles Slough (State Conservation Area) — 7.2 mi, 019° N
Brandt Lake (State Recreation Area) — 7.3 mi, 231° SW
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 11.7 mi, 153° SE
Madison Veterans Honor Park (Monument) — 14.7 mi, 274° W
Prairie Village (Museum) — 17.6 mi, 275° W
The Prairie Village, Herman & Milwaukee Railroad (Museum) — 17.8 mi, 276° W
Split Rock Creek State Park (State Park) — 22.3 mi, 107° E
Cinema 5 (Cinema) — 22.8 mi, 002° N
Garretson Area Historical Society and Museum (Museum) — 24.1 mi, 140° SE
Pipestone National Monument (National Monument) — 24.1 mi, 085° E · 302 acres
Exhibit Quarry (Viewpoint) — 24.4 mi, 085° E
Sundance Site (Monument) — 24.5 mi, 084° E
Three Maidens (Historic Ruins) — 24.6 mi, 086° E
King & Queen Rock (Attraction) — 25.0 mi, 144° SE
Johnson School (Historic Ruins) — 25.1 mi, 189° S
Northern Tallgrass Prairie National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 25.2 mi, 121° SE · 12k acres
The Amidon Affair (Monument) — 28.7 mi, 170° S
The Coliseum (Theatre) — 30.0 mi, 172° S
Museum of Visual Materials (Museum) — 30.0 mi, 172° S
Old Courthouse Museum (Museum) — 30.1 mi, 172° S
Ipso Gallery at Fresh Produce (Gallery) — 30.1 mi, 172° S
Exposure Gallery & Studios (Gallery) — 30.1 mi, 172° S
Orpheum Theater Center (Theatre) — 30.2 mi, 172° S
Blue Mounds State Park (State Park) — 35.8 mi, 123° SE

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