Colman South Dakota Map

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.

About This Colman Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Colman, South Dakota. Coordinates: 43.982472, -96.814497. 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 Colman includes the ZIP code (57017), telephone area code (605), county seat of Moody County (Flandreau), and school district assignment (Colman-Egan School District 50-5).

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.