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Dante South Dakota Map

Explore Dante, 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 Dante, South Dakota

How to Use This Dante, South Dakota Map

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

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	Dante
State	South Dakota (SD)
County	Charles Mix County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	43.038605
Longitude	-98.184243
Population	75
Density	58.0 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	57329
Area Code	605
County Seat	Lake Andes
School District	Wagner School District 11-4

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About Dante, South Dakota

Dante is a locality in Charles Mix County, South Dakota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 75. The population density is 58.0 people per km². Dante is located at 43.0386°N, 98.1842°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Dante is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 57329.

Dante occupies a quiet stretch of high prairie where the earth seems to exhale in long, rhythmic swells of grass and soil. It lies 41.4 miles west-northwest of Yankton, SD (from Yankton, SD: bearing 286°T), and is situated 19.3 miles northwest of Springfield. Choteau Creek carves a shallow, meandering path through the terrain just beyond the edge of the settlement, its waters drawing a dark, persistent line against the pale gold of the late summer fields. Two miles away, the surface of Lake Dante catches the sharpening light of the afternoon, acting as a mirror for the vast, unencumbered sky that dictates the mood of the day. To the distant horizon, the faint, hazy suggestion of Old Baldy rises like a blunt reminder of the rugged geological shifts that shaped this wider region. The air here carries the dry, clean scent of crushed wheat and sun-warmed earth, a stillness that feels heavy with the weight of the seasons.

Dante remains defined by the persistent labor of the soil, its economy rooted deep in the cycles of grain and livestock that have sustained the families of the plains for generations. The legacy of the homesteaders lingers in the sturdy, weathered architecture that punctuates the grid, standing as a quiet record of resilience against the sweeping winds. Nearby, the Dante Lake Wildlife Management Area preserves a fragment of the native landscape, offering a sanctuary where the tallgrass ecosystem persists in its original, tangled complexity. Life in Dante moves with the deliberate pace of a long-settled rural outpost, where the primary social currents are measured by the harvest and the slow turning of the calendar. Even as the modern world encroaches, the horizon remains dominated by the honest, unadorned geometry of silos and fence lines, grounding the spirit of the place in the essential, elemental work of the land.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Dante Lake Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 1.8 mi, 003° N
Charles Mix County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 2.6 mi, 188° S
Bon Homme County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 8.6 mi, 036° NE
Sorenson Game Production Area (State Conservation Area) — 8.8 mi, 051° NE
Red Lake (State Recreation Area) — 10.8 mi, 296° NW
Yankton Sioux Monument (Monument) — 12.7 mi, 232° SW
Lewis And Clark Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 12.7 mi, 173° S
Lake Andes National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 14.6 mi, 303° NW · 2,043 acres
Francis Case Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 14.9 mi, 240° SW
Delmont Historical Society (Museum) — 15.8 mi, 004° N
Karl E. Mundt National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 16.5 mi, 260° W · 2,165 acres
North Point Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 17.6 mi, 278° W
Niobrara State Park (State Park) — 18.8 mi, 164° S
Ponca Tribe Museum (Museum) — 21.4 mi, 159° S
South Dakota Game Fish and Parks - Wildlife Division (State Park) — 26.0 mi, 097° E
Verdigre Heritage Museum (Museum) — 31.3 mi, 166° S
Gavins Point (Viewpoint) — 34.3 mi, 111° E
Cinema Magic (Cinema) — 40.9 mi, 104° E
Riverside Park Amphitheatre (Theatre) — 41.9 mi, 106° E
Ancient Tortoise (Public Artwork) — 42.7 mi, 178° S
Rodeo Bunny (Attraction) — 46.1 mi, 011° N
McGovern Legacy Museum (Museum) — 46.2 mi, 010° N
Davison County Memorial (Monument) — 47.3 mi, 010° N
Home of the Second Corn Palace (Monument) — 47.3 mi, 010° N
Ron and Sheilah Gates Auditorium (Arts Centre) — 47.6 mi, 010° N
Starlite Drive-In Theatre (Cinema) — 50.0 mi, 009° N
Klown Doll Museum (Museum) — 51.5 mi, 157° SE
Oscar Howe Gallery (Gallery) — 66.1 mi, 105° E
Johnson School (Historic Ruins) — 76.6 mi, 058° NE
Grandview School (Historic Ruins) — 78.2 mi, 307° NW

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