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Deerfield Colony South Dakota Map

Explore Deerfield Colony, 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 Deerfield Colony, South Dakota

How to Use This Deerfield Colony, South Dakota Map

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

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	Deerfield Colony
State	South Dakota (SD)
County	Edmunds County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	45.588756
Longitude	-98.902917
Population	128
Density	104.5 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	57451
Area Code	605
County Seat	Ipswich
School District	Ipswich School District 22-6

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About Deerfield Colony, South Dakota

Deerfield Colony is a locality in Edmunds County, South Dakota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 128. The population density is 104.5 people per km². Deerfield Colony is located at 45.5888°N, 98.9029°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 57451.

Deerfield Colony emerges from the vast, open expanse of the South Dakota prairie as a quiet collection of structures defined by the persistent, unyielding wind. It lies 21.9 miles west-northwest of Aberdeen, SD (from Aberdeen, SD: bearing 293°T), and is situated 99.2 miles west-northwest of Watertown. The landscape surrounding Deerfield Colony favors a muted palette of tawny grasses and deep, shadowed earth, stretching toward a horizon that feels immense and indifferent to the passing hours. Sunlight here possesses a sharpened clarity, illuminating the gentle rise of the terrain as it shifts toward the distant, hazy blue of the Black Hills to the west. A short distance away, the quiet basin of Crompton Lake holds the sky in its shallow reach, while the winding course of Snake Creek traces a darker, brush-lined path through the fields, providing the only interruption to the relentless, flat geometry of the soil.

Generations have anchored their lives to this land, working the heavy dirt in a rhythm dictated by the changing seasons and the requirements of communal agricultural production. The economic pulse of the region remains tied to the cycles of harvest and the patient stewardship of livestock, maintaining a tradition that prioritizes collective labor over the frantic pace of modern commerce. Those who wander seven miles outward might find the quiet, protected spaces of Rosette, a SCA that offers a rare pause in the otherwise cultivated plains. Daily life here moves with a deliberate, steady gravity, where the sound of a distant tractor or the low rustle of ripening grain serves as the primary language of the neighborhood, grounding the spirit in the tangible reality of the earth.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Rosette (State Conservation Area) — 6.5 mi, 255° W
Edmunds County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 8.3 mi, 160° S
Ordway/Mcpherson/Johnson'S Gulch Fee (Conservation Area) — 10.5 mi, 307° NW
Light (State Conservation Area) — 10.7 mi, 137° SE
Mina (State Recreation Area) — 11.5 mi, 140° SE
Richmond Lake (State Recreation Area) — 13.2 mi, 105° E
Amphitheatre (Theatre) — 14.1 mi, 105° E
Mcpherson County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 16.1 mi, 333° NW
Colin Campbell Fur Post (Monument) — 19.7 mi, 048° NE
Dacotah Prairie Museum (Museum) — 21.9 mi, 113° SE
Jewett Theater (Theatre) — 22.5 mi, 115° SE
Aviation War Memorial (Monument) — 25.3 mi, 112° E
Sand Lake National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 29.0 mi, 080° E · 39k acres
Old Cannon (Registered Battlefield) — 40.3 mi, 104° E
National Waterfowl Production Area (Nature Reserve) — 43.6 mi, 335° NW
Marshall County Prayer Rock Museum (Museum) — 57.4 mi, 075° E
Mile 173 Border Monument (Monument) — 64.9 mi, 293° NW
Sargent County Waterfowl Production Area (National Wildlife Refuge) — 65.1 mi, 050° NE · 646 acres
Beaver Lake State Park (State Park) — 65.6 mi, 329° NW
Walleye Up Statue (Public Artwork) — 74.2 mi, 267° W
The Klein Museum (Museum) — 74.9 mi, 269° W
Whitetail Trail Observation Deck (Viewpoint) — 79.1 mi, 068° E

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