Explore Dimock, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Dimock, 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 Dimock.
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 | Dimock |
| State | South Dakota (SD) |
| County | Hutchinson County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 43.474152 |
| Longitude | -97.985628 |
| Population | 137 |
| Density | 307.5 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 57331 |
| Area Code | 605 |
| County Seat | Olivet |
| School District | Parkston School District 33-3 |
Dimock emerges from the vast, open expanse of the South Dakota prairie as a quiet congregation of structures framed by the expansive, shifting light of the plains. It lies 16.4 miles south of Mitchell, SD (from Mitchell, SD: bearing 172°T), and is situated 51.1 miles northwest of Yankton. The horizon here is a wide, unencumbered line where the sky exerts a heavy, blue pressure on the land, and the soil beneath Dimock holds the deep, dark fertility of the tallgrass legacy. Only a mile away, the South Fork Twelvemile Creek winds through the earth, a thin, intermittent vein that sustains the local flora, while three miles distant, the waters of Lake Dimock gather in a stillness that mirrors the turning of the seasons. To the south, the landscape is punctuated by the quiet, managed wildness of the Davison County Waterfowl Production Area, where the reeds and grasses bend in rhythmic unison under the steady, prevailing winds.
Agricultural industry defines the enduring character of Dimock, where the economy remains tethered to the seasonal cycles of planting and harvest that have marked the region for generations. The architecture of the local grain elevators stands as a functional monument to this heritage, rising above the flat fields like sentinels of a trade that requires patience and a keen eye on the weather. Life in Dimock moves with the deliberate pace of a rural center, where the social fabric is stitched together by the shared labor of the fields and the seasonal migrations of wildlife through the nearby protected lands. Here, the evening light often settles in long, amber streaks across the fallow ground, casting a clarity over the surroundings that makes the simple, utilitarian work of the day feel substantial and rooted in the soil.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Dimock, South Dakota. Coordinates: 43.474152, -97.985628. 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 Dimock includes the ZIP code (57331), telephone area code (605), county seat of Hutchinson County (Olivet), and school district assignment (Parkston School District 33-3).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
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.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |