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Gayville South Dakota Map

Explore Gayville, 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 Gayville, South Dakota

How to Use This Gayville, South Dakota Map

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

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

Latitude	42.888933
Longitude	-97.173726
Population	382
Density	719.5 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Codes	57754, 57031
Area Code	605
County Seat	Deadwood
School District	Gayville-Volin School District 63-1

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About Gayville, South Dakota

Gayville is a locality in Lawrence County, South Dakota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 382. The population density is 719.5 people per km². Gayville is located at 42.8889°N, 97.1737°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Gayville is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 57754, 57031.

Gayville anchors itself upon the quiet, stubborn earth of the plains, where the horizon stretches thin and pale under an immense, unblinking sky. It lies 9.6 miles south-southeast of Spearfish, SD (from Spearfish, SD: bearing 149°T), and is situated 1.3 miles north of Lead. Deadwood Creek carves a shallow, persistent path through the local terrain, its waters marking a subtle depression in the flatland that feeds into the broader, ancient rhythm of the soil. Blacktail Gulch defines the immediate topography, a series of earthen folds that catch the long, golden shadows of late afternoon, while the distant, jagged silhouette of the Black Hills rises in the west like a promise of heavier country. Sunlight here has a peculiar, dry clarity, sharpening the edges of the grain silos and the weathered fence posts that segment the horizon into manageable, quiet rectangles.

Gayville emerged from the expansion of the rail era, a mid-continental waypoint where the economy has long been tethered to the patient cycles of agriculture and the seasonal pulse of the harvest. Residents often walk the perimeter of Irwin Street Park, a patch of green that offers a modest, manicured respite from the surrounding expanse of farmland. Life here moves with the deliberate pace of a season, indifferent to the urgent clamor of larger hubs, finding its own significance in the maintenance of local roads and the steady, quiet work of the fields. While the far-off rush of Bridal Veil Falls or the rugged paths of the Big Hill Ski Trail draw those seeking a different intensity, Gayville remains grounded in the quiet, honest labor of the prairie, where the wind carries the scent of dry grass and the persistent, low-frequency hum of a world that is content to simply be.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Gayville Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 0.2 mi, 019° N
Volin Clay (State Conservation Area) — 2.9 mi, 360° N
Vermillion Prairie Fee (Conservation Area) — 4.5 mi, 061° NE
Missouri National Recreational River (National Recreation Area) — 7.6 mi, 169° S · 870 acres
Wiseman Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 9.4 mi, 158° S
Spirit Mound (State Recreation Area) — 10.6 mi, 093° E
Marindahl Lake (State Recreation Area) — 10.9 mi, 338° N
Riverside Park Amphitheatre (Theatre) — 11.0 mi, 262° W
Lewis And Clark Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 11.3 mi, 262° W
Cinema Magic (Cinema) — 11.5 mi, 271° W
Austin-Whittemore House Museum (Museum) — 14.3 mi, 122° SE
Corps of Discovery (Public Artwork) — 14.3 mi, 118° SE
Coyote Theatre (Cinema) — 14.4 mi, 122° SE
Frost Wilderness (State Wilderness) — 14.5 mi, 131° SE
Oscar Howe Gallery (Gallery) — 14.6 mi, 120° SE
Lewis and Clark Lake (Recreation Area) — 15.9 mi, 260° W
Oak Overlook (Viewpoint) — 16.5 mi, 137° SE
Cedar County Historical Marker (Monument) — 19.1 mi, 194° S
Hartington, Home of Two Nebraska Governors Historical Marker (Monument) — 19.2 mi, 195° S
South Dakota Game Fish and Parks - Wildlife Division (State Park) — 25.6 mi, 285° W
Ponca State Park (State Park) — 26.7 mi, 127° SE
Warren Wilderness (State Wilderness) — 27.9 mi, 122° SE
Union County Historical Museum (Museum) — 28.0 mi, 119° SE
Broken Kettle Grassland Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 33.1 mi, 113° SE
Calliope Village (Attraction) — 35.6 mi, 076° E
Dixon County Museum (Museum) — 36.7 mi, 153° SE
Canton Performing Arts Center (Theatre) — 41.2 mi, 045° NE
The Railroad Museum (Museum) — 43.2 mi, 125° SE
Canton Mounds (Historic Ruins) — 43.8 mi, 046° NE
Ponca Tribe Museum (Museum) — 44.5 mi, 258° W

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