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Milbank South Dakota Map

Explore Milbank, 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 Milbank, South Dakota

How to Use This Milbank, South Dakota Map

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

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

Latitude	45.219131
Longitude	-96.635617
Population	3,544
Density	493.3 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	57252
Area Code	605
County Seat	Milbank
School District	Milbank School District 25-4

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About Milbank, South Dakota

Milbank is a locality in Grant County, South Dakota, United States. It has a population of approximately 3,544. The population density is 493.3 people per km². Milbank is located at 45.2191°N, 96.6356°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Milbank is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 57252.

Milbank emerges from the open expanse of the prairie, defined by the steady, unassuming presence of the South Fork Whetstone River as it traces a path through the flat, fertile earth. It lies 32.2 miles northeast of Watertown, SD (from Watertown, SD: bearing 46°T), and is situated 11.0 miles west-southwest of Ortonville. The landscape holds the wide, indifferent silence of the Great Plains, where the sky exerts a heavy, blue pressure upon the horizon and the wind carries the dry scent of grasses. To the east, the terrain stretches toward the low-slung horizon, while the distant Antelope Hills haunt the western view like a faint, serrated memory of higher ground. Life here gathers near the quiet waters of Lake Farley, where the light at dusk settles in long, bruised purples across the water, turning the reeds into silhouettes of ink against the cooling air.

Milbank draws its identity from the granite industry that has long anchored its economy, a trade that carved a hard, enduring character into the local labor. Streets follow the patterns laid down by early rail expansion, maintaining a deliberate pace that ignores the frantic acceleration of the outside world. Within the boundaries of Unknown Park, the land offers a brief respite of green, a place where the stillness of the afternoon is broken only by the occasional rustle of cottonwoods. The people here move with the measured patience of those who watch the seasons shift the color of the fields from gold to fallow, finding a quiet dignity in the work of the soil and the stone.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Mill Theatres (Cinema) — 0.0 mi, 294° NW
Grant County Historical Museum (Museum) — 0.1 mi, 045° NE
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 0.1 mi, 226° SW
Valley Queen Heritage Center (Museum) — 0.2 mi, 351° N
Lake Farley Park (Local Park) — 0.6 mi, 333° NW
Milbank Grist Mill (Monument) — 0.8 mi, 075° E
Grant County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 4.1 mi, 081° E
Holtquist Slough (State Conservation Area) — 4.6 mi, 065° NE
South Dakota Game Fish and Parks - Wildlife Division (State Park) — 4.8 mi, 170° S
Big Stone Power Plant Game Production Area (State Conservation Area) — 7.8 mi, 046° NE
Roberts County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 9.2 mi, 036° NE
Big Stone National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 9.8 mi, 069° E · 23k acres
Big Stone Ponds Game Production Area (State Recreation Area) — 10.7 mi, 040° NE
Paul Bunyan's Boat-Anchor (Attraction) — 11.2 mi, 061° NE
Big Stone Lake (Recreation Area) — 11.5 mi, 016° N
Big Stone Lake State Park (State Park) — 12.5 mi, 021° N
Willard Andrews Lookout (Viewpoint) — 12.7 mi, 355° N
Mud Lake (State Recreation Area) — 14.3 mi, 187° S
Lac qui Parle County Museum (Museum) — 26.0 mi, 124° SE
Samuel J Brown State Monument (Monument) — 27.8 mi, 339° N
Watertown Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 32.6 mi, 233° SW
Arv Hus Museum (Museum) — 36.0 mi, 102° E
Canby Depot Museum (Museum) — 39.4 mi, 153° SE
Boyd House (Attraction) — 44.0 mi, 125° SE
HGC Eagle Carving (Public Artwork) — 49.8 mi, 169° S
Roosevelt Hall (Theatre) — 59.9 mi, 037° NE
Minnesota Machinery Museum (Attraction) — 61.6 mi, 126° SE
Cinema 5 (Cinema) — 63.2 mi, 187° S
Ordway Prairie (Nature Reserve) — 68.9 mi, 076° E
Lake Johanna Esker Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 70.9 mi, 078° E

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