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Pearl Creek Colony South Dakota Map

Explore Pearl Creek 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 Pearl Creek Colony, South Dakota

How to Use This Pearl Creek Colony, South Dakota Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Pearl Creek 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 Pearl Creek 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	Pearl Creek Colony
State	South Dakota (SD)
County	Beadle County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	44.328589
Longitude	-97.913696
Population	99
Density	108.3 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	57353
Area Code	605
County Seat	Huron
School District	Iroquois School District 02-3

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About Pearl Creek Colony, South Dakota

Pearl Creek Colony is a locality in Beadle County, South Dakota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 99. The population density is 108.3 people per km². Pearl Creek Colony is located at 44.3286°N, 97.9137°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 57353.

Pearl Creek Colony stretches across a vast, open expanse of the South Dakota prairie, where the horizon pulls the sky downward to touch the earth in a seamless, unbroken line. It lies 15.0 miles east of Huron, SD (from Huron, SD: bearing 99°T), and is situated 55.1 miles west of Brookings. The Middle Pearl Creek carves a patient path through the landscape, its banks lined with the muted greens of native grasses and the occasional stubborn thicket that defies the insistent wind. In the quiet hours of dusk, the light here takes on a bruised, amber quality, casting long, thin shadows that stretch across the fields until they dissolve into the deepening gray of the plains. To the distant west, the land remains largely flat, an immense stage for the weather that rolls in from the plains with a slow, deliberate gravity, while the Beadle County Waterfowl Production Area provides a sanctuary of wetlands only a few miles away, where the air is often filled with the sudden, frantic beating of wings above the reeds.

Agriculture remains the singular pulse of Pearl Creek Colony, defining the daily rhythm of life through the seasonal labor of planting and harvest. The history of the region is written in the soil and the sturdy, pragmatic architecture of the farmsteads that have anchored families to this acreage for generations. Life moves at the pace of the seasons, dictated by the turning of the earth and the requirements of the crops, fostering a culture of quiet resilience and neighborly reliance. While the solitude of the prairie is absolute, the proximity of Spirit Lake, eighteen miles distant, offers a rare shift in the terrain, providing a mirror for the wide, expansive sky. Here, the economy relies on the steady, unadorned production of the land, keeping the character of Pearl Creek Colony tethered to the fundamental cycles of growth and the persistent, elemental beauty of the high plains.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Beadle County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 3.4 mi, 343° N
Iroquois (State Conservation Area) — 4.2 mi, 072° E
Cavour Lake (State Recreation Area) — 8.0 mi, 312° NW
Manchester Town Monument (Monument) — 10.0 mi, 073° E
Sanborn County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 10.0 mi, 162° S
Rifle-calahan (State Conservation Area) — 14.3 mi, 191° S
World's Largest Pheasant (Monument) — 14.4 mi, 282° W
Dakotaland Museum (Museum) — 15.8 mi, 279° W
Mud Lake (State Recreation Area) — 18.4 mi, 056° NE
Watson School (Historic Ruins) — 38.3 mi, 262° W
Armed Services Memorial (Monument) — 38.7 mi, 063° NE
Donald Christman Toy Museum (Museum) — 38.8 mi, 063° NE
Starlite Drive-In Theatre (Cinema) — 40.2 mi, 188° S
Flame of Wisdom (Public Artwork) — 40.9 mi, 188° S
Domsch School (Historic Ruins) — 41.2 mi, 264° W
Ron and Sheilah Gates Auditorium (Arts Centre) — 42.6 mi, 187° S
The Prairie Village, Herman & Milwaukee Railroad (Museum) — 43.0 mi, 121° SE
Prairie Village (Museum) — 43.2 mi, 121° SE
McGovern Legacy Museum (Museum) — 43.9 mi, 188° S
Rodeo Bunny (Attraction) — 44.1 mi, 187° S
Saaranen Beach (State Park) — 45.0 mi, 066° NE
Cinema 5 (Cinema) — 55.0 mi, 091° E
Crow Creek Site (Registered Battlefield) — 74.3 mi, 252° W
Old Cannon (Registered Battlefield) — 77.6 mi, 353° N
Waubay National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 78.7 mi, 020° N · 9,262 acres
Lake Andes National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 79.0 mi, 198° S · 2,043 acres
The Coliseum (Theatre) — 79.7 mi, 132° SE

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