Explore Peever Flats, 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 Peever Flats, 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 Peever Flats.
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 | Peever Flats |
| State | South Dakota (SD) |
| County | Roberts County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 45.52385 |
| Longitude | -96.93591 |
| Population | 129 |
| Density | 664.1 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 57257 |
| Area Code | 605 |
| County Seat | Sisseton |
| School District | Sisseton School District 54-2 |
Peever Flats emerges from the vast, open prairie as a subtle indentation in the earth, where the horizon stretches wide enough to swallow the sun whole in a haze of bruised purple and gold. It lies 44.0 miles north-northeast of Watertown, SD (from Watertown, SD: bearing 11°T), and is situated 11.2 miles south-southeast of Sisseton. The landscape surrounding Peever Flats is defined by a slow, rhythmic transition of grasses that lean under the persistent weight of the wind, bowing toward the low-lying moisture of the nearby Peever Slough + 40. Only a mile to the west, the Jorgenson River carves a narrow, serpentine path through the soil, its banks rimmed with thickets that hold the morning frost long after the sun has climbed the sky. To the east, the ground rises with a patient, tectonic indifference, eventually giving way toward the distant, shadowy suggestion of Big Coulee, while the quiet waters of Mud Lake wait three miles away, mirroring the vast, empty clarity of the South Dakota sky.
Agriculture remains the pulse of the region, where the turning of the seasons dictates the cadence of every workday and the heavy scent of turned earth defines the autumn air. The history of Peever Flats is etched into the iron-wrought fences and the fading paint of grain silos that stand like monoliths against the encroaching gray of winter. Life here moves with a deliberate, measured gravity, shaped by the isolation of the plains and the necessity of self-reliance that has persisted since the first homesteaders broke the sod. Though the modern world hums along the edges of the grid, the daily existence in Peever Flats remains anchored to the land, a persistent, quiet endurance that finds its beauty in the stark, unadorned truth of a landscape that demands nothing more than respect.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Peever Flats, South Dakota. Coordinates: 45.52385, -96.93591. 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 Peever Flats includes the ZIP code (57257), telephone area code (605), county seat of Roberts County (Sisseton), and school district assignment (Sisseton School District 54-2).
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. |