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Silver Lake Colony South Dakota Map

Explore Silver Lake 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 Silver Lake Colony, South Dakota

How to Use This Silver Lake Colony, South Dakota Map

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

Latitude	44.865552
Longitude	-97.608671
Population	7
Density	11.4 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	57225
Area Code	605
County Seat	Clark
School District	Clark School District 12-2

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About Silver Lake Colony, South Dakota

Silver Lake Colony is a locality in Clark County, South Dakota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 7. The population density is 11.4 people per km². Silver Lake Colony is located at 44.8656°N, 97.6087°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 57225.

Silver Lake Colony endures upon the expansive, wind-swept plains where the horizon stretches toward an infinite, pale sky. It lies 24.6 miles west of Watertown, SD (from Watertown, SD: bearing 266°T), and is situated 58.8 miles southeast of Aberdeen. The land around Silver Lake Colony presents a quiet authority, defined by the subtle shifts of the prairie and the distant, hazy silhouette of Doland Ridge marking the far western edge of sight. Only a mile away, the quiet acres of Stewart offer a sanctuary of native grasses that ripple in the persistent breeze, grounding the geography in a stark, unadorned beauty. While Dry Lake Number One lies four miles distant, its presence is felt more in the moisture of the dawn air than in the sight of water, and the slow, deliberate turn of the seasons dictates the color of the earth, shifting from the deep, rich brown of spring thaw to the bleached gold of late summer.

Agriculture remains the singular pulse of the region, as the residents organize their lives around the cycles of planting and harvest that have sustained these fields for generations. This Hutterite colony operates as a self-sufficient collective, where communal industry and a disciplined adherence to tradition create a rhythm distinct from the frantic pace of the wider world. The labor of the hands—tending to livestock, managing the vast tracts of arable soil, and maintaining the structures that house the collective—forms the bedrock of the local economy. Far from the banks of Foster Creek, which winds its way through the landscape nine miles to the south, the people here maintain a quiet, focused existence, finding a profound sense of purpose in the maintenance of their heritage and the stewardship of the land beneath their feet.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Stewart (State Conservation Area) — 1.3 mi, 349° N
Clark County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 4.0 mi, 018° N
Christopherson Game Production Area (State Conservation Area) — 4.5 mi, 183° S
Dry Lake (State Recreation Area) — 5.6 mi, 320° NW
Hamlin County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 7.5 mi, 130° SE
Long Lake (State Recreation Area) — 10.5 mi, 060° NE
Watertown Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 22.0 mi, 077° E
Armed Services Memorial (Monument) — 27.6 mi, 135° SE
Donald Christman Toy Museum (Museum) — 27.8 mi, 135° SE
Manchester Town Monument (Monument) — 34.7 mi, 189° S
Waubay National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 38.7 mi, 018° N · 9,262 acres
Grant County Historical Society Agricultural Museum (Museum) — 42.7 mi, 068° E
Dakotaland Museum (Museum) — 46.3 mi, 222° SW
Old Cannon (Registered Battlefield) — 46.5 mi, 329° NW
Mill Theatres (Cinema) — 53.4 mi, 062° NE
Valley Queen Heritage Center (Museum) — 53.5 mi, 062° NE
Touchdown Jesus (Public Artwork) — 55.1 mi, 133° SE
Cinema 5 (Cinema) — 55.1 mi, 134° SE
Jewett Theater (Theatre) — 58.7 mi, 314° NW
Willard Andrews Lookout (Viewpoint) — 59.3 mi, 051° NE
Dacotah Prairie Museum (Museum) — 59.5 mi, 314° NW
Sand Lake National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 64.2 mi, 329° NW · 39k acres
Paul Bunyan's Boat-Anchor (Attraction) — 64.7 mi, 062° NE
Amphitheatre (Theatre) — 67.6 mi, 313° NW
Watson School (Historic Ruins) — 67.7 mi, 232° SW
Domsch School (Historic Ruins) — 69.6 mi, 234° SW

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