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Wall South Dakota Map

Explore Wall, 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 Wall, South Dakota

How to Use This Wall, South Dakota Map

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

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	Wall
State	South Dakota (SD)
County	Pennington County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Mountain Time (America/Denver)

Latitude	43.992489
Longitude	-102.241548
Population	699
Density	124.4 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	57790
Area Code	605
County Seat	Rapid City
School District	Wall School District 51-5

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About Wall, South Dakota

Wall is a locality in Pennington County, South Dakota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 699. The population density is 124.4 people per km². Wall is located at 43.9925°N, 102.2415°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. Wall is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 57790.

Wall emerges from the vast, sun-bleached expanse of the prairie as a solitary outpost where the horizon stretches into an infinite, pale blue distance. It lies 41.9 miles east of Box Elder, SD (from Box Elder, SD: bearing 101°T), and is situated 49.5 miles east of Rapid City. The land here is defined by the stark, ancient geology of the Buffalo Gap National Grassland, which presses against the town’s edge with its rugged, sedimentary layers and sparse, hardy vegetation. To the south, the terrain dips into the quiet, parched depths of Bloom Basin, while the persistent, thin thread of Cottonwood Creek carves a narrow, winding path through the silt. When the wind moves across the plains, it carries the scent of dry earth and sage, and in the late afternoon, the light turns a bruised, cinematic gold that makes the distant, hazy silhouette of Washburn Ridge appear as a phantom boundary against the darkening sky.

Wall grew from the iron-willed necessity of the railroad, evolving into a central waypoint for those who traverse the wide, unforgiving reaches of the plains. The local economy remains tethered to the movement of travelers and the persistent rhythm of agricultural labor, maintaining a character forged by the intersection of homesteading grit and the pragmatic demands of the high plains. While Shearer Lake sits in the quiet distance, the life of Wall is centered on the constant, restless energy of the road, where the architecture of commerce meets the stillness of the surrounding grasslands. It is a place where the pace is governed by the shifting seasons and the wide, open sky, holding a quiet, enduring presence that feels both deeply rooted in the soil and perpetually ready for the next arrival.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Story of Wounded Knee (Attraction) — 0.0 mi, 184° S
Buffalo Gap National Grassland (National Grassland) — 0.1 mi, 180° S · 587k acres
Wall Welcome (Monument) — 0.3 mi, 159° S
Wall Drug 80-foot Dinosaur (Public Artwork) — 0.5 mi, 134° SE
New Wall Dam (State Conservation Area) — 1.5 mi, 234° SW
Badlands National Park (National Park) — 6.1 mi, 197° S · 111k acres
Roberts Prairie Dog Town (Attraction) — 6.9 mi, 208° SW
Robert Prairie Dog Town (Viewpoint) — 7.0 mi, 210° SW
Badlands Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 7.0 mi, 199° S · 62k acres
Wasta Rest Stop Tipi (Attraction) — 10.8 mi, 298° NW
Prairie Homestead (Historic Ruins) — 21.3 mi, 128° SE
Amphitheatre (Theatre) — 22.5 mi, 139° SE
Creston Dinosaur (Attraction) — 23.3 mi, 256° W
Tisdale Lake (State Recreation Area) — 25.2 mi, 302° NW
Curlew Lake (State Recreation Area) — 30.3 mi, 304° NW
Mann School (Historic Ruins) — 38.3 mi, 266° W
Oglala War Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 43.3 mi, 180° S
The Quarter Pounder with Cheese (Monument) — 45.7 mi, 279° W
Museum of Geology (Museum) — 48.2 mi, 277° W
Apex Gallery (Gallery) — 48.3 mi, 277° W
Art for Everyone (Gallery) — 48.5 mi, 276° W
Main Street Square Amphitheatre (Theatre) — 49.3 mi, 278° W
Suzie Cappa Art Center (Gallery) — 49.5 mi, 277° W
Black Hills National Forest (National Forest) — 50.2 mi, 272° W · 1.3M acres
Dinosaur Museum (Museum) — 51.3 mi, 270° W
Custer State Park (State Park) — 55.8 mi, 258° W
Norbeck Wildlife Preserve National Game Refuge (National Conservation Area) — 57.1 mi, 260° W · 46k acres
Black Elk Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 58.7 mi, 260° W · 14k acres
Wind Cave National Park (National Park) — 60.2 mi, 245° SW · 34k acres
Lacreek National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 68.9 mi, 157° SE · 33k acres

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