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Westwood Colony South Dakota Map

Explore Westwood 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 Westwood Colony, South Dakota

How to Use This Westwood Colony, South Dakota Map

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

Latitude	45.886722
Longitude	-97.781893
Population	8
Density	3.1 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	57430
Area Code	605
County Seat	Britton
School District	Britton-Hecla School District 45-4

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About Westwood Colony, South Dakota

Westwood Colony is a locality in Marshall County, South Dakota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 8. The population density is 3.1 people per km². Westwood Colony is located at 45.8867°N, 97.7819°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 57430.

Westwood Colony sprawls across the expansive, sun-bleached plains where the horizon hums with the steady, golden vibration of ripening grain. It lies 44.8 miles northeast of Aberdeen, SD (from Aberdeen, SD: bearing 49°T), and is situated 38.5 miles west-northwest of Sisseton. The land here is defined by a vast, openness that seems to swallow the sky, broken only by the low, subtle rise of the terrain that leads toward the distant shadow of Pleasant Peak. Six miles away, the quiet passage of Wild Rice Creek carves a thin, verdant vein through the soil, while the deeper earth of Oak Gulch remains a sheltered fold in the landscape nine miles to the east. At dusk, the light loses its harsh clarity, softening into a bruised violet that clings to the stalks of wheat and turns the surrounding grasslands into a sea of swaying, amber fiber.

Westwood Colony endures as a dedicated agricultural settlement, defined by the communal industry and orderly precision of its inhabitants. Life here is measured by the seasonal demands of the soil and the quiet labor of the fields, far removed from the frantic pace of the outside world. Residents often look toward the protected expanse of White Lake to observe the quiet migration of birds, or travel the thirteen miles to Silver Lake when the heat of the afternoon demands a respite. This is a place of deliberate, rhythmic persistence, where the economy remains tethered to the bounty of the earth and the collective stewardship of the land, preserving a way of life that values the heavy silence of a job well done over the clamor of modernity.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Marshall County Prayer Rock Museum (Museum) — 6.8 mi, 167° S
White Lake (State Recreation Area) — 7.7 mi, 102° E
Brown County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 10.8 mi, 256° W
Brown County Waterfowl Production Area Of Sd (Resource Management Area) — 10.8 mi, 256° W
Renziehausen (State Conservation Area) — 11.4 mi, 232° SW
Meszaros Slough (State Conservation Area) — 11.9 mi, 344° N
Tewaukon National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 13.8 mi, 050° NE · 14k acres
Sand Lake National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 18.4 mi, 271° W · 39k acres
Roy Lake (State Recreation Area) — 18.6 mi, 128° SE
Whitetail Trail Observation Deck (Viewpoint) — 21.3 mi, 067° NE
South Dakota Game Fish and Parks - Wildlife Division (State Park) — 25.3 mi, 145° SE
Old Cannon (Registered Battlefield) — 34.1 mi, 207° SW
Sheyenne National Grassland (National Grassland) — 38.0 mi, 023° NE · 70k acres
Colin Campbell Fur Post (Monument) — 40.1 mi, 260° W
Aviation War Memorial (Monument) — 42.9 mi, 226° SW
Dacotah Prairie Museum (Museum) — 44.9 mi, 230° SW
Mile 14 North Dakota South Dakota boundary marker (Monument) — 45.1 mi, 085° E
Jewett Theater (Theatre) — 45.2 mi, 229° SW
Fort Ransom State Park (State Park) — 45.9 mi, 352° N
Amphitheatre (Theatre) — 47.3 mi, 239° SW
Wilkin County Museum (Museum) — 63.1 mi, 065° NE
Valley Queen Heritage Center (Museum) — 72.0 mi, 129° SE
Mill Theatres (Cinema) — 72.1 mi, 129° SE
Grant County Historical Museum (Museum) — 72.1 mi, 129° SE
Omwick Theatre (Cinema) — 72.3 mi, 352° N
National Waterfowl Production Area (Nature Reserve) — 74.8 mi, 285° W
Paul Bunyan's Boat-Anchor (Attraction) — 76.9 mi, 122° SE

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