Westwood Colony South Dakota Map

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.

About This Westwood Colony Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Westwood Colony, South Dakota. Coordinates: 45.886722, -97.781893. 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 Westwood Colony includes the ZIP code (57430), telephone area code (605), county seat of Marshall County (Britton), and school district assignment (Britton-Hecla School District 45-4).

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.