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Whitewood South Dakota Map

Explore Whitewood, 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 Whitewood, South Dakota

How to Use This Whitewood, South Dakota Map

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

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

Latitude	44.461095
Longitude	-103.638528
Population	879
Density	532.8 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	57793
Area Code	605
County Seat	Deadwood
School District	Meade School District 46-1

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About Whitewood, South Dakota

Whitewood is a locality in Lawrence County, South Dakota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 879. The population density is 532.8 people per km². Whitewood is located at 44.4611°N, 103.6385°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. Whitewood is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 57793.

Whitewood maintains a quiet vigil over the transition where the high plains begin to buckle into the rugged, pine-shadowed elevation of the Black Hills. It lies 11.1 miles east of Spearfish, SD (from Spearfish, SD: bearing 101°T), and is situated 7.3 miles west-northwest of Sturgis. Whitewood Creek carves a persistent, narrow path through the landscape, its banks providing a cool, riparian respite against the expansive, sun-bleached grasses that stretch toward the horizon. To the west, the dark silhouette of the Black Hills National Forest looms, a dense wall of timber that dictates the cooling patterns of the evening air. The light here has a peculiar, thin clarity, sharpening the edges of the distant horizon and casting long, violet shadows across the soil of Slaughterhouse Gulch as the sun retreats.

Settlement in the vicinity emerged from the restless energy of the frontier, a place where the search for mineral wealth dictated the initial architecture of survival. While the economy has shifted from the frantic industry of early prospecting to a more steady reliance on regional agriculture and local trade, the heritage of the nineteenth-century boom remains etched into the spare, functional layout of the streets. Beyond the edge of the residential grid, the ground rises toward the expansive Centennial Prairie, where the wind carries the dry scent of sage and cured earth. Life in Whitewood follows the slow, seasonal pulse of the plains, where the distance between neighbors is measured not by blocks, but by the shared, resilient patience required to endure the long, white winters and the sudden, fierce heat of the summer months.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Stolen Kiss Apartments (Monument) — 0.1 mi, 240° SW
Historic Potter's Field (Monument) — 0.3 mi, 086° E
Black Hills National Forest (National Forest) — 2.1 mi, 180° S · 1.3M acres
Whitewood Creek Game Production Area (State Conservation Area) — 3.3 mi, 230° SW
Sturgis Welcome Sign (Attraction) — 6.2 mi, 118° SE
Marcoux Game Production 0area (State Conservation Area) — 6.4 mi, 136° SE
76 Sports Complex (Local Recreation) — 6.5 mi, 216° SW
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 6.9 mi, 120° SE
Seth Bullock's Grave (Attraction) — 7.1 mi, 216° SW
Fort Meade Recreation Area Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 7.3 mi, 093° E
Wild Bill Hickok & Calamity Jane Canary's Graves (Attraction) — 7.3 mi, 216° SW
Ziolkowski - a bust of James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok (Monument) — 7.4 mi, 217° SW
Adams Museum (Museum) — 7.4 mi, 217° SW
Broken Boot Gold Mine (Attraction) — 8.1 mi, 220° SW
Bear Butte Lake Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 9.2 mi, 094° E
Lookout Mountain Park (Local Park) — 9.6 mi, 282° W
Sturgis Watershed Watershed Withdrawal (National Conservation Area) — 9.8 mi, 151° SE · 1,073 acres
Snoma School (Historic Ruins) — 13.2 mi, 348° N
Pull out (Viewpoint) — 15.9 mi, 244° SW
Milberg School (Historic Ruins) — 18.1 mi, 038° NE
Coxes-mirror Lakes (State Recreation Area) — 18.3 mi, 292° W
Pronghorn (Public Artwork) — 31.0 mi, 146° SE
Fine Arts Theater (Theatre) — 32.9 mi, 142° SE
Suzie Cappa Art Center (Gallery) — 33.1 mi, 142° SE
Main Street Square Amphitheatre (Theatre) — 33.2 mi, 142° SE
Apex Gallery (Gallery) — 34.2 mi, 141° SE
Museum of Geology (Museum) — 34.3 mi, 141° SE
Art for Everyone (Gallery) — 34.4 mi, 142° SE
Black Elk Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 39.6 mi, 170° S · 14k acres
Thunder Basin National Grassland (National Grassland) — 46.0 mi, 237° SW · 553k acres

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