DirtFlight is not a drone photography service. To get aerial photos of land in South Dakota, enter the county and the APN, or draw the boundary on the map or upload a file. The pack renders in about ten minutes: an outlined top down, four cardinal 3D views, an 18 second orbit video, a hosted listing page and a parcel info sheet, with full resolution files of every view. Nobody flies out, so there is no travel charge, and it works anywhere in South Dakota. Dirt is $29 a parcel and Paydirt $79, or $199 a month for PayDirt Pro (20 Paydirt packs a month). Paydirt adds a contour map, the road frontage hero, the infrared land health view, the full social kit with platform captions, a posting plan and silent reels, pop-out photos from nine directions, the interactive 3D explorer and the measured diligence layers.
- Coverage
- All of South Dakota
- Turnaround
- About 10 minutes
- Travel charge
- None, ever
- Imagery age
- One to three years
East river tillable, west river grass.
South Dakota splits at the river. East it is tillable with sloughs and potholes, and the wet acres are the argument. West it is grass, and the argument is water, fencing and how the draws break. Neither reads from the section road.
A section in Dewey County renders in the same ten minutes as a quarter in Minnehaha County, and dams, sloughs, cross fences and draws read plainly from above.
Boundaries are approximate and are not a survey.
One parcel. Everything below.
One parcel. Native grass with a dam in the draw, two cross fences, and a gravel road along the north line.
Everything in the pack
This is the whole South Dakota delivery.
Every view below came back from one parcel, in about ten minutes, with no pilot and no site visit.
Where South Dakota land actually trades.
These are among the counties land buyers ask about most.
Any South Dakota county works: type the parcel number, draw the boundary on the map, or upload a KML, KMZ, GeoJSON or zipped shapefile. Try your APN free, and if a parcel will not come up from its number you hear that before anything is charged.
What to know before you order a South Dakota parcel.
- Coverage
- Any South Dakota county works: type the APN, draw the boundary on the map or upload a file. See coverage.
- Common land
- Native grass ranch land west of the Missouri, cropland east of it, river breaks, prairie sloughs, and hunting tracts.
- Typical uses
- Ranch and pasture sales, cropland, hunting and recreation, and family operations.
- Reads well from above
- Dams and stock ponds, sloughs, cross fencing, shelterbelts, and where cropland gives way to grass or breaks.
- Your parcel number
- The number to look for is the parcel number on the assessment record.
- Boundary and imagery
- The boundary is approximate and is not a survey. Imagery is the most recent aerial available for that county, usually one to three years old.
Rules for splitting a South Dakota tract differ by county, so start with the county planning office. How to subdivide land walks through the steps, subdivide land photos renders a pack for every lot from a plat or a drawn split, and land home packages screens where a home can go on a lot.
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Asked by people selling South Dakota ground.
Which South Dakota counties can you do?
Any South Dakota county works. Send the county and the APN and DirtFlight renders the pack. If a parcel will not come up from its number, you hear that before anything is charged, and you can draw the boundary on the map or upload a KML, KMZ, GeoJSON or zipped shapefile instead. The pack comes back the same.
Is DirtFlight a fit for South Dakota ranches, cropland and hunting tracts?
Native grass ranch land west of the Missouri, cropland east of it, river breaks, prairie sloughs, and hunting tracts. Typical uses there: ranch and pasture sales, cropland, hunting and recreation, and family operations.
Can you cover a whole ranch or a multi-quarter farm?
Yes. Adjoining parcels entered together merge into one boundary, so a ranch made of a dozen APNs renders as a single outline instead of a dozen images. That is the main reason ranch sellers use it.
Will dams, sloughs and cross fencing be visible?
Typically. Stock dams, sloughs, cross fences, corrals and the cattle trails between them all read from above, and the contour map shows the draws. Water levels reflect the imagery date, which is stamped on the pack.
Which South Dakota parcel number goes into the form?
In South Dakota, the number to look for is the parcel number on the assessment record. Enter the county and the APN as it appears on the tax record, or a street address, and DirtFlight draws the boundary. If a parcel will not come up from its number, you are told before anything is charged, and you can draw the boundary on the map or upload a boundary file instead.
What can a buyer see from above on South Dakota grass and breaks?
Dams and stock ponds, sloughs, cross fencing, shelterbelts, and where cropland gives way to grass or breaks. The boundary is drawn on every view, and the imagery is the most recent aerial available for that county, usually one to three years old, with the date on the pack.
List your South Dakota parcel today.
Send the county and the APN, or draw the boundary on the map or upload a file. Free for a limited time.