Dirt Flight is not a drone photography service. To get aerial photos of a South Dakota parcel, enter the county and the APN. The boundary is drawn from county assessor parcel data and the pack renders in about ten minutes: an outlined top down, four cardinal 3D views, an 18 second orbit video and a contour map. Nobody flies out, so there is no travel charge, and all 66 counties render.
- Coverage
- Statewide, from county records
- 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.
County assessor parcel data is what the boundary is drawn from, so coverage here is complete rather than partial. A section in Meade 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, from public parcel data, and are not a survey.
One APN. Everything below.
One parcel, one APN. 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 number, in about ten minutes, with no pilot and no site visit.
Where South Dakota land actually trades.
These are the ones land buyers ask for most, each with its own page.
Do not see your county? Every one of the 66 renders. Send the APN and it comes back the same ten minutes.
Asked by people selling South Dakota ground.
Which South Dakota counties can you do?
Send the county and the APN and we go straight to that county's own parcel records. Coverage varies: some states publish one statewide layer, others leave it county by county. If yours is one where the records are not public, you hear it from us before anything is charged.
How much does a drone photographer cost for a rural South Dakota listing?
Dirt Flight is not a drone photography service, so this is not our fee. A South Dakota pilot quotes the shoot plus the drive, and a west river ranch is a full day for one tract. Dirt Flight renders the parcel from licensed aerial imagery and public elevation data instead of sending anyone up in the air, so there is no travel charge, no scheduling and no weather day.
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.
How recent is the imagery on a South Dakota parcel?
Somewhere between one and three years for most South Dakota ground, dated on the pack. A dam rebuilt or new cross fence will not appear until the next flight. Contour data behind the elevation views refreshes separately.
What exactly comes back for a South Dakota APN?
An outlined top down, four cardinal 3D views, an 18 second orbit video, a contour map, a context map and a parcel info sheet. Paydirt adds road frontage views, infrared, a social kit and the full resolution files. South Dakota ranch sellers use the merged outline and the contour map together. South Dakota ranch sellers use the merged outline and the contour map together.
Got a South Dakota parcel under contract?
Send the county and the APN. If your invite is not open yet we will still look at the first one by hand.