Bono, Indiana

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Helt Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47847. The Survey maps it on the Dana quadrangle. It stands 633 feet above sea level.

Bono within Vermillion County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1953 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1955 USGS Dana quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Dana quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1986 USGS Paris quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

4,817 words on this township

Biographical and Historical Record of Vermillion County, Indiana : Containing Portraits of All the Presidents of the United States from Washington to Cleveland, with Accompanying Biographies of Each; a Condensed History of the State of Indiana; Portraits and Biographies of Some of the Prominent Men of the State; Engravings of Prominent Citizens in Vermillion County, with Personal Histories of Many of the Leading Families, and a Concise History of the County and Its Villages, published 1888; History of Parke and Vermillion Counties, Indiana : with Historical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families, published 1913 names this settlement in its chapter on Helt Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The Toronto Presbyterian Church, at Bono, was organized many years ago, but the members are now changing their places of meeting to Dana, wlu^-e they have just completed one of the most beautiful frame church edifices in the nation. Its size is 32 x 54 feet, besides a "rostrum" 8x14 feet; its style is of course modern and of fancy finish, and the cost about |l2,800, not counting the pews and other funiture. It was dedicated June 26, 1887, by Rev. T. D. Fyfle, of Eoseville Indiana. The location is in the northern part of the village, in Samuel Aikman's addition. The leading men in building this church were "W. M. Taylor, Samuel Aikman and Samuel Hall.

Passage source: Biographical and Historical Record of Vermillion County, Indiana : Containing Portraits of All the Presidents of the United States from Washington to Cleveland, with Accompanying Biographies of Each; a Condensed History of the State of Indiana; Portraits and Biographies of Some of the Prominent Men of the State; Engravings of Prominent Citizens in Vermillion County, with Personal Histories of Many of the Leading Families, and a Concise History of the County and Its Villages, published 1888.

1840 - Stephen Milliken, born in Pennsylvania in 1803; J. F. Powers, born in Virginia in 1803. Other very early settlers in Helt township included these : Samuel Rice, William Hays. Peter Higbie. Henry Bogart, Richard, Isaac and John Short, Carmack, etc., all of wliom liave long since been numbered among the dead pioneers of A'ermillion county.

Passage source: History of Parke and Vermillion Counties, Indiana : with Historical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families, published 1913.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Helt Township - it names this place 2 more 2 times.

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Toronto	1.5 miles	16
Randall	1.8 miles	17
Dana	3.3 miles	16
West Dana	3.4 miles	17
Jonestown	3.6 miles	17
Saint Bernice	3.8 miles	17
West Clinton	4.8 miles	17
Highland	5.7 miles	16

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Bono	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4942542	The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 431326. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.