BlockBefore

Bon Homme Colony, South Dakota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Southeast Bon Homme unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57063. It stands on Charley Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bon Homme Colony quadrangle. 97 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Bon Homme Colony within Bon Homme County

On record in Bon Homme Colony

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

Fires near this place

7 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Bon Homme Colony between 2010 and 2016, burning about 1,482 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
24 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionKOTALIK
22 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionKREBER
6 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionWALKER
11 April 2014Debris and open burning1,125 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionCOLONY
22 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionWALKER
14 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined350 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionTABOR REC AREA
10 March 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bon Homme County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Bon Homme Colony: 10 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Dewey Thompson Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
E.Pechous Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Henry Frick Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
J.J.Hale Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Bon Homme County

Storms near this place

6 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bon Homme Colony in 6 storm reports between 2006 and 2023: 5 hail, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2008Flash FloodBon Homme Colony-Heavy rain from thunderstorms caused flooding of several roads, including South Dakota Highway 52 and some county roads.
July 2023HailBon Homme Colony-no account filed
July 2020HailBon Homme Colony-no account filed
May 2008HailBon Homme Colony-no account filed
May 2008HailBon Homme Colony-no account filed
June 2006HailBon Homme Colony-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bon Homme County

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Tabor6.4 miles9
Springfield10.1 miles10
Tyndall12.2 miles9
Kingsburg12.4 miles9
Running Water16.1 miles10
Perkins16.1 miles11
Scotland19.7 miles12
Vodnany (historical)20.6 miles11

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 Bon Homme ColonyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q108684997The 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 1265132. 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.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.