Boneita Springs, South Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Belle Fourche-Cheyenne Valleys unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57791. It stands on West Bull Creek. The Survey maps it on the Boneita Springs quadrangle.

Boneita Springs within Meade County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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 Rapid City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Boneita Springs quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Rapid City quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS New Underwood quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

14 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Boneita Springs between 1998 and 2017, burning about 2,961 acres in total. 7 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
Natural	7
Debris and open burning	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
2 September 2000	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Enning Volunteer Fire Department	BRUCE MULLOY
2 August 2005	Natural	300 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	ENNING
19 August 2009	Natural	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
26 July 2005	Natural	800 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BALDWIN
25 July 2012	Natural	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	JACK SIMONS BALE
23 July 2005	Natural	400 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	MOULEY
20 July 2014	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	DAMVIEW FIRE
16 July 2005	Natural	100 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	SNOOK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Meade 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Haydraw	8.5 miles	8
Enning	9.0 miles	8
Elm Springs	9.3 miles	7
Union Center	9.8 miles	7
Dalzell	11.2 miles	7
White Owl	12.3 miles	7
Clough	15.8 miles	8
Redowl	17.4 miles	7

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 Boneita Springs	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q23709330	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 1260984. 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.