Bonilla, South Dakota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Bonilla Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57348. The Survey maps it on the Hitchcock SW quadrangle.

Bonilla within Beadle County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

1895 USGS Byron quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1953 USGS Huron quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Huron quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Hitchcock SW quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Redfield quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Bonilla between 1998 and 2020, burning about 308 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning	5
Natural	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
16 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	NELSON FIRE
20 July 2019	Natural	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BOOMSMA STACK
11 June 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BOOMSMA
3 May 2018	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	MARONE FIRE
12 February 2000	Debris and open burning	200 acres	Hitchcock Volunteer Fire Department	LYLE MARSHALL #1
27 December 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	80 acres	Ipswich Volunteer Fire Department	STEVENS
14 December 1998	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Wessington Volunteer Fire Department	370 AVE
26 November 1999	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Hitchcock Volunteer Fire Department	GLEN MARSHALLL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Wessington

Every fire recorded in Beadle County

Storms near this place

14 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bonilla in 14 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 7 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2011	Flood	Bonilla	$2,000,000	Major flooding of the James River, as well as flooding of small streams and lakes in the county, continued through April. Much farmland remained flooded, both near to and away from the James River. The James River was 7.3 feet above flood stage at Huron on April 1st, and fell very slowly during the month. Over 50 miles of roads remained closed by the flooding at the start of the month, including South Dakota Highway 28 in the eastern part of the county. Water was running over other roads, from flooded streams, creeks, and fields as well as from the James River. Many roads were heavily damaged. The damage to township and county roads alone was estimated near the end of April at 1.7 million dollars. Some homes and businesses were also flooded, with the flooding of these places slowly alleviating through the month. High water and groundwater levels from record precipitation in the year 2010, a main reason the flooding onset was so fast in March, was also a main reason that the flooding subsided so slowly during April.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Bonilla	$100,000	Thunderstorm winds destroyed a dairy barn and a double garage, broke windows, and caused additional damage to a house, farm equipment, and trees.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Bonilla	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds overturned a camper.
August 2023	Hail	Bonilla	-	Photo was submitted with largest hailstones at quarter size.
April 2022	Hail	Bonilla	-	Ping-pong ball sized hail dropped just west of Bonilla and U.S. Highway 281. Power was knocked out in town.
July 2020	Hail	Bonilla	-	Hail was accompanied by 30 mph winds, but no damage was noted.
July 2019	Hail	Bonilla	-	Not much hail, but some was nickel to quarter size.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Bonilla	-	Several 6 to 12 inch diameter limbs removed from mature trees.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Bonilla	-	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including numerous branches blown down.
March 2011	Flood	Bonilla	-	Melting of a heavy winter snow cover caused major flooding of the James River, as well as flooding of small streams and lakes in the county. Farmland was also flooded, both near to and away from the James River. The James River crested at 9.16 feet above flood stage at Huron on March 26th. Over 50 miles of roads were closed by the flooding, including South Dakota Highway 28 in the eastern part of the county. Water was running over other roads, from flooded streams, creeks, and fields as well as from the James River. Some roads were heavily damaged, but the amount of damage could not be determined before repairs began. Some homes and businesses were also flooded. The flooding onset was rapid for a snow melt flood due to high water and groundwater levels from record precipitation in the year 2010.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Bonilla	-	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage.
August 2012	Hail	Bonilla	-	no account filed
August 2012	Hail	Bonilla	-	no account filed
September 2008	Hail	Bonilla	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Beadle 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
Hitchcock	5.8 miles	10
Broadland	10.1 miles	9
Wolsey	12.1 miles	9
Wessington	13.7 miles	9
Huron Colony	15.6 miles	11
James Valley Junction	17.6 miles	9
Riverside Colony	20.2 miles	10
Virgil	20.5 miles	9

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 Bonilla	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q23709331	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 1254008. 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.

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.