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Bovee, South Dakota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Rhoda Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57342. The Survey maps it on the Bovee quadrangle.

Bovee within Charles Mix County

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

30 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Bovee between 2000 and 2015, burning about 291 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined13
Debris and open burning10
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural2

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
4 September 2005Debris and open burning10 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
17 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
10 September 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresPlatte Volunteer Fire Department00-37
3 August 2006Debris and open burning5.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
23 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
22 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
21 August 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
20 August 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charles Mix County

Storms near this place

6 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bovee in 6 storm reports between 2009 and 2022: 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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 2022Thunderstorm WindBovee-A thunderstorm wind gust to 60 mph was measured by a personal weather station.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindBovee-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several branches blown down.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindBovee-no account filed
June 2017HailBovee-no account filed
June 2017HailBovee-no account filed
June 2009HailBovee-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Charles Mix 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
Platte5.9 miles9
Geddes6.2 miles9
Wheeler (historical)12.0 miles9
Lake Andes16.7 miles11
Lake View Colony17.7 miles10
Dezera17.9 miles11
Academy18.9 miles8
Platte Colony21.4 miles8

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 BoveeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q23709333The 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 1265619. 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.