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Saint Onge, South Dakota

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1983. It stands in St. Onge Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57779. It stands on Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Saint Onge quadrangle. 170 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,432 feet above sea level.

Saint Onge within Lawrence County

On record in Saint Onge

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Saint Onge fell from 191 to 170 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010191
2020170-21 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

33 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Saint Onge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 53 acres in total. 14 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
Natural14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1
Debris and open burning1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
2 September 2000Natural3.0 acresMinnekahta Volunteer Fire DepartmentSATURDAY
1 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
8 August 2020Naturalunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression200TH CA
8 August 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionJENSON HAYSTACK
7 August 2016Naturalunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionACORN
7 August 2011Naturalunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionBELL
7 August 2005Natural1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
7 August 2002Naturalunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionPINE HILLS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Saint Onge: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. 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
H Clay Prod.Grog PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Lawrence County

Storms near this place

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Saint Onge in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 hail. 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
June 1995HailSaint Onge-Hail covered the ground to an eight-inch dept along Highway 34, also five plus inches of rain at False Bottom creek (between Belle Fourche and Saint Onge) caused damage to trees, crops,homes and automobiles.

Every storm recorded in Lawrence 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
Whitewood7.3 miles19
Spearfish8.3 miles20
Crook City8.6 miles19
Centennial City (historical)9.0 miles19
Mountain Plains9.3 miles20
Elizabethtown (historical)11.0 miles19
Maitland11.1 miles20
Chinatown11.6 miles19

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 Saint OngeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7401970The 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 1257699. 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.