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.
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
Saint Onge State Banklisted 2005
Population over time
2 figuresSaint 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 191 | |
| 2020 | 170 | -21 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1905 USGS Saint Onge quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1907 USGS Belle Fourche quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Rapid City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Saint Onge quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Saint Onge quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS Rapid City quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Belle Fourche quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
33 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Minnekahta Volunteer Fire Department | SATURDAY |
| 1 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 8 August 2020 | Natural | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | 200TH CA |
| 8 August 1992 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | JENSON HAYSTACK |
| 7 August 2016 | Natural | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | ACORN |
| 7 August 2011 | Natural | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | BELL |
| 7 August 2005 | Natural | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 7 August 2002 | Natural | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | PINE HILLS FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| H Clay Prod.Grog Pit | Clay | Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1995 | Hail | Saint 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. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whitewood | 7.3 miles | 19 | |
| Spearfish | 8.3 miles | 20 | |
| Crook City | 8.6 miles | 19 | |
| Centennial City (historical) | 9.0 miles | 19 | |
| Mountain Plains | 9.3 miles | 20 | |
| Elizabethtown (historical) | 11.0 miles | 19 | |
| Maitland | 11.1 miles | 20 | |
| Chinatown | 11.6 miles | 19 |
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 Onge | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7401970 | 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 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.






