BlockFrom the record
One of 40 National Register listings published here for Bon Homme County · listed in 1982 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Bon Homme Hutterite Colony
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
The listing
- Address. On Missouri River^, Tabor, 57063
- When was it listed? June 1982
- Category. district
- Also known as. Historic Hutterite Colonies TR
- Unorganized territory. Southeast Bon Homme
- National Register reference number. 82003913 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
7 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Bon Homme Hutterite Colony between 2010 and 2016, burning about 1,482 acres in total. None 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/undetermined | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 August 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | KOTALIK |
| 22 August 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | KREBER |
| 6 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | WALKER |
| 11 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1,125 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | COLONY |
| 22 March 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | WALKER |
| 14 March 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 350 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | TABOR REC AREA |
| 10 March 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Bon Homme Hutterite Colony: 10 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dewey Thompson Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| E.Pechous Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Henry Frick Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| J.J.Hale Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
32 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tabor, the town this property stands in, in 32 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 24 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 2006 | Hail | Tabor | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tabor | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts up to 61 mph were measured at a personal weather station in Tabor. |
| July 2023 | Tornado (EF0) | Tabor | - | A tornado spun up quickly at 1504 CST beneath a rapidly intensifying storm just north of 302nd Street in an open field between 425th and 426th Avenue. The tornado crawled through open country toward the north-northwest for several minutes and crossed Beaver Creek before damaging several trees on a farmstead along 425th Avenue. The tornado also ripped tin off an abandoned outbuilding. At this point, the tornado track veered to the north as it moved through soybean fields and across 301st Street before it lifted around a tenth of a mile north of 301st Street. The average path width for the tornado was 30 yards. The tornado was rated an EF-0 with a maximum estimated wind gust of 74 mph. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Tabor | - | Large hail caused an unknown amount of damage to vehicles and crops. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tabor | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including numerous branches blown down. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tabor | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including some trees uprooted. The winds also damaged power lines with a resulting power outage. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tabor | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including small branches blown down. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tabor | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage. The amount of damage was not determined. |
| July 2014 | Hail | Tabor | - | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Hail | Tabor | - | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Hail | Tabor | - | no account filed |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tabor | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Tabor | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Tabor | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Tabor | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Tabor | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Tabor | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Tabor | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Tabor | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Tabor | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Tabor | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Tabor | - | no account filed |
| October 2002 | Hail | Tabor | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Tabor | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Tabor | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Tabor | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Tabor | - | no account filed |
| October 2001 | Hail | Tabor | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Tabor | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Tabor | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tabor | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Tabor | - | no account filed |
Map coverage status
No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albion Walker Chalkrock House | 3.6 miles | 1987 | |
 | Thompson House | 4.1 miles | 2003 |
| Jacob Sedlacek Chalkrock House | 5.1 miles | 1987 | |
| John Hakl Chalkrock House | 5.3 miles | 1987 | |
| Joseph Noll Chalkrock Barn | 5.6 miles | 1987 | |
 | Tabor School | 6.3 miles | 1983 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 82003913 in Record Group 79. |
| Bon Homme County | All 40 listed properties in this county. |
Provenance
- Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
- Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
- How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
- 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.