Van Metre, South Dakota

Van Metre is an unincorporated community in Jones County, in the U.S. state of South Dakota.[1]

History

Van Metre was originally Bovine; the present name is in honor of Arthur C. Van Metre, a South Dakota pioneer.[2] A post office called Bovine was established in 1891, the name was changed to Van Metre in 1907, and the post office closed in 1960.[3]

gollark: Also, you force everyone in the region to go along with whatever you're doing, which has ethical issues.
gollark: There's a lot of violence involved in revolutions, you come out of them with your infrastructure or whatever damaged, and it's just generally not very good.
gollark: That is also not the same thing and you just edited your message.
gollark: Those are problematic.
gollark: It would be nice if it *was* somehow possible to run large-scale tests of different socioeconomic systems.

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Van Metre, South Dakota
  2. Chicago and North Western Railway Company (1908). A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways. p. 133.
  3. "Jones County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 30 March 2015.



This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.