Official website (http://bonneterre.net/)
Bonne Terre
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city in St. Francois County, Missouri, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Missouri
- County
- St. Francois
- Mayor
- Erik Schonhardt
- Total
- 4.10 sq mi (10.63 km )
- Land
- 4.07 sq mi (10.54 km )
- Water
- 0.035 sq mi (0.09 km )
- Elevation
- 824 ft (251 m)
- Density
- 1,696.8/sq mi (655.14/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central (CST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 (CDT)
- Fips code
- 29-07102
- Website
- City of Bonne Terre, Missouri
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
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Encyclopedic overview
Bonne Terre (/bɒnˈtɛər/ bon-TAIR) is a city in St. Francois County, Missouri, United States. As of the 2020 census, Bonne Terre had a population of 6,903. Situated in the Southeast Missouri Lead District, lead mining shaped the history and character of the area from the earliest French settlers in the 1720s until today, even though Bonne Terre Mine (established by St. Joseph lead mining company in 1864) closed in 1962. Mine tailing piles eroded, and contaminated the area as dust, posing residential hazards or were washed into the Big River. Not until 1992 was the Bonne Terre Mine Tailings Site listed as a Superfund site; as of 2022 remediation is still ongoing.
The Bonne Terre Depot from 1909, the St. Joe Lead Company Administration Building and the Bonne Terre Mine, are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The latter is spring water filled and has become a scuba diving attraction.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bonne Terre” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.