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Bon Air, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Childersburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35032. It stands on Fourmile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Childersburg quadrangle. 172 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 440 feet above sea level.

Bon Air within Talladega County

Population over time

2 figures

Bon Air grew from 116 to 172 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
2010116
2020172+56 (+48%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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

272 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 272 fires within 5 miles of Bon Air between 1994 and 2020, burning about 5,481 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 77 were 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
Debris and open burning111
Arson/incendiarism77
Missing data/not specified/undetermined40
Recreation and ceremony19
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Natural4
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 2002Arson/incendiarism80 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2002Debris and open burning10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190927-6
25 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2010Arson/incendiarism8.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2007Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Talladega County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Bon Air: 20 unknowns, 4 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, Aluminum, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Childersburg QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Kymulga ProspectAluminumOccurrence
Butler Estate MineIron, ManganesePast Producer
Wesson Manganese MineManganeseProspect1918
Wesson Mn Mine Big Grunt MineManganesePast ProducerResidual
ChildsburgIronUnknown
Cliett ProspectIronProspect
Fulton GapIronUnknown
Singleton DepositsIronPast ProducerResidual
Singleton Limonite DepositIronPast ProducerResidual

Every working recorded in Talladega County

Storms near this place

8 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bon Air in 8 storm reports between 2008 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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 2009Thunderstorm WindBon Air$3,000Several trees and power lines were blown down around the city of Childersburg.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindBon Air$2,000Several trees and power lines were blown down at 9th Avenue and 4th Street, in Childersburg.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindBon Air$1,000Several large tree limbs were broken off, in Childersburg.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindBon Air-Several trees uprooted near the intersection of Pine Grove Road and Coleman Road.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindBon Air-Several trees uprooted near Pecan Road.
December 2009Heavy RainBon Air-Street flooding was reported on Magnolia Street, in Childersburg.
June 2011HailBon Air-no account filed
July 2009HailBon Air-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Talladega 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
Minor Terrace0.8 miles19
Coosa Court1.2 miles19
Childersburg1.4 miles19
Grove Park1.5 miles19
Boaz Corner1.9 miles19
Pinewood Terrace2.1 miles19
Center Hill2.1 miles23
Forest Hills2.2 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 Bon AirAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q67661The 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 114706. 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.