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Bonita, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Billingsley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36749. It stands on Parker Branch. The Survey maps it on the Milton quadrangle.

Bonita within Autauga County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

106 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Bonita between 1994 and 2020, burning about 702 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 26 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 burning50
Arson/incendiarism26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Recreation and ceremony9
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural1

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
26 September 2000Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20120914-001
10 September 2019Debris and open burning15 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190910-5
6 August 2000Arson/incendiarism3.2 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2000Arson/incendiarism4.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Autauga County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bonita: 2 producers. All of them still produce. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Dallas PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Freemont PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Autauga County

Storms near this place

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bonita in 5 storm reports between 1999 and 2019: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2010Thunderstorm WindBonita$8,000A tree fell on a vehicle.
October 2010Thunderstorm WindBonita$3,000Several trees were blown down along County Roads 60 and 7 near the Jones community.
March 2019Tornado (EF1)Bonita-National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in Autauga County and determined that it was consistent with an EF1 tornado, with maximum sustained winds near 100 mph.||The tornado touched down near the intersection of County Road 15 and County Road 45. At onset a few homes suffered minor roof damage and several trees were uprooted or snapped off. The tornado tracked northeast along County Road 15 and damaged numerous trees. The tornado turned eastward and crossed County Road 38, County Road 40, County Road 79, and County Road 137. The tornado weakened and narrowed east of County Road 137, and lifted before it crossed U.S. Highway 82. Trees were uprooted or snapped along the entire path.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindBonita-A few trees were uprooted near the Jones community.
May 1999HailBonita-Nickel to quarter size hail was reported near Bonita.

Every storm recorded in Autauga 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
Milton1.5 miles17
Fremont3.5 miles17
Winslow3.7 miles17
Evergreen3.8 miles17
Jones4.6 miles17
Statesville5.2 miles12
Bethel Grove5.9 miles16
Beth Grove (historical)6.1 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156093. 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.