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Bonnie Doone, Alabama

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Athens census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35611. It stands on Town Creek. The Survey maps it on the Athens quadrangle.

Bonnie Doone within Limestone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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

58 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Bonnie Doone between 1994 and 2020, burning about 275 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning30
Equipment and vehicle use8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
29 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20160929-7
25 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNOR-20140925-003
23 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190920-5
2 September 2006Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190911-3
11 September 2006Debris and open burning7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Limestone County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bonnie Doone: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates. 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
Gilbert MinePhosphorus-PhosphatesProducer

Every working recorded in Limestone 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
Southside0.0 miles22
Cloverleaf0.8 miles22
Southview Manor1.0 miles22
Hannah1.1 miles22
Sommers South1.2 miles22
Country Club Acres1.4 miles22
Whitfield1.4 miles22
French Hill1.4 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 114727. 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.