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Bonanza, Arkansas

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Township 3. It lies in ZIP code area 72916. It lies near Bear Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Hackett quadrangle. 587 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 548 feet above sea level.

Bonanza within Sebastian County

Population over time

2 figures

Bonanza grew from 575 to 587 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
2010575
2020587+12 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 23 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

52 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Bonanza between 1993 and 2020, burning about 804 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Debris and open burning16
Equipment and vehicle use7
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
28 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
2 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2011Smoking15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2001Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sebastian County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Bonanza: 4 producers, 2 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension, Clay. 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
Ibison PitStone, DimensionPast Producer
Unknown Shale PitClayPast Producer
Building Stone QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hamilton PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Miller PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rock Island StoneStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Sebastian County

Storms near this place

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bonanza in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 5 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 2026Thunderstorm WindBonanza-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a tree onto Bear Hollow Road near Bear Hollow Heights.
March 2010HailBonanza-no account filed
May 2004HailBonanza-no account filed
April 2003HailBonanza-no account filed
May 2003HailBonanza-no account filed
April 1998HailBonanza-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sebastian 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
Enterprise1.8 miles25
Jenson3.0 miles23
White Bluff3.2 miles25
Hackett3.5 miles23
Saw Mill4.0 miles25
Doubleday (historical)4.6 miles23
Crescent4.6 miles25
Buell5.0 miles25

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 BonanzaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2580734The 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 57406. 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.