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Bono, Arkansas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Big Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72416. The Survey maps it on the Bono quadrangle. 2,409 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 259 feet above sea level.

Bono within Craighead County

Population over time

2 figures

Bono grew from 2,131 to 2,409 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
20102,131
20202,409+278 (+13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

5 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Bono between 2001 and 2016, burning about 50 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
12 May 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 May 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 March 2003Debris and open burning20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 November 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 November 2016Debris and open burning21 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Craighead County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Bono: 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Craighead County

Storms near this place

23 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bono in 23 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 12 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 death. 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 2014Thunderstorm WindBono1 killedStraight line winds produced widespread wind damage across Craighead County. Numerous trees and power lines were knocked down. Some trees fell onto vehicles, homes and across roads producing damage. One tree fell onto a home in Jonesboro killing the occupant. Shingles were also blown off of roofs. Numerous buildings in Jonesboro sustained roof damage. Damage also occurred to the tower of the courthouse. One plane sustained damage at the Jonesboro airport. A train with 38 cars derailed in Otwell due to the winds.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindBono$20,000Numerous trees and power lines were knocked down across Bono.
January 2000LightningBono$10,000A house under construction was struck by lightning and caught fire.
May 1997HailBono$7,600Hail ranging in size from quarters to baseballs fell in Bono.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindBono$7,000Siding was ripped off of two homes due to strong winds.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindBono$5,000Straight line winds produced damage to the roof a home. Cars were also blown off of roadways.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindBono$2,000Straight line winds knocked down trees in Bono.
April 1997Flash FloodBono$2,000no account filed
May 1997Flash FloodBono$1,000Heavy rainfall produced flash flooding across a 5 block area of Bono. Water reached up to the doorway of several buildings.
May 2008HailBono$1,000no account filed
March 2001HailBono$750no account filed
July 2000HailBono$750no account filed
March 2025HailBono-Quarter sized hail in Bono.
April 2022HailBono-Hail larger than baseballs fell two miles south-southeast of Bono via MPING report.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindBono-A wind gust of 60 mph reported in Bono.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindBono-Straight line winds were estimated at 60 mph in Bono. Winds snapped a large tree in Jonesboro that fell on a house in Fernwood Park.
July 2009Flash FloodBono-Heavy rain produced flash flooding around Bono. Various roads were flooded and a few yards had standing water. A spotter reported that 4.5 inches of rain had fallen between 9 am and 3 pm.
August 2023HailBono-no account filed
March 2020HailBono-no account filed
May 2017HailBono-no account filed
May 2017HailBono-no account filed
May 2017HailBono-no account filed
May 2011HailBono-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Craighead 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
Dorothy0.9 miles11
Oak Ridge1.4 miles11
Nalle2.0 miles11
March (historical)2.4 miles11
Pauls Switch3.2 miles11
Fiftysix3.4 miles11
Herman3.8 miles11
Nemo3.9 miles11

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 BonoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79415The 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 76400. 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.