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.
Population over time
2 figuresBono 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2,131 | |
| 2020 | 2,409 | +278 (+13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1935 USGS Sedgwick quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Sedgwick quadrangle1:62500
- 1960 USGS Sedgwick quadrangle1:62500
- 1980 USGS Bono quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Jonesboro quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 2001Regional 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 burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 May 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 12 May 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 March 2003 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 November 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 1 November 2016 | Debris and open burning | 21 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional 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.
Storms near this place
23 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bono | 1 killed | Straight 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 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bono | $20,000 | Numerous trees and power lines were knocked down across Bono. |
| January 2000 | Lightning | Bono | $10,000 | A house under construction was struck by lightning and caught fire. |
| May 1997 | Hail | Bono | $7,600 | Hail ranging in size from quarters to baseballs fell in Bono. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bono | $7,000 | Siding was ripped off of two homes due to strong winds. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bono | $5,000 | Straight line winds produced damage to the roof a home. Cars were also blown off of roadways. |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bono | $2,000 | Straight line winds knocked down trees in Bono. |
| April 1997 | Flash Flood | Bono | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Flash Flood | Bono | $1,000 | Heavy rainfall produced flash flooding across a 5 block area of Bono. Water reached up to the doorway of several buildings. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Bono | $1,000 | no account filed |
| March 2001 | Hail | Bono | $750 | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Bono | $750 | no account filed |
| March 2025 | Hail | Bono | - | Quarter sized hail in Bono. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Bono | - | Hail larger than baseballs fell two miles south-southeast of Bono via MPING report. |
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bono | - | A wind gust of 60 mph reported in Bono. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bono | - | 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 2009 | Flash Flood | Bono | - | 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 2023 | Hail | Bono | - | no account filed |
| March 2020 | Hail | Bono | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Bono | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Bono | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Bono | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Bono | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dorothy | 0.9 miles | 11 | |
| Oak Ridge | 1.4 miles | 11 | |
| Nalle | 2.0 miles | 11 | |
| March (historical) | 2.4 miles | 11 | |
| Pauls Switch | 3.2 miles | 11 | |
| Fiftysix | 3.4 miles | 11 | |
| Herman | 3.8 miles | 11 | |
| Nemo | 3.9 miles | 11 |
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 Bono | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q79415 | The 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.






