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Forrest Bonner, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71720. The Survey maps it on the Hopeville quadrangle.

Forrest Bonner within Dallas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

38 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Forrest Bonner between 1997 and 2020, burning about 234 acres in total. 4 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
Debris and open burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Arson/incendiarism6
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
7 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2010Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 August 2012Natural3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 August 2015Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 August 2006Arson/incendiarism25 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 July 2012Natural2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dallas County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Forrest Bonner: 9 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Dallas County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Forrest Bonner in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2022: 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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 2009Tornado (EF1)Forrest Bonner$50,000The tornado knocked down hundreds of trees, along with some power lines and poles. Metal roofing was torn off a barn.
May 2022Flash FloodForrest Bonner-Part of Highway 8 , north of Fordyce, was closed due to high water.

Every storm recorded in Dallas 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
Ramsey2.5 miles16
Bucksnort3.8 miles12
Eagletie4.5 miles16
Beech Grove5.4 miles12
Jacinto6.7 miles16
North Fordyce7.1 miles12
Fordyce7.2 miles12
Ivan8.1 miles12

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.

Wikidata item Q122595792The 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 57018. 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.