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Bonita, Arizona

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Bonita-Klondyke census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85643. It stands on Goudy Canyon Wash. The Survey maps it on the Fort Grant quadrangle. It stands 4,544 feet above sea level.

Bonita within Graham County

On record in Bonita

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 3 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Bonita between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,535 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined14
Natural13
Arson/incendiarism8
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
9 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast DistrictMOTHERS
5 August 2008Naturalunder an acreGila District OfficeBONITA
31 August 1995Smoking3.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
3 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined340 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
26 August 2000Natural80 acresCoronado National ForestBUCKET
1 August 1993Natural2.5 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
1 August 1993Natural15 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
29 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast DistrictJESUS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Graham 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 Bonita: 3 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Gold, Beryllium, Mica. 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
Twilight and Grey ClaimsBeryllium, MicaOccurrenceBeryl, Mica
Adits and ShaftGoldProspect
Name UnknownGoldOccurrenceVein
ClaypitClayPast Producer
ClaypitClayPast Producer
Unnamed Clay PitsClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Graham County

Storms near this place

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bonita in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2009: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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
July 2003Thunderstorm WindBonita$6,000no account filed
July 2009Thunderstorm WindBonita$3,000Thunderstorm winds downed several power poles near the Bonita school.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindBonita-Strong thunderstorm wind gusts snapped one power pole in half which then caused seven others to topple down 17 miles north of the Town of Willcox.
August 1998Flash FloodBonita-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Graham 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
Turkey Flat8.3 miles16
Old Columbine8.7 miles17
Sunset13.4 miles19
Artesia15.8 miles11
Swift Trail Junction16.6 miles11
Lebanon17.2 miles11
Cactus Flat17.8 miles14
Thatcher21.1 miles13

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 BonitaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16844357The 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 24330. 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.