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Bonadelle Ranchos, California

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Madera census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93636. The Survey maps it on the Gregg quadrangle. 5,497 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 338 feet above sea level.

Bonadelle Ranchos within Madera County

Then and now

1922 to 1982

The same ground, surveyed 60 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bonadelle Ranchos, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet of Bonadelle Ranchos, surveyed 1922

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 19 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

461 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 461 fires within 5 miles of Bonadelle Ranchos between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,944 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 42 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/undetermined207
Equipment and vehicle use135
Arson/incendiarism42
Debris and open burning33
Misuse of fire by a minor23
Smoking15
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMerced-Mariposa UnitAVE 12 / RD 38
9 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresMerced-Mariposa UnitI-5
9 September 1996Debris and open burning35 acresMerced-Mariposa UnitWAGNER
8 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMerced-Mariposa UnitAVE 11 / RD 33.5
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMerced-Mariposa UnitRD 32 / AVE 12
8 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMerced-Mariposa UnitKLEINE
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined36 acresMerced-Mariposa UnitAVENUE
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMerced-Mariposa UnitAVE 15 / RD 37 3

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madera 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
Madera Ranchos2.5 miles19
Bonadelle Ranchos Five5.1 miles19
Bonadelle Ranchos Nine5.1 miles20
Trigo5.1 miles19
Lankershim (historical)5.2 miles19
River Road Estates5.3 miles19
Gregg6.3 miles19
Storey6.6 miles16

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 Bonadelle RanchosAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4941074The 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 1812782. 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.