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Bona, Missouri

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1984. It stands in North Morgan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65601. It stands on Carmack Branch. The Survey maps it on the Bona quadrangle.

Bona within Dade County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

46 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Bona between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,490 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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 burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking3
Other causes2
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
28 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179233-02902-09282019-1515
4 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
27 July 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
13 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177254-02902-07132018-1642
9 June 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
19 June 2001Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 June 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178923-02902-06102019-1715
7 May 1997Smoking2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dade County

Storms near this place

11 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bona in 11 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 5 hail, 4 flash flood, 2 tornado. 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
May 2015Flash FloodBona$10,000Dade Highway 42 was washed out just east of Highway 245 north of Dadeville.
February 2023Tornado (EF0)Bona-A National Weather Service storm survey concluded that an EF-0 tornado, with maximum wind speeds of 76 mph, uprooted a few weak trees with large branches also broken off. No damage to structures was noted along the tornadoes path of 1.2 miles long with a maximum width of 100 yards.
April 2023HailBona-Quarter sized hail was reported.
August 2017Flash FloodBona-Excessive rainfall caused a section of Highway RA to become flooded.
August 2017Flash FloodBona-A section of Highway 215 west of Bona was flooded.
May 1995Tornado (F0)Bona-A tornado was reported to have skimmed the tops of trees.
April 2014HailBona-no account filed
February 2011HailBona-no account filed
March 2010HailBona-no account filed
January 2005Flash FloodBona-no account filed
August 2002HailBona-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dade 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
Carns Ford1.9 miles15
Dadeville4.4 miles16
Corry4.9 miles16
Seybert5.7 miles15
Crisp6.4 miles15
Hulston7.0 miles16
Glen Town7.5 miles15
Comet10.4 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 BonaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3471764The 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 729847. 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.

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.