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Bonner, Nebraska

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Haynes precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69331. The Survey maps it on the Angora NE quadrangle.

Bonner within Morrill County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

6 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Bonner between 2012 and 2016, burning about 10 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
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning1

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
1 August 2014Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
20 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
11 July 2016Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
1 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
1 June 2012Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
21 May 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morrill County

Storms near this place

14 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bonner in 14 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 11 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
June 2025Tornado (EFU)Bonner-Pictures verified a landspout south of Alliance. No damage was reported.
June 2025HailBonner-A trained spotter reported quarter sized hail east of Angora Nebraska.
August 2023HailBonner-Spotter reported quarter sized hail 9 miles south of Alliance.
August 2018HailBonner-Several vehicles were reported to have their windows smashed in by the hail.
June 2017HailBonner-Golf ball size hail was reported near the Box Butte County line.
August 2017HailBonner-Golf ball size hail fell along Highway 385. Several vehicles sustained broken windshields.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindBonner-Estimated wind gusts of 65 mph were reported 15 miles southeast of Alliance.
September 2014HailBonner-Ping pong ball size hail was observed.
August 2014HailBonner-Quarter size hail was reported nine miles north of Angora.
June 2011Flash FloodBonner-Highway 385 was closed due to 12 inches of water overflowing.
July 2024HailBonner-no account filed
July 2021HailBonner-no account filed
July 2021HailBonner-no account filed
June 2010HailBonner-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morrill 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
Angora8.2 miles13
Lynn9.8 miles16
Nebraska Boys Ranch11.3 miles16
Vance12.2 miles13
Perrin14.8 miles13
Kemp16.3 miles14
DeGraw17.1 miles13
Piper17.7 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 BonnerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17986010The 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 835253. 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.