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Bonita, Oregon

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Brogan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97908. The Survey maps it on the Cow Valley West quadrangle. It stands 4,065 feet above sea level.

Bonita within Malheur County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

3 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Bonita between 1994 and 1998, burning about 2,379 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
25 August 1994Arson/incendiarism110 acresVale DistrictBONITA RD
14 August 1998Natural71 acresVale DistrictCOW CREEK
14 August 1998Natural2,198 acresVale DistrictBONITA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Malheur 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
Caviness (historical)1.6 miles9
Ironside7.7 miles9
Clover (historical)8.4 miles9
Malheur City (historical)12.5 miles10
Eldorado12.9 miles10
Brogan16.8 miles9
Humboldt Basin (historical)17.2 miles10
Cake (historical)18.0 miles10

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 Q112262733The 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 1136084. 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.