Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Bona Vista, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Pulaski Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43506. It stands on Lost Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bryan quadrangle.

Bona Vista within Williams County

Then and now

1914 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 72 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bona Vista, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Bona Vista, surveyed 1914

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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.

In the 1905 county history

3,683 words on this township

The county history of 1905 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Pulaski Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Pulaski Township - 3,683 words.

Fires nearby

1 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Bona Vista between 2002 and 2002, burning about 0 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
Equipment and vehicle use	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
23 October 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williams County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 103 shown

Museums hold 103 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bona Vista between 1890 and 1974: 101 Animalia, 1 Plantae, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Bauer, L., C.H. Kennedy and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Gomphus exilis Selys, 1854	1946	H. Price	Northwest Township, Nettle Creek
Lampsilis radiata radiata (Gmelin, 1791)	1948	Kansas University	St. Joseph River, Florence
Plowrightia morbosa (Schwein.) Sacc.	1890	Woodard Edwin	Stryker
Moxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818)	1893	P. Kirsch	Tiffin River, West Unity, Ohio
Sciurus niger Linnaeus, 1758	1926	Collector(s): unknown	No specific locality recorded
Acris crepitans Baird, 1854	1927	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	Near Stryker, Williams Co., Ohio
Rana clamitans Latreille, 1801	1927	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	Near Stryker, Williams Co., Ohio
Sturnus vulgaris Linnaeus, 1758	1927	Price, H. (Homer)	Evansport, Williams, Ohio, USA
Mustela nivalis allegheniensis (Rhoads, 1901)	1929	R. Bernath	Stryker
Rana pipiens Schreber, 1782	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Bridgewater Twp.: Nettle Cr., Williams Co., Ohio
Graptemys geographica (Lesueur, 1817)	1930	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	near Blakeslee: St. Joseph's river, Williams Co., Ohio
Lophodytes cucullatus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1930	Hicks, L. E. (Lawrence E.)	Nettle Lake, Williams, Ohio, USA

All 103 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bona Vista: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Dennis Winzler Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	J.E. Brown Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Williams 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Bona Vesta	0.6 miles	13
Pulaski	1.3 miles	13
Shaffers Acres	1.9 miles	11
Lakeland Woods Estates	2.0 miles	11
Bryan	2.2 miles	13
Jerrys First Addition	2.8 miles	13
Hallock	2.9 miles	13
Norlick Place	3.0 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2677573. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.