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Bonham, South Carolina

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Union census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29379. The Survey maps it on the Jonesville quadrangle.

Bonham within Union County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

184 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 184 fires within 5 miles of Bonham between 1992 and 2019, burning about 429 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined90
Debris and open burning57
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism6
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes2
Smoking2

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
6 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Smoking1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1997Misuse of fire by a minor3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2006Naturalunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union County

Storms near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bonham in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2017: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 2017Thunderstorm WindBonham-Nws storm survey found multiple trees blown down around Shady Hill Dr off Timberlake Rd.
April 2012HailBonham-Hail up to golf ball size covered the ground 3 miles north northwest of Union. Large hail fell all the way into Union causing roof damage to the dome of the courthouse among other buildings.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindBonham-A tree was blown down on Pineland Rd about 4.5 miles of Union.
August 2011HailBonham-Quarter size hail fell in the Bonham area. Also, the winds were estimated at 50 mph.

Every storm recorded in Union 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
Humphriesville (historical)2.5 miles12
Lockhart Junction2.9 miles12
Kelly3.6 miles12
Goat Alley4.0 miles12
Buffalo4.0 miles12
Tempie Hill4.1 miles12
Rogansville (historical)4.2 miles12
Union4.4 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1220888. 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.