Bonaldo, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Nacogdoches census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75964. The Survey maps it on the Lake Nacogdoches South quadrangle.

Bonaldo within Nacogdoches County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1952 USGS Douglass quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Lake Nacogdoches South quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Nacogdoches quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Nacogdoches quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

158 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 158 fires within 5 miles of Bonaldo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 767 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 7 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 burning	90
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	26
Power generation/transmission/distribution	11
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Arson/incendiarism	7
Natural	6
Smoking	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
9 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
5 September 2014	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	JOSEPH MAST
5 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
5 September 1998	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
30 September 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	#7053
30 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
24 September 2014	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
24 September 2014	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BRUSH FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nacogdoches 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
Harmony	2.2 miles	11
Alazan	4.7 miles	11
Eden	5.6 miles	11
Climax	6.4 miles	15
Fredonia Hill	9.2 miles	13
Hayward Junction	9.8 miles	13
Winter Hill	9.8 miles	11
Nacogdoches	10.0 miles	13

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 Q122559228

The 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 1383745. 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.