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Bonita, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the St. Jo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76255. The Survey maps it on the Bonita quadrangle.

Bonita within Montague County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

111 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Bonita between 1998 and 2020, burning about 1,716 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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 burning39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Equipment and vehicle use23
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Smoking5
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural2
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined700 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOBB HOLLOW
8 September 2015Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2015080
29 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2015089
27 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2010069
27 September 2007Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2016Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2016097
19 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2016096
10 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOBB HOLLOW 3

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montague County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bonita: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Nocona Rock Co PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Montague County

Storms near this place

7 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bonita in 7 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 5 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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 2025HailBonita$15,000Broadcast media reported softball sized hail 4 miles northwest of Saint Jo.
March 2009HailBonita$5,000Golfball size hail was observed in Bonita.
April 2025Flash FloodBonita-Emergency management reported that several roads were flooded across Montague County.
April 2022HailBonita-Law enforcement reported half dollar sized hail in Bonita, TX.
April 2019HailBonita-A trained spotter reported nickel size hail approximately 5 miles northwest of the city of Saint Jo, TX.
March 2009Tornado (EF0)Bonita-A brief tornado lasting 30 seconds was reported 1 mile east of Bonita.
June 2001HailBonita-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Montague 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
Capps Corner5.5 miles9
Saint Jo5.8 miles10
Nocona Hills7.0 miles10
Corinth7.1 miles9
Nocona7.2 miles10
Montague9.3 miles10
Dye9.6 miles10
Illinois Bend10.2 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 BonitaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4942058The 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 1352658. 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.

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.

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.