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Bonney, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Angleton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77583. The Survey maps it on the Rosharon quadrangle. 180 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 46 feet above sea level.

Bonney within Brazoria County

Population over time

2 figures

Bonney fell from 310 to 180 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010310
2020180-130 (-42%)

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.

Fires near this place

30 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Bonney between 2008 and 2012, burning about 69 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
Debris and open burning21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1

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
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2827 PEARCE LANE
5 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
21 August 2011Smoking5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service17102 FM 521
18 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM1462 & CR 606
13 July 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 48 22400
1 July 2011Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 48 1 MILE N OF CR 51
25 May 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1103 CR 713B AIRLINE
22 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 1462 1/4 E OF FM 521

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brazoria County

Storms near this place

5 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bonney in 5 storm reports between 2012 and 2018: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2018Thunderstorm WindBonney$15,000A metal roof was torn from a two-story building.
January 2012Tornado (EF0)Bonney$10,000This EF-0 tornado rolled over two semi-tractor trailers on Highway 288 near the intersection of Highway 288 and South County Road 48.
January 2012Thunderstorm WindBonney$5,000A severe thunderstorm that had already produced a tornado caused some straight line wind damage at a house in Bonney where half of a metal roof was peeled back.
July 2014Funnel CloudBonney-A funnel cloud was spotted just outside the town of Bonney.
October 2013Heavy RainBonney-High water on roads in and around Bonney.

Every storm recorded in Brazoria 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
China Grove0.5 miles11
Rosharon2.5 miles11
Chenango4.4 miles11
Sandy Point5.1 miles11
Lochridge5.1 miles11
Otey5.6 miles11
English5.8 miles11
Anchor7.6 miles11

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 BonneyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2564591The 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 1379443. 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.