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.
Population over time
2 figuresBonney 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 310 | |
| 2020 | 180 | -130 (-42%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1943 USGS Rosharon quadrangle1:31680
- 1943 USGS Rosharon quadrangle1:24000
- 1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Rosharon quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Angleton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
30 since 2008Regional 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 burning | 21 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.2 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2827 PEARCE LANE |
| 5 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 21 August 2011 | Smoking | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 17102 FM 521 |
| 18 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM1462 & CR 606 |
| 13 July 2009 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 48 22400 |
| 1 July 2011 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 48 1 MILE N OF CR 51 |
| 25 May 2009 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1103 CR 713B AIRLINE |
| 22 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 1462 1/4 E OF FM 521 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2012Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bonney | $15,000 | A metal roof was torn from a two-story building. |
| January 2012 | Tornado (EF0) | Bonney | $10,000 | This EF-0 tornado rolled over two semi-tractor trailers on Highway 288 near the intersection of Highway 288 and South County Road 48. |
| January 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bonney | $5,000 | A 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 2014 | Funnel Cloud | Bonney | - | A funnel cloud was spotted just outside the town of Bonney. |
| October 2013 | Heavy Rain | Bonney | - | High water on roads in and around Bonney. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| China Grove | 0.5 miles | 11 | |
| Rosharon | 2.5 miles | 11 | |
| Chenango | 4.4 miles | 11 | |
| Sandy Point | 5.1 miles | 11 | |
| Lochridge | 5.1 miles | 11 | |
| Otey | 5.6 miles | 11 | |
| English | 5.8 miles | 11 | |
| Anchor | 7.6 miles | 11 |
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 Bonney | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2564591 | 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 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.






