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Bono, Texas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Godley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76044. The Survey maps it on the Bono quadrangle.

Bono within Johnson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 18 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

36 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Bono between 2005 and 2011, burning about 884 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use7
Debris and open burning7
Smoking7
Arson/incendiarism2

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
10 August 2008Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKATIE COURT
9 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 1224A FIRE
4 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTIN TOP HWY
11 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOVERLOOK RD. FIRE
29 April 2011Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBONO74
16 April 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBONO65
31 March 2006Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 March 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBONO # 36

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Johnson County

Storms near this place

10 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bono in 10 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
April 2023HailBono$100,000Emergency management reported golf ball sized hail 5 miles south-southeast of Keene, TX.
October 1994Thunderstorm WindBono$50,000A barn was unroofed, outbuildings were damaged, fences and trees were blown down by high winds.
April 2011HailBono$10,000Golfball size hail fell about 4 miles southeast of Cleburne.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindBono$8,000A barn was destroyed by high winds,a mobile home was unroofed, and trees were uprooted.
April 2018HailBono$5,000Amateur radio reported golfball sized hail in the city of Bono, TX.
January 2017Thunderstorm WindBono$2,000Roof was blown off, as well as tree limbs down which were between 6-8 inches in diameter in the Sand Flat area.
May 2013Tornado (EF0)Bono-National Weather Service storm survey crews determined a tornado produced EF-0 damage to the south and east of Cleburne.
March 2010HailBono-Penny size hail fell 3 miles southeast of Cleburne.
April 2008Thunderstorm WindBono-no account filed
May 2003HailBono-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Johnson 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
Burton3.8 miles16
Lone Willow4.1 miles16
Lebanon4.4 miles16
Buchanan (historical)6.3 miles16
Cleburne6.5 miles16
Oak Hill7.2 miles17
Godley8.7 miles18
Rio Vista9.3 miles17

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 BonoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q96373785The 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 1378030. 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.