BlockBonanza, Utah
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Uintah and Ouray census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84078. The Survey maps it on the Bonanza quadrangle. It stands 5,466 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 17 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.
- 1885 USGS Ashley quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1907 USGS Jensen quadrangle1:125000
- 1910 USGS Jensen quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Vernal quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Vernal quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Vernal quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Bonanza quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Vernal quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
14 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Bonanza between 1992 and 2017, burning about 2,884 acres in total. 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 August 2008 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3.0 acres | Vernal Field Office | LITTLE BONANZA |
| 6 July 2001 | Debris and open burning | 235 acres | Vernal Field Office | COWBOY CYN |
| 29 July 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Dinosaur National Monument | NOT RAVEN |
| 29 July 1995 | Natural | 80 acres | Vernal Field Office | NOT RAVEN |
| 26 July 2008 | Natural | 46 acres | Vernal Field Office | BONANZA |
| 20 July 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Dinosaur National Monument | BEEF CREEK |
| 11 July 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | MARLBARO |
| 10 July 1995 | Smoking | 1.5 acres | Vernal Field Office | MARLBORO |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bonanza in 2 storm reports between 2002 and 2003: 1 hail, 1 wildfire. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2003 | Wildfire | Bonanza | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Bonanza | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Bonanza | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4941140 | 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 1425865. 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.