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Bonney Lake, Washington

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Puyallup census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98391. The Survey maps it on the Sumner quadrangle. 22,487 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 574 feet above sea level.

Bonney Lake within Pierce County

Population over time

2 figures

Bonney Lake grew from 17,374 to 22,487 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
201017,374
202022,487+5,113 (+29%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 28 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

44 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Bonney Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 70 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony14
Debris and open burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1
Other causes1

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
6 September 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCASCADIA
29 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
24 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
14 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersTAHALEH
10 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersPRAIRIE CARBON
6 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters210 CASCADIA
5 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersEHLI HILL
30 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersPRAIRIE RIDGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Bonney Lake: 11 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Calcium. 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
McmillanCalciumPast Producer
Anderson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Puyallup PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Spinning PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sumner PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pierce County

Storms near this place

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bonney Lake in 3 storm reports between 2000 and 2009: 2 tornado, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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
September 2000LightningBonney Lake1 hurt, $1,500Lightning struck a maple tree, then the man who owned the tree went outside to examine the damage, when a second lightning strike hit near the tree, traveled through the ground and shocked him. He suffered burns to his head, chest and feet, while the first lightning strike damaged electrical equipment inside the home.
September 2009Tornado (EF1)Bonney Lake$180,000Confirmed EF1 tornado with estimated wind speed 100-110 mph. Maximum width was 170 yards. On ground intermittently over a 9.6 mile path length for 16 minutes.
June 2001Tornado (F1)Bonney Lake$100,000A tornado downed numerous trees, damaged several dozen houses, and destroyed 1 metal barn.

Every storm recorded in Pierce 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
Cedar View1.7 miles28
Ponderosa Estates1.9 miles28
Rhododendron Park2.2 miles28
Alderton2.3 miles28
Sumner3.4 miles28
Prairie Ridge3.4 miles28
McMillin3.7 miles28
Lake Tapps4.7 miles28

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 LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q657810The 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 1512017. 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.