Bonita, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Mountain town. It lies in ZIP code area 54174. It stands on Bonita Creek. The Survey maps it on the Breed quadrangle.

Bonita within Oconto County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

1942 USGS Breed quadrangle1:48000
1952 USGS Mountain quadrangle1:48000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Iron Mountain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Iron Mountain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1973 USGS Breed quadrangle1:24000
1990 USGS Wabeno quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

96 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Bonita between 1992 and 2020, burning about 112 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 5 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
Debris and open burning	29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Fireworks	9
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Smoking	7
Other causes	6
Natural	5
Recreation and ceremony	5
Arson/incendiarism	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
9 August 2008	Natural	4.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 August 2007	Fireworks	under an acre	Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest	HWY 32 LATE NIGHT
3 August 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 August 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest	HAY BALE
11 August 2008	Natural	4.3 acres	Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest	CRAIGS
10 August 2002	Fireworks	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 July 1996	Fireworks	under an acre	Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest	KINGSTON ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oconto County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bonita: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Green Lake Diorite Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Oconto 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Breed	3.7 miles	9
Logan	3.9 miles	9
Mountain	4.6 miles	11
Hayes	8.5 miles	6
Suring	9.5 miles	6
Frostville	10.6 miles	9
Lakewood	13.0 miles	12
Hickory Corners	13.4 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1578830. 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.