Explore Bonita, Louisiana, with this interactive street and satellite map.
This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Bonita, Louisiana. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Louisiana or beyond.
Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).
TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Bonita.
Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.
Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.
| City | Bonita |
| State | Louisiana (LA) |
| County | Morehouse Parish |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 32.919296 |
| Longitude | -91.677067 |
| Population | 170 |
| Density | 48.7 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 71223 |
| Area Code | 318 |
| School District | Morehouse Parish School District |
Bonita occupies a quiet expanse of flat, alluvial earth where the horizon stretches wide under a vast, unencumbered sky. It lies 38.3 miles northeast of Monroe, LA (from Monroe, LA: bearing 42°T), and is situated 16.0 miles northeast of Bastrop. Bayou Bonne Idee carves a slow, deliberate path through the landscape, its dark water reflecting the heavy, humid light that seems to linger long after the sun has begun its descent. Beyond the immediate banks, the terrain is defined by an industrious flatness, the soil dark and rich, providing a canvas for the sprawling fields that dominate the view. To the north, the protected corridors of Bayou Bartholomew offer a wilder, more tangled contrast to the cultivated rows of crops, where the air is thick with the scent of damp earth and the quiet persistence of insects.
Bonita maintains a steady, measured pace, its existence tethered to the rhythmic cycles of agriculture that have shaped the region for generations. The economy remains rooted in the bounty of these level plains, where the harvest dictates the pulse of the days and the seasons dictate the labor of the inhabitants. Life here is characterized by a profound stillness, interrupted only by the distant hum of machinery or the shifting of light across the open fields. Residents find a singular beauty in the simplicity of the landscape, occasionally venturing toward Bussy Brake to observe the quiet water, yet always returning to the enduring rhythm of a place where history is measured not in monuments, but in the patient, recurring yields of the land.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Bonita, Louisiana. Coordinates: 32.919296, -91.677067. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.
Detailed location data for Bonita includes the ZIP code (71223), telephone area code (318), county seat of Morehouse Parish, and school district assignment (Morehouse Parish School District).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |