Albany, Nebraska

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Wounded Knee precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69343. The Survey maps it on the Clinton NE quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Albany within Sheridan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1955 USGS Alliance quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Alliance quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Alliance quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Clinton NE quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Gordon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

20 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Albany (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 846 acres in total. 10 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
Natural	10
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Debris and open burning	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Other causes	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
6 September 2013	Natural	40 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
28 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	55 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
1 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
6 August 2015	Natural	10 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
1 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	25 acres	Pine Ridge Agency	SAND HILLS
9 July 2020	Natural	38 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
4 July 2017	Natural	45 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
27 July 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	30 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Adaton (historical)

Every fire recorded in Sheridan 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
Gordon	11.5 miles	8
Clinton	14.1 miles	8
Whiteclay	14.3 miles	8
Pine Ridge	14.4 miles	8
Rushville	19.0 miles	8
Adaton (historical)	25.6 miles	8
Hay Springs	28.5 miles	8
Grayson (historical)	35.1 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1832166. 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.