BlockAloys, Nebraska
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Monterey Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68788. The Survey maps it on the Aloys quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1955 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Aloys quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Blair quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Aloys between 2009 and 2011, burning about 48 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 5 May 2010 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 24 December 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 8.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 3 October 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 25 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Aloys in 6 storm reports between 2003 and 2019: 3 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2019 | Flood | Aloys | - | Widespread flooding across the county. There are three major bridges under water, including the highway 32 bridge at West Point, The Wisner County Road 6 bridge, and the Beemer bridge are all impassable. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aloys | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated at around 60 mph. Hail of 1/2 inch or possibly larger accompanied the strong winds. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Aloys | - | Hail up to ping pong ball-size was reported. |
| May 2003 | Flash Flood | Aloys | - | Heavy rainfall produced relatively brief flash flooding across county road D just to the southwest of Aloys in southwestern Cuming county. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Aloys | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Hail | Aloys | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bismarck | 5.2 miles | 8 | |
| Bismarck (historical) | 5.6 miles | 8 | |
| Monterey | 5.8 miles | 8 | |
| Beemer | 8.5 miles | 8 | |
| Saint Charles | 8.6 miles | 9 | |
| West Point | 10.4 miles | 9 | |
| Wisner | 10.9 miles | 8 | |
| Bancroft | 21.6 miles | 9 |
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 Aloys | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q17985506 | 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 826971. 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.