Armour, Nebraska

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Precinct 5, Burchard. It lies in ZIP code area 68323. The Survey maps it on the Liberty quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Armour within Pawnee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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 Lincoln quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Liberty quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Beatrice quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

14 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Armour (historical) between 2001 and 2016, burning about 775 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
Debris and open burning	12
Arson/incendiarism	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
21 August 2007	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
4 May 2008	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
5 April 2007	Debris and open burning	35 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
3 April 2009	Debris and open burning	170 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
2 April 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
17 April 2007	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
16 April 2007	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
5 March 2016	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Kansas Forest Service	98

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pawnee 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
Burchard	4.2 miles	10
Bookwalter	4.8 miles	10
Mission (historical)	6.2 miles	11
Tate (historical)	6.5 miles	10
Lewiston	8.6 miles	10
Violet (historical)	8.8 miles	10
Mayberry	9.2 miles	10
Steinauer	11.6 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1883689. 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.