Athens, Nebraska

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Speiser precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68376. The Survey maps it on the Humboldt SW quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Athens within Richardson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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.

1916 USGS Humboldt quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1955 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Humboldt SW quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Falls City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

22 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Athens (historical) between 2000 and 2019, burning about 692 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
Debris and open burning	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Equipment and vehicle use	2

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
1 August 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Horton Agency	JOHN DEERE
30 April 2001	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Horton Agency	DILLON
25 April 2001	Debris and open burning	160 acres	Horton Agency	KICK
25 April 2001	Debris and open burning	17 acres	Horton Agency	LOST
25 April 2001	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Horton Agency	WAGON
25 April 2001	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Horton Agency	OLD
25 April 2001	Debris and open burning	220 acres	Horton Agency	POO
2 April 2016	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Nim City

Every fire recorded in Richardson 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
Nim City	6.2 miles	11
Humboldt	8.5 miles	11
Dawson	10.2 miles	11
Salem	14.2 miles	11
Verdon	16.2 miles	11
Stella	17.2 miles	11
Straussville	19.2 miles	11
Falls City	20.4 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1883540. 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.