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Belmont, Nebraska

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Precinct 10. It lies in ZIP code area 69339. The Survey maps it on the Belmont quadrangle. It stands 4,498 feet above sea level.

Belmont within Dawes 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.

Fires near this place

16 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Belmont between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,345 acres in total. 12 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
Natural12
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2002Naturalunder an acreNebraska National ForestPONDEROSA
6 September 2000Natural1,278 acresNebraska National ForestSAWLOG
29 September 2007Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
12 September 2017Natural3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
31 August 2007Natural15 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
23 August 2002Railroad operations and maintenance2.5 acresNebraska National ForestHORSESHOE
20 August 2003Natural10 acresNebraska National ForestCHIMNEY BUTTE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dawes County

Storms near this place

5 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Belmont in 5 storm reports between 2013 and 2021: 5 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2016HailBelmont-Ping pong ball size hail was reported 18 miles northwest of Hemingford.
July 2015HailBelmont-Quarter size hail was observed six miles southeast of Crawford.
July 2013HailBelmont-Half dollar size hail was reported 12 miles southeast of Crawford.
June 2021HailBelmont-no account filed
July 2020HailBelmont-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dawes 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Pine Ridge7.2 miles11
Marsland7.9 miles11
Crawford9.7 miles8
Horn15.4 miles8
Whitney16.9 miles8
Dakota Junction25.5 miles9
Chadron27.0 miles8
Bordeaux32.5 miles8

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 BelmontAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16984078The 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 835497. 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.