Berks, Nebraska

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1986. It lies in ZIP code area 68333. The Survey maps it on the Crete North quadrangle. It stands 1,417 feet above sea level.

Berks within Saline County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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.

1897 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1955 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Crete North quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

95 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Berks between 2007 and 2020, burning about 682 acres in total. 1 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	55
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19
Railroad operations and maintenance	8
Fireworks	6
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Natural	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
8 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
6 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
27 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
8 August 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
5 August 2009	Smoking	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
4 July 2013	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
4 July 2013	Fireworks	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
4 July 2011	Fireworks	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Crete

Every fire recorded in Saline 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
Crete	3.3 miles	15
Shestak	6.8 miles	15
Pleasant Hill	10.2 miles	14
Dorchester	10.6 miles	14
Wilber	12.5 miles	11
De Witt	18.3 miles	11
Friend	19.7 miles	10
Swanton	21.2 miles	10

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 Berks	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17985848	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 835247. 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.