Bethany, Nebraska

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Lincoln City. It lies in ZIP code area 68505. The Survey maps it on the Lincoln quadrangle.

Bethany within Lancaster County

On record in Bethany

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 5 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

James A. Beattie Houselisted 1990 · 0.2 miles away
First State Bank of Bethanylisted 1986 · 0.3 miles away
Whitehalllisted 1982 · 0.4 miles away
Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity Houselisted 2005 · 0.8 miles away
Old Main, Nebraska Wesleyan Universitylisted 1975 · 1.0 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 16 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 Lincoln quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Lincoln city. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From Lincoln, the Capital City and Lancaster County, Nebraska;, published 1916 - Lincoln City

Crimin.Al Cases

Lincoln and Lancaster County have been remarkably free from brutal murders or complicated crimes, and resultant criminal trials, but there have been a few cases of this type which have attracted a great amount of attention. Perhaps the most notable of the murder cases in thecounty was known as the Sheedy case.

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Fires near this place

11 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Bethany between 2007 and 2018, burning about 11 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	5
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
12 August 2018	Smoking	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
4 July 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
17 July 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
9 May 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
29 May 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
13 May 2018	Recreation and ceremony	6.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
28 April 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
26 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lancaster 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
Havelock	1.2 miles	16
University Place	1.3 miles	16
Lincoln	2.9 miles	16
Mark IV Estates	3.5 miles	16
Belmont	3.8 miles	16
College View	4.3 miles	16
Walton	4.4 miles	16
Countryside Estates	4.6 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 827360. 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.