Birdwood, Nebraska

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Hinman precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69101. The Survey maps it on the Hershey East quadrangle.

Birdwood within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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.

1899 USGS North Platte quadrangle1:125000
1902 USGS North Platte quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1954 USGS North Platte quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS North Platte quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS North Platte quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS North Platte quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Hershey East quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS North Platte quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

35 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Birdwood between 2007 and 2019, burning about 158 acres in total. 2 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	9
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Smoking	5
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Recreation and ceremony	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 2013	Smoking	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
23 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
18 September 2012	Smoking	10 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
14 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
13 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	80 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
7 July 2007	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
7 July 2007	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
31 July 2012	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Hershey

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Birdwood: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Mccain Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	North Platte Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Lincoln 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
Village Square	4.5 miles	14
Key Estates	5.3 miles	14
Hershey	6.3 miles	14
North Platte	6.7 miles	14
Sioux View Park	7.4 miles	14
Beck	10.2 miles	14
O'Fallons	10.2 miles	14
Coker	12.5 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 835251. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.