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Bismarck, Nebraska

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Elkhorn Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68716. The Survey maps it on the Beemer quadrangle.

Bismarck within Cuming 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

8 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Bismarck between 2001 and 2017, burning about 11 acres in total. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use4
Debris and open burning2
Fireworks1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
28 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
3 July 2007Fireworks1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
1 July 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
14 May 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
27 April 2012Debris and open burning5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
9 December 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
9 November 2017Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
30 November 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cuming 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
Bismarck (historical)2.3 miles8
Beemer3.6 miles8
Aloys5.2 miles8
Wisner6.5 miles8
Monterey8.1 miles8
West Point9.3 miles9
Saint Charles9.7 miles9
Bancroft17.4 miles9

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 BismarckAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17510071The 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 1848379. 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.