BlockBefore

Blue Springs, Nebraska

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Blue Springs-Wymore Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68318. It stands on Bills Creek. The Survey maps it on the Blue Springs quadrangle. 282 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,240 feet above sea level.

Blue Springs within Gage County

On record in Blue Springs

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Blue Springs fell from 331 to 282 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010331
2020282-49 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

19 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Blue Springs between 2005 and 2020, burning about 727 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 burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
22 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
21 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
30 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined43 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
16 May 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
30 April 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
3 April 2009Debris and open burning3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
24 April 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
2 April 2011Debris and open burning55 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gage County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Blue Springs: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Behrens Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Gage 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
Wymore1.2 miles10
Holmesville4.2 miles10
Badger4.9 miles10
Krider6.6 miles10
Barneston7.6 miles10
Rockford8.3 miles11
Odell9.8 miles10
Beatrice10.0 miles11

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 Blue SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q962044The 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 827509. 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.