Bookwalter, Nebraska

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Precinct 5, Burchard. It lies in ZIP code area 68323. The Survey maps it on the Liberty SE quadrangle.

Bookwalter within Pawnee County

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.

1955 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Liberty SE quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Beatrice quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

9 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Bookwalter between 2007 and 2018, burning about 213 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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
Arson/incendiarism	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
23 August 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Marshall County	120
17 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	134
17 April 2007	Debris and open burning	80 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
16 April 2007	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
5 March 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	128
5 March 2016	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Kansas Forest Service	98
28 March 2007	Debris and open burning	60 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
20 March 2009	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pawnee 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
Mission (historical)	3.0 miles	11
Armour (historical)	4.8 miles	11
Burchard	6.0 miles	10
Violet (historical)	7.8 miles	10
Tate (historical)	11.2 miles	10
Mayberry	11.5 miles	10
Pawnee City	11.8 miles	10
Steinauer	12.4 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 Bookwalter	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17747265	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 835254. 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.