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Bostwick, Nebraska

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Beaver precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68978. It stands on Cottonwood Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bostwick quadrangle.

Bostwick within Nuckolls County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

14 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Bostwick between 2007 and 2018, burning about 117 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Debris and open burning4
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
6 August 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
26 July 2007Equipment and vehicle use12 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
20 June 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
14 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
1 April 2009Debris and open burning3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
8 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined55 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 March 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
5 February 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nuckolls County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Bostwick: 3 producers. 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
Ideal Cement PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Ideal Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Ideal QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Storms near this place

15 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bostwick in 15 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 5 hail, 4 tornado, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2015Tornado (EF1)Bostwick$250,000This tornado touched down between Bostwick and Superior, and was rated an EF1 with an estimated peak wind speed of 100 MPH. Trees were damaged, pivots were overturned and power poles were snapped. A home northwest of Superior sustained porch damage.
July 2008HailBostwick$5,000no account filed
April 2016Tornado (EF1)Bostwick$4,000This tornado touched down approximately 8 miles northwest of Superior and took a curved path to the southwest before lifting approximately 5 miles northwest of Superior. This tornado remained in rural areas, damaging trees, fence line and 4 power poles along its path. The maximum wind speed was estimated to be 100 MPH.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindBostwick-A wind gust of 63 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located four miles north-northwest of Bostwick.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindBostwick-A wind gust of 63 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located four miles north-northwest of Bostwick.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindBostwick-A wind gust of 68 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located seven miles north-northwest of Bostwick.
June 2019Heavy RainBostwick-These are rain totals over the past 24-hours, but most rain fell between 10 pm CDT on the 14th and 4 AM CDT on the 15th. This includes unofficial emergency manager reports of 3.5 to 4.0 inches in and around Bostwick, with 4.00 inches measured 1 mile north of Bostwick. A 24-hour rainfall of 4.72 inches fell 7 miles west-southwest of Nelson, and 3.44 inches was measured 7 miles south-southeast of Lawrence, reported in CoCoRaHS. Also, the Nuckolls County emergency manager reported that Highway 136 was under water about 5 miles east-northeast of Guide Rock.
June 2012Heavy RainBostwick-Rain total of 3.33 inches for the past 24 hours. Report comes from the Nebraska Rainfall Assessment and Information Network. The rain began during the late afternoon on June 14th, with the last round of rain ending during the early morning hours of June 15th.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindBostwick-no account filed
May 2010HailBostwick-no account filed
March 2006HailBostwick-no account filed
May 2003HailBostwick-no account filed
June 2002HailBostwick-no account filed
June 1998Tornado (F0)Bostwick-no account filed
May 1996Tornado (F0)Bostwick-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nuckolls 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
Abdal (historical)6.0 miles12
Superior6.3 miles12
Smyrna7.9 miles12
Mount Clare9.4 miles11
Cadams10.0 miles12
Nelson12.2 miles11
Nora13.8 miles12
Hardy13.9 miles12

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 BostwickAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17986027The 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 827574. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.