Bow Valley, Nebraska
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Precinct 4. It lies in ZIP code area 68739. The Survey maps it on the Wynot quadrangle. 95 people lived here at the 2020 count.
On record in Bow Valley
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 figuresBow Valley fell from 116 to 95 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 116 | |
| 2020 | 95 | -21 (-18%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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 Sioux City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Wynot quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Yankton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
12 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Bow Valley between 2006 and 2020, burning about 76 acres in total. 1 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 | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 19 July 2017 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 17 July 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 17 June 2007 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 26 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 18 April 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 11 April 2011 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 4 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wynot | 4.6 miles | 9 | |
| Bow Valley Mills | 5.4 miles | 10 | |
| Saint James | 5.5 miles | 9 | |
| Fordyce | 6.1 miles | 9 | |
| Hartington | 6.4 miles | 9 | |
| Saint Helena | 6.6 miles | 10 | |
| Menominee | 8.3 miles | 10 | |
| Constance | 9.9 miles | 9 |
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 Bow Valley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5732898 | 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 827580. 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.





