BlockBow Valley Mills, Nebraska
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Precinct 5. It lies in ZIP code area 68792. It stands on Second Bow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Saint Helena quadrangle.
On record in Bow Valley Mills
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 within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
- Bow Valley Mills0.0 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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 St. Helena quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Yankton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS St. Helena quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
7 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Bow Valley Mills between 2006 and 2018, burning about 15 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 | 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 |
| 18 May 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | 454TH |
| 19 April 2008 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 18 April 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 30 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 5 February 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 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 | 1.5 miles | 9 | |
| Saint James | 1.8 miles | 9 | |
| Bow Valley | 5.4 miles | 9 | |
| Saint Helena | 5.5 miles | 10 | |
| Obert | 8.9 miles | 10 | |
| Hartington | 10.9 miles | 9 | |
| Menominee | 11.1 miles | 10 | |
| Fordyce | 11.2 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.
| Wikidata item Q122566528 | 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 835256. 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.