BlockBower, Nebraska
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Richland precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68352. The Survey maps it on the Western SW quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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 Lincoln quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Western SW quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Fairbury quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
8 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Bower (historical) between 2014 and 2020, burning about 158 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 burning | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 July 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 15 July 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 2 May 2014 | Debris and open burning | 12 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 March 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 18 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 1 December 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 3 November 2020 | Debris and open burning | 100 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 October 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 30 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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1882777. 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.