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Breslau, Nebraska

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Foster precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68765. The Survey maps it on the Foster quadrangle.

Breslau within Pierce County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

16 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Breslau between 2005 and 2020, burning about 141 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 burning10
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
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 September 2020Smoking1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
5 July 2017Smoking10 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
20 July 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
5 June 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
20 June 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
7 April 2014Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
30 April 2018Smoking1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
23 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pierce 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
East End Tailer Court4.3 miles9
Plainview4.9 miles9
Osmond5.5 miles10
Foster5.6 miles9
McLean12.4 miles9
Pierce13.9 miles10
Wee Town17.5 miles10
West Randolph (historical)17.6 miles9

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 BreslauAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4961857The 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 827629. 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.