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Broganville, Nebraska

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Whitetail precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69144. The Survey maps it on the Keystone quadrangle.

Broganville within Keith County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Broganville between 2008 and 2020, burning about 25 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 burning4
Fireworks2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
26 September 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
16 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 July 2011Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
3 July 2008Fireworks2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
3 July 2008Fireworksunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
27 July 2008Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
2 July 2017Natural3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
7 June 2008Smokingunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Keith 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
Keystone3.6 miles16
Nevens5.1 miles14
Roscoe6.4 miles16
Martin9.8 miles16
Paxton10.2 miles14
Sarben11.5 miles14
Ogallala12.1 miles16
Lemoyne16.4 miles16

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 Q122597935The 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 835259. 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.