BlockCadams, Nebraska
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Nelson precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68978. The Survey maps it on the Superior quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 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.
- 1898 USGS Superior quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Grand Island quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Grand Island quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Grand Island quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Superior quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Red Cloud quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
13 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Cadams between 2009 and 2020, burning about 693 acres in total. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2013 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 22 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 27 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 28 July 2012 | Natural | 3.5 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 June 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 20 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 16 March 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 26 February 2012 | 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.
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 Cadams | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q17986191 | 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 835265. 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.