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Clyde, Nebraska

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Precinct 7. It lies in ZIP code area 68949. The Survey maps it on the Holdrege West quadrangle. It stands 2,372 feet above sea level.

Clyde within Phelps County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

17 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Clyde between 2000 and 2019, burning about 329 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 burning6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
9 June 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
4 May 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
16 May 2008Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
13 May 2013Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
8 April 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
5 April 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
17 April 2004Debris and open burning1.5 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
13 April 2006Equipment and vehicle use19 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Phelps 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
Holdrege3.2 miles13
Atlanta4.3 miles13
Loomis6.5 miles13
Sacramento7.6 miles13
Funk9.6 miles13
Bertrand13.8 miles16
Westmark14.0 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.

Wikipedia article on ClydeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5136838The 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 835273. 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.