College View, Nebraska

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Lincoln City. It lies in ZIP code area 68506. The Survey maps it on the Lincoln quadrangle. It stands 1,302 feet above sea level.

College View within Lancaster County

On record in College View

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

College View Public Librarylisted 1984 · 0.1 miles away
Christian Record Buildinglisted 1986 · 0.3 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1897 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1955 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Lincoln city. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From Lincoln, the Capital City and Lancaster County, Nebraska;, published 1916 - Lincoln City

Crimin.Al Cases

Lincoln and Lancaster County have been remarkably free from brutal murders or complicated crimes, and resultant criminal trials, but there have been a few cases of this type which have attracted a great amount of attention. Perhaps the most notable of the murder cases in thecounty was known as the Sheedy case.

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Fires near this place

18 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of College View between 2007 and 2018, burning about 11 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	10
Recreation and ceremony	4
Fireworks	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
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
12 August 2018	Smoking	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
4 July 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
11 July 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
11 July 2013	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
8 April 2017	Fireworks	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
28 April 2018	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
28 April 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
2 April 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lancaster 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Lincoln	2.1 miles	16
Pine Lake	2.9 miles	15
Yankee Hill	4.2 miles	16
Bethany	4.3 miles	16
Cheney	4.4 miles	15
University Place	4.7 miles	16
Walton	5.1 miles	16
Saltillo	5.2 miles	15

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 College View	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17986591	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 828264. 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.