Constance, Nebraska

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Precinct 3. It lies in ZIP code area 68730. The Survey maps it on the Crofton quadrangle.

Constance within Cedar 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.

1955 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Crofton quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Yankton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

19 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Constance between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,275 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	8
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Smoking	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
6 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	19 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
27 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
18 September 2012	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
5 July 2012	Smoking	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
26 July 2012	Smoking	2.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
25 July 2018	Smoking	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
22 June 2012	Smoking	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
11 June 2012	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cedar 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
Fordyce	3.9 miles	9
Menominee	6.4 miles	10
Pleasant Valley	6.5 miles	9
Aten	9.2 miles	10
Bow Valley	9.9 miles	9
South Yankton	10.0 miles	10
Hartington	10.8 miles	9
Saint Helena	12.2 miles	10

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 Constance	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17986641	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 835275. 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.