Conterra, Nebraska

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Cleveland precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69201. The Survey maps it on the Mule Lake quadrangle.

Conterra within Cherry 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.

1951 USGS Brownlee quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Valentine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Valentine quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Goose Creek quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Mule Lake quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

14 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Conterra between 1993 and 2012, burning about 14,808 acres in total. 11 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
Natural	11
Equipment and vehicle use	3

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
17 September 2000	Natural	100 acres	Valentine National Wildlife Refuge	LEE
17 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Valentine National Wildlife Refuge	BEAVER
17 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Valentine National Wildlife Refuge	RAT
17 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Valentine National Wildlife Refuge	PUNCH BOWL
17 September 2000	Natural	13,903 acres	Valentine National Wildlife Refuge	VAL COMP
29 August 1998	Natural	2.5 acres	Valentine National Wildlife Refuge	24B1
1 July 1998	Natural	under an acre	Valentine National Wildlife Refuge	SCOTT
30 June 1997	Natural	4.0 acres	Valentine National Wildlife Refuge	COLBURN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Simeon

Every fire recorded in Cherry 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
Brownlee	11.0 miles	9
Kennedy	12.1 miles	9
Simeon	12.4 miles	9
Piercy Place	17.1 miles	10
Hartgraves Place	21.1 miles	10
Cascade	22.5 miles	9
Arabia	23.8 miles	8
Wood Lake	24.6 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 835276. 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.