Cornell, Nebraska

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Cornell precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69044. It stands on South Fork Driftwood Creek. The Survey maps it on the Culbertson SW quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Cornell within Hitchcock County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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.

1954 USGS McCook quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS McCook quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS McCook quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Culbertson SW quadrangle1:24000
1979 USGS McCook quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

3 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Cornell (historical) between 2017 and 2019, burning about 75 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
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
14 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	30 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
14 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
26 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	35 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Hitchcock 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
Trenton	11.2 miles	7
Culbertson	15.1 miles	7
Stratton	17.6 miles	7
Beverly	17.8 miles	7
Palisade	24.2 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1841312. 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.