BlockCrete, Nebraska
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Champion-Lamar precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69023. The Survey maps it on the Reservoir Lake quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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
- 1973 USGS Reservoir Lake quadrangle1:24000
- 1979 USGS Benkelman quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
10 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Crete between 2014 and 2020, burning about 104 acres in total. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 18 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 17 August 2014 | Natural | 1.5 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 26 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 May 2014 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 13 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 28 February 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 16 October 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 54 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 835280. 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.