Cummings Park, Nebraska

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1994. It stands in West Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68874. The Survey maps it on the Walworth quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Cummings Park within Custer County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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 Walworth quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Broken Bow quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1956 USGS Broken Bow quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Burwell quadrangle1:100000
1994 USGS Burwell quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

6 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Cummings Park (historical) between 2010 and 2018, burning about 91 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	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2

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
1 April 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
8 March 2018	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
10 March 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
18 February 2014	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
10 December 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
20 October 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Custer 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
West Union (historical)	4.6 miles	12
Walworth	5.8 miles	11
Sargent	8.5 miles	11
Gates	8.7 miles	11
Round Valley	10.0 miles	11
Lillian	11.3 miles	11
Milburn	12.2 miles	11
Elton (historical)	14.5 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1847862. 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.