Cumro, Nebraska

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Loup Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68822. It stands on Box Elder Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mason City SW quadrangle.

Cumro within Custer County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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 Mason City SW quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Broken Bow quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1956 USGS Broken Bow quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Broken Bow quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Cumro in 2017, burning about 200 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	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 March 2017	Debris and open burning	200 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

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
Burr Oak	3.8 miles	11
Buckeye	7.1 miles	11
Mason City	13.0 miles	12
Ansley	13.9 miles	11
Oconto	14.6 miles	11
Berwyn	17.0 miles	11
Lodi	20.6 miles	11
Westerville	20.9 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 835282. 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.