BlockDakota Junction, Nebraska
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Precinct 06. It lies in ZIP code area 69337. It stands on Lone Tree Creek. The Survey maps it on the Chadron West quadrangle. It stands 3,241 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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.
- 1955 USGS Alliance quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Alliance quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Alliance quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Chadron West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Crawford quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Dakota Junction between 2019 and 2020, burning about 19 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 August 2020 | Natural | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 24 July 2019 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 3.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 12 July 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 28 June 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 25 June 2020 | Natural | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this place
3 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dakota Junction in 3 storm reports between 2016 and 2021: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
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.
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikidata item Q5210025 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 835540. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.