Devils Gap, Nebraska

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Elwood 7-23 precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68937. The Survey maps it on the Elwood quadrangle.

Devils Gap within Gosper County

On record in Devils Gap

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Gosper County Courthouselisted 1990 · 0.8 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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.

1896 USGS Lexington quadrangle1:125000
1899 USGS Lexington quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1955 USGS Grand Island quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Grand Island quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Grand Island quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Elwood quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Kearney quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

11 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Devils Gap between 2004 and 2020, burning about 175 acres in total. 3 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
Natural	3
Debris and open burning	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
27 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
24 September 2008	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
22 September 2008	Natural	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
13 September 2004	Natural	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
2 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
15 July 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
17 May 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
6 April 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	62 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gosper 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.

Map	Place	Distance	Sheets
	Elwood	1.0 miles	17
	Smithfield	6.9 miles	16

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 Q122570003

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 835286. 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.