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Doughboy, Nebraska

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Gillaspie precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69219. The Survey maps it on the Farm Flat quadrangle.

Doughboy within Cherry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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.

Fires near this place

4 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Doughboy between 2001 and 2020, burning about 144 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
Natural3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2001Natural60 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
29 July 2017Natural2.5 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
13 July 2020Natural1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
26 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Cherry 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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Cody22.3 miles9
Nenzel23.6 miles9
Kennedy24.8 miles9
Eli25.5 miles8
Kilgore28.2 miles9
Simeon29.5 miles9
Merriman30.9 miles9
Hire31.2 miles10

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.

Wikipedia article on DoughboyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18149984The 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 835289. 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.