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Edholm, Nebraska

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Bone Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68036. The Survey maps it on the Schuyler quadrangle.

Edholm within Butler County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

15 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Edholm between 2006 and 2020, burning about 84 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 were 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 burning6
Arson/incendiarism4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
3 July 2007Arson/incendiarism8.8 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
21 July 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
29 May 2010Equipment and vehicle use20 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
20 May 2007Arson/incendiarism1.2 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
9 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 April 2019Debris and open burning3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
16 April 2019Debris and open burning6.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
8 March 2015Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butler County

Storms near this place

3 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Edholm in 3 storm reports between 2007 and 2019: 2 hail, 1 flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2019FloodEdholm-This is for flooding along the Platte River. The river gage at North Bend, operated by the USGS, peaked at 11.91 feet at 8 am on March 17th. Minor flood stage is 8 feet, moderate flood stage is 12 feet while major flood stage is 15 feet. Preliminary this peak is the 3rd highest on record. Ice jamming also played a role in the flooding at this location. The net effect of this flooding was overwhelmed by the high water that immediately proceeded any river ice movement.
April 2011HailEdholm-South of Schuyler in far northern Butler county.
September 2007HailEdholm-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Butler 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
Octavia3.4 miles11
Nimburg5.3 miles11
Linwood5.8 miles11
Abie6.3 miles11
Bruno8.7 miles11
David City10.9 miles11
Bellwood11.1 miles11
Brainard14.6 miles11

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 EdholmAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18150234The 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 835297. 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.