Elton, Nebraska

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Garfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68822. It lies near French Tableland. The Survey maps it on the Sargent SW quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Elton within Custer County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1952 USGS Sargent SW quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Broken Bow quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1956 USGS Broken Bow quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Burwell quadrangle1:100000
1994 USGS Burwell quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

6 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Elton (historical) between 2008 and 2019, burning about 324 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	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
19 April 2019	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
11 April 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
10 April 2014	Debris and open burning	260 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
19 March 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
19 March 2008	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
18 March 2008	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

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
Weissert	3.0 miles	11
Round Valley	5.1 miles	11
Westerville	8.9 miles	11
West Union (historical)	10.5 miles	12
Berwyn	10.6 miles	11
Lillian	10.9 miles	11
Sargent	10.9 miles	11
Wescott	11.0 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1847853. 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.