BlockFive Points, Nebraska
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Bowen precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69346. The Survey maps it on the Five Points quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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 Five Points quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Crawford quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
20 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Five Points between 1997 and 2020, burning about 34,071 acres in total. 18 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 | 18 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2010 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 55 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 16 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 11 September 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Nebraska National Forest | BONE BED |
| 9 August 2020 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 9 August 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Nebraska National Forest | ROCKY ROAD |
| 31 August 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 3 August 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 28 August 2012 | Natural | 29,730 acres | Nebraska National Forest | DOUTHIT |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 835561. 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.