Freeway Homes, Nebraska

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Covington precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68776. The Survey maps it on the Sioux City South quadrangle.

Freeway Homes within Dakota County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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.

1955 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Sioux City South quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1986 USGS Sioux City South quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1993 USGS Sioux City South quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

8 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Freeway Homes between 2000 and 2017, burning about 208 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Smoking	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Debris and open burning	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 May 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	200 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 April 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 March 2015	Smoking	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	319 DD
28 February 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	North Sioux Volunteer Fire Department	312 TOWER RD
18 February 2017	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
6 November 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	55710 S-23, IA
21 November 2012	Smoking	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
19 November 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dakota County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Freeway Homes: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Ballou Pit and Plant	Clay	Producer

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
North Shore	0.6 miles	13
Millis Beach	1.1 miles	13
South Sioux City	2.1 miles	13
Dakota City	2.3 miles	13
Covington (historical)	2.9 miles	13
Jackson	6.9 miles	11
Homer	9.1 miles	11
Hubbard	9.2 miles	11

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 Q122563654

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 1884034. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.