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Garden Valley Courts, Nebraska

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Omaha City. It lies in ZIP code area 68110. The Survey maps it on the Omaha North quadrangle.

Garden Valley Courts within Douglas County

On record in Garden Valley Courts

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Omaha city. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From Omaha: the Gate City, and Douglas County, Nebraska;, published 1917 - Omaha City

Urban B. Balcombe

Urban B. Balcombe, who died at Excelsior Springs, Missouri, March 7, 191 7, was born in Elgin, Illinois,' in 1852. His father. Saint A. D. Balcombe, removed with his family to Omaha from Winona, Minnesota, July 5, 1865. He had formerly been agent for the captured Sioux and Winnebago Indians and in 1863 removed them to St.

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Fires near this place

15 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Garden Valley Courts between 2007 and 2020, burning about 36 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/undetermined7
Debris and open burning4
Smoking2
Fireworks1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2008Fireworksunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
7 April 2020Debris and open burning9.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 April 2018Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Garden Valley Courts: 5 past producers, 1 plant, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Refiner, Silver, Antimony, Bismuth, Gold, Lead, Smelter. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
(Facility) Omaha RefineryLead, Refiner, Silver, Antimony, Bismuth, GoldPlant
Asarco (Omaha) RefineryLead, SmelterPast Producer
Crescent QuarrySand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hively PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Wickham PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Douglas 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
Home Park0.8 miles15
Beechwood1.1 miles15
East Omaha2.6 miles15
Omaha3.4 miles15
Debolt4.0 miles18
Briggs4.7 miles18
Irvington6.2 miles18
South Omaha6.9 miles15

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 Q122590815The 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 1900418. 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.