BlockGlen, 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 69339. It stands on Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Glen 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 Glen quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Crawford quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
26 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Glen between 1997 and 2020, burning about 124 acres in total. 22 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 | 22 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Nebraska National Forest | LOST |
| 1 September 2003 | Natural | 1.5 acres | Nebraska National Forest | TOWER |
| 7 August 2020 | Natural | 5.7 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | TREE |
| 7 August 2020 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 August 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 August 2002 | Natural | 80 acres | Nebraska National Forest | TWIN MILLS |
| 6 August 2020 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 30 August 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Nebraska National Forest | LOG |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
10 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glen in 10 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 7 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | Hail | Glen | - | Trained spotter reported quarter sized hail in Sioux County. |
| September 2023 | Hail | Glen | - | The public reported ping-pong ball sized hail 11 miles WNW of Marsland. Received via mPING. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glen | - | Observer estimated reported winds and noted that residence's dog house was blown away. Thunderstorm dropped pea size hail and precipitation accumulation of 0.10 inches. |
| May 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glen | - | Observer noted widespread power outages at the Red Cloud Campground with several inch diameter tree limbs downed. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Glen | - | Marble to quarter size hail was reported near Glen. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glen | - | NDOR sensor measured a wind gust of 58 mph. |
| May 2010 | Hail | Glen | - | Golfball to baseball size hail along HWY 20. |
| June 2021 | Hail | Glen | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Glen | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Glen | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Glen | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q18151663 | 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 1827805. 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.