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Glenwood Park, Nebraska

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Precinct 20. It lies in ZIP code area 68847. The Survey maps it on the Kearney quadrangle.

Glenwood Park within Buffalo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 20 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.

Fires near this place

68 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Glenwood Park between 2007 and 2020, burning about 1,613 acres in total. 1 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 burning26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use8
Fireworks7
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1
Smoking1

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
29 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2012Fireworksunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
10 September 2012Smoking1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
5 August 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
5 August 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
3 August 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
26 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Buffalo 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 Glenwood Park: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Johnson Sand and Gravel CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Buffalo County

Storms near this place

12 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glenwood Park in 12 storm reports between 2015 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 flash flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2023HailGlenwood Park$5,000,000no account filed
April 2015HailGlenwood Park$100,000Hail up to golf ball size covered Highway 10 three miles north of Kearney, causing drivers to slide off of the road and into the ditch.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindGlenwood Park$20,000Wind gusts estimated to be around 65 MPH resulted in damage approximately 5 miles east of Riverdale on 115th Road. A portion of the road was blocked for a time after a pole barn was blown over.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindGlenwood Park-A wind gust of 68 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located five miles north-northeast of Kearney, and a gust of 62 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located four miles north of Kearney.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindGlenwood Park-A wind gust of 58 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located three miles east of Riverdale.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindGlenwood Park-A wind gust of 60 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located three miles north-northeast of Kearney.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindGlenwood Park-A wind gust of 60 MPH was measured by the Kearney Regional Airport AWOS and a gust of 59 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located three miles east of Riverdale.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindGlenwood Park-A wind gust of 68 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located four miles north of Kearney.
September 2023Flash FloodGlenwood Park-Rainfall amounts of 2 to 4 inches fell in a short period of time, resulting in flash flooding across portions of Kearney. Broadcast media reported street flooding being most notable across southern portions of town, including along 2nd Avenue between 11th and 16th Street. There were reports of a few cars being stranded in the floodwater.
June 2024HailGlenwood Park-no account filed
May 2023HailGlenwood Park-no account filed
August 2023HailGlenwood Park-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Buffalo 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
Kearney3.5 miles20
Prairie View Estates3.5 miles20
R-Villa Courts3.8 miles20
Riverdale4.8 miles15
Buda5.3 miles16
Alfalfa Center6.4 miles18
Prairie Center7.7 miles16
Odessa9.8 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 829549. 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.

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.