BlockGrover, Nebraska
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Precinct O. It lies in ZIP code area 68405. It stands on Wolf Creek. The Survey maps it on the Milford quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 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.
- 1934 USGS Seward quadrangle1:48000
- 1939 USGS Seward quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Milford quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS York quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Grover between 2009 and 2020, burning about 42 acres in total. None 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 burning | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 March 2009 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 16 February 2020 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 40 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grover in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2022: 3 hail, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2008 | Flood | Grover | $10,000 | Rainfall of 2 to 3 inches fell over much of the middle and upper sections of the Big Blue River basin on October 21 and October 22. The rain caused the Big Blue River to flood for a prolonged period from near Milford downstream to around DeWitt, which is in Saline County. The river near Crete, which is in Saline county, crested at 21.7 feet around 915pm CDT on 10/24, flood stage is 18 feet. The flooding affected agricultural farmland, closed a few county roads in the area and caused the delay of local bridge construction just south of Milford which was damaged by flooding over the summer. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Grover | - | Public reported 1.5 inch hail via social media. |
| September 2015 | Hail | Grover | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Grover | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Milford | 0.8 miles | 15 | |
| Riverside Park | 0.9 miles | 15 | |
| Ruby | 4.1 miles | 15 | |
| Camden (historical) | 5.4 miles | 15 | |
| Pleasant Dale | 5.7 miles | 15 | |
| Seward | 9.4 miles | 14 | |
| Goehner | 10.4 miles | 15 | |
| Garland | 11.7 miles | 15 |
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 Grover | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q17596422 | 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 829711. 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.