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Headquarters, Nebraska

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Bartlett precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68622. The Survey maps it on the Mignery Ranch quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Headquarters within Wheeler County

On record in Headquarters

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

5 surveys from 11 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

7 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Headquarters (historical) between 2008 and 2020, burning about 96 acres in total. 3 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
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural3

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
5 August 2020Natural3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
5 August 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
26 June 2010Natural15 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
7 April 2014Natural1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
22 March 2008Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
25 November 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
29 October 2008Equipment and vehicle use75 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wheeler 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
Stokes Ranch2.2 miles11
Mignery Ranch3.1 miles11
Cumminsville3.7 miles10
Day Ranch4.9 miles11
Koinzan Ranch5.1 miles11
Bartlett5.1 miles10
Wheeler (historical)7.2 miles10
Ericson14.9 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1847491. 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.