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Heber, Nebraska

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lone Tree Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68826. It lies near Parker Island. The Survey maps it on the Central City East quadrangle.

Heber within Merrick County

On record in Heber

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 2 records

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

14 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Heber between 2008 and 2017, burning about 72 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 were 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 burning6
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Fireworks1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
23 August 2008Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
3 July 2017Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
1 July 2017Fireworks1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
23 May 2008Natural1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 March 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
26 March 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
19 March 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
11 March 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Merrick County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Heber in 1 storm report in 2011: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2011FloodHeber-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Merrick 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
Riverside Park1.0 miles14
Central City1.5 miles14
Paddock5.0 miles14
Hord5.6 miles14
Archer9.3 miles13
Clarks10.3 miles13
Chapman11.5 miles13
Worms15.6 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 835318. 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.