Hilton, Nebraska

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Mirage precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69347. The Survey maps it on the Skunk Lake NE quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Hilton within Sheridan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1950 USGS Skunk Lake quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1955 USGS Alliance quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Alliance quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Alliance quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Alliance quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS Skunk Lake NE quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Hilton (historical) between 2008 and 2017, burning about 316 acres in total. 2 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	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
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
25 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	75 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
11 August 2008	Natural	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
17 July 2015	Natural	50 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
16 July 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	150 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
16 November 2017	Recreation and ceremony	40 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sheridan 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Grayson (historical)	6.0 miles	11
Peters (historical)	7.6 miles	8
Lulu (historical)	8.5 miles	10
Marple (historical)	10.7 miles	10
Hay Springs	19.5 miles	8
Rushville	20.3 miles	8
Jennings (historical)	20.6 miles	11
Clinton	24.8 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1832153. 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.