BlockKing Lake, Nebraska
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Platte Valley precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68064. It stands on Big Slough. The Survey maps it on the Valley quadrangle. 114 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,125 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresKing Lake fell from 280 to 114 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 280 | |
| 2020 | 114 | -166 (-59%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 16 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.
- 1893 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:125000
- 1896 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Valley quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1982 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
21 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of King Lake between 2001 and 2020, burning about 126 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 | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 July 2008 | Fireworks | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 9 June 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 30 June 2001 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 13 June 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 6 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 6 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 9 April 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 16 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of King Lake: 2 producers. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hartford Sand & Gravel Pits 1a & 1b | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Lyman-Richey Sand & Gravel Corp. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waterloo | 2.0 miles | 16 | |
| Valley | 2.4 miles | 16 | |
| Elkhorn | 4.0 miles | 17 | |
| Elk City | 4.4 miles | 16 | |
| Rellers Park | 4.8 miles | 15 | |
| Skyline | 5.2 miles | 19 | |
| Lake Platte View | 5.5 miles | 15 | |
| Venice | 6.2 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 King Lake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2916745 | 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 830510. 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.