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Krakow, Nebraska

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Prairie Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68640. The Survey maps it on the Fullerton NE quadrangle.

Krakow within Nance County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

18 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Krakow between 2004 and 2017, burning about 242 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 burning5
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Fireworks1

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
25 August 2013Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
3 July 2017Fireworks1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
9 June 2015Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
14 May 2013Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
3 April 2013Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
26 April 2013Smoking3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
8 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
8 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nance County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Krakow: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Industrial/Frac Sand, Sand and Gravel, Industrial. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
GenoaSand and Gravel, Industrial/Frac Sand, Sand and Gravel, IndustrialProducerSand

Every working recorded in Nance 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
Genoa3.9 miles13
Merchiston7.0 miles13
Fullerton11.7 miles13
Belgrade17.6 miles13
North Star20.3 miles13
Timber Creek23.8 miles13

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 KrakowAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18154135The 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 830437. 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.