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Kuesters Lake, Nebraska

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68801. The Survey maps it on the Grand Island quadrangle.

Kuesters Lake within Hall County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

34 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Kuesters Lake between 2004 and 2020, burning about 59 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 burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
6 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
18 August 2012Debris and open burning3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
10 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
25 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
21 July 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
18 July 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hall County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Kuesters Lake: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Talc-Soapstone. 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
Grand Island MillTalc-SoapstoneProducer
Grand Island Talc MillTalc-SoapstoneProducer

Every working recorded in Hall 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
Grand Island2.5 miles17
Kingwood Estates2.6 miles17
Parkview3.1 miles17
Pioneer Estates3.3 miles17
Ovina9.1 miles17
Alda9.8 miles16
Abbott10.5 miles17
Doniphan11.1 miles16

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.

Wikidata item Q122543667The 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 1874080. 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.