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Lanham, Nebraska

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Glenwood Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68415. The Survey maps it on the Odell quadrangle. It stands 1,398 feet above sea level.

Lanham within Gage County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

5 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Lanham between 2009 and 2020, burning about 19 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 burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
5 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
20 May 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
23 April 2020Debris and open burning2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
23 April 2020Debris and open burning5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gage County

Storms near this place

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lanham in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2016: 2 hail. 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
April 2016HailLanham-no account filed
May 2015HailLanham-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gage 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
Odell5.0 miles10
Krider8.2 miles10
Wymore13.9 miles10
Blue Springs14.8 miles10
Ellis14.9 miles10
Badger15.9 miles10
Barneston16.0 miles10
Holmesville17.8 miles10

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 LanhamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6487015The 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 485447. 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.