BlockLime Grove, Nebraska
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Hooker Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68757. The Survey maps it on the Maskell quadrangle. It stands 1,293 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 19 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.
- 1898 USGS Elk Point quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1901 USGS Elk Point quadrangle1:125000
- 1907 USGS Elk Point quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1955 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Maskell quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Sioux City North quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Maskell quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
626 words on this townshipThe county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Hooker Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Hooker Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Fires near this place
17 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Lime Grove between 2014 and 2020, burning about 302 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 | 13 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 May 2014 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 5 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 29 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 22 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 22 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 135 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 21 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 21 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 21 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lime Grove: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thompson | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maskell | 2.0 miles | 19 | |
| Newcastle | 6.7 miles | 19 | |
| Lembke Landing | 10.5 miles | 19 | |
| Ionia (historical) | 11.6 miles | 19 | |
| Martinsburg | 14.0 miles | 18 | |
| Ponca | 17.1 miles | 20 | |
| Dixon | 17.1 miles | 9 | |
| Allen | 18.9 miles | 9 |
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 Lime Grove | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q18353982 | 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 835363. 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.