BlockLoretto, Nebraska
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in North Manchester precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68620. The Survey maps it on the Petersburg quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 10 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.
- 1955 USGS Broken Bow quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1956 USGS Broken Bow quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Petersburg quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Ord quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
20 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Loretto between 2008 and 2020, burning about 76 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 | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 6 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 2 May 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 2 May 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 19 May 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 13 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 11 April 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 1 April 2010 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Loretto in 8 storm reports between 1994 and 2019: 5 hail, 2 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2019 | Hail | Loretto | - | A trained spotter reported 1 inch hail at Loretto. |
| June 2008 | Flood | Loretto | - | Heavy rain that fell over northeast Nebraska on June 7th and 8th caused Beaver Creek or it's tributaries to flood for the second time in little over a week from Loretto downstream to around St. Edward. The creek at Loretto hit a crest of 9.9 feet around 10am CDT on June 8th, flood stage is 9 feet. The flooding from either this storm or the one on June 4th washed out approaches to two county roads. County roads and agricultural lowlands in the area were also flooded. |
| May 2008 | Flood | Loretto | - | Heavy rain that fell across northeast Nebraska during the evening and overnight hours of May 29th and 30th caused flooding along Beaver Creek and its tributaries from near Loretto southeast to around St. Edward. Beaver Creek at Loretto reached 10.3 feet around 745am CDT on May 30th, flood stage is 9 feet. At about this same time the creek climbed about 3 feet above flood stage at Genoa, which is in Nance county just southeast of Boone county. The creek fell below flood stage late in the morning of May 30th at Loretto, but remained above flood stage at Genoa until the late evening hours. The flooding closed many county roads from Loretto to Saint Edward and also briefly closed streets in the Saint Edward area and flooded a few basements and businesses in town. Agricultural lowlands were also flooded. |
| July 2000 | Hail | Loretto | - | A cooperative observer west of Loretto reported that hail up to 1 inch in diameter covered the ground. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Loretto | - | Power poles downed. Damage to farm buildings. Trees downed. |
| October 1998 | Hail | Loretto | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Loretto | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Loretto | - | no account filed |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 830894. 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.