Martin, Nebraska
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Whitetail precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69146. The Survey maps it on the Martin quadrangle. 76 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,300 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresMartin fell from 92 to 76 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 92 | |
| 2020 | 76 | -16 (-17%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 16 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.
- 1897 USGS Ogallala quadrangle1:125000
- 1900 USGS Ogallala quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1954 USGS North Platte quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS North Platte quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS North Platte quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS North Platte quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Martin quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Ogallala quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
45 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Martin between 2008 and 2020, burning about 2,917 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 3 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Fireworks | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 2010 | Natural | 500 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 26 September 2020 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 20 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 25 September 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 August 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 4 August 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 4 August 2012 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 3 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 18 August 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | 10 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Martin in 1 storm report in 1998: 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1998 | Hail | Martin | - | 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.
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 Martin | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6002227 | 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 835373. 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.







