BlockMartland, Nebraska
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Stanton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68436. The Survey maps it on the Shickley quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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 Hebron quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Shickley quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Fairbury quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
15 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Martland between 1997 and 2017, burning about 121 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 | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 24 July 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | Rainwater Basin Wetland Management District | ATLANTA |
| 2 July 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 18 July 2009 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 22 June 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 4 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 22 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | 91 acres | Rainwater Basin Wetland Management District | MALLARD HAVEN DECLARED ESCAPED PRESCRIBED FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 835374. 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.