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Mascot, Nebraska

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Spring Grove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68967. The Survey maps it on the Mascot quadrangle. It stands 2,136 feet above sea level.

Mascot within Harlan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

16 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Mascot between 2007 and 2019, burning about 21 acres in total. 1 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 burning7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural1
Fireworks1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
15 July 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
12 July 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
19 May 2013Natural1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
21 April 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
16 April 2013Fireworksunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
15 April 2007Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 March 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
27 March 2019Debris and open burning3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harlan County

Storms near this place

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mascot in 3 storm reports between 2002 and 2008: 2 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
August 2008Flash FloodMascot$20,000Army Corps of Engineers reported that about 100 yards of a country road was under water two miles west of Orleans, just south of Highway 89.
July 2005HailMascot-no account filed
June 2002HailMascot-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Harlan 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
Oxford Junction3.5 miles13
Flynn Junction9.3 miles13
Stamford9.4 miles13
Orleans10.5 miles13
Ragan14.0 miles13
Huntley14.0 miles13
Alma15.1 miles13
Republican City20.7 miles13

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 MascotAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18356818The 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 831079. 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.