BlockMcCool Junction, Nebraska
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Hays precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68401. It stands on Galaway Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fairmont quadrangle. 453 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,562 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresMcCool Junction grew from 409 to 453 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 | 409 | |
| 2020 | 453 | +44 (+11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 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 York quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1899 USGS York quadrangle1:125000
- 1955 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Fairmont quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS York quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
10 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of McCool Junction between 2005 and 2018, burning about 260 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 | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Fireworks | 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 July 2011 | Fireworks | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 28 March 2005 | Debris and open burning | 119 acres | Rainwater Basin Wetland Management District | REAL |
| 18 February 2018 | Debris and open burning | 13 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 9 December 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 14 December 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Rainwater Basin Wetland Management District | COUNTYLINE |
| 2 November 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 9 October 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 October 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 8.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
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.
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 McCool Junction | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1966462 | 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 831119. 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.