BlockMcGrew, Nebraska
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Castle Rock precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69353. It stands on Ninemile Creek. The Survey maps it on the McGrew quadrangle. 75 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,783 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresMcGrew fell from 105 to 75 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 | 105 | |
| 2020 | 75 | -30 (-29%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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 Camp Clarke quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Scottsbluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Scottsbluff quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS McGrew quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Scottsbluff quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
67 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of McGrew between 2007 and 2020, burning about 751 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 6 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 37 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 5 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 2 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 14 September 2020 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 11 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 30 August 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 30 August 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 26 August 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 25 August 2011 | Natural | 11 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 25 August 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | 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 McGrew | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2648890 | 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 831142. 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.