Meadville, Nebraska

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Garfield precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68778. It stands on Rock Creek. The Survey maps it on the Meadville quadrangle.

Meadville within Keya Paha County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1950 USGS Meadville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1955 USGS O'Neill quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS O'Neill quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1969 USGS O'Neill quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Ainsworth quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS O'Neill quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

8 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Meadville between 2011 and 2019, burning about 84 acres in total. 4 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
Natural	4
Debris and open burning	3
Equipment and vehicle use	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
21 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
24 July 2017	Natural	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
3 June 2012	Natural	50 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
11 June 2013	Natural	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
16 May 2013	Natural	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
17 February 2011	Debris and open burning	11 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
11 February 2011	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
2 January 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Keya Paha 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Springview	7.0 miles	9
Riverview	13.9 miles	11
Norden	14.1 miles	10
Rocky Ford	17.0 miles	11
Burton	17.2 miles	9
Carns (historical)	19.5 miles	11
Mills	24.9 miles	9
Brocksburg	29.8 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 831181. 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.