BlockMegeath, Nebraska
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Brule precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69127. The Survey maps it on the Brule quadrangle.
On record in Megeath
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
California Hilllisted 1974 · 0.9 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 16 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.
- 1897 USGS Ogallala quadrangle1:125000
- 1900 USGS Ogallala quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1954 USGS North Platte quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS North Platte quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS North Platte quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Brule quadrangle1:24000
- 1967 USGS North Platte quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Ogallala quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
42 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Megeath between 2007 and 2020, burning about 94 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 16 |
| Debris and open burning | 15 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Natural | 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 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 11 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 10 September 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 6 August 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 24 August 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 15 August 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 11 August 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 11 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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.
| Wikidata item Q122598351 | 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 835378. 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.