Melia, Nebraska

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Melia-Forest City precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68028. The Survey maps it on the Ashland East quadrangle. 98 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,119 feet above sea level.

Melia within Sarpy County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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.

1893 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:125000
1896 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1955 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Ashland East quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1982 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

16 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Melia between 2005 and 2019, burning about 84 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	12
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
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
4 July 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
4 July 2013	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
27 July 2012	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
23 July 2012	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
19 July 2010	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
8 June 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
15 June 2012	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
28 May 2010	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sarpy 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
Linoma Beach	3.2 miles	17
Beacon View	3.4 miles	17
Gretna	3.6 miles	19
Plattford (historical)	4.8 miles	17
Springfield	7.5 miles	17
Meadow	8.4 miles	17
Chalco	9.0 miles	19
Richfield	10.6 miles	18

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 Melia	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18343663	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 835379. 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.