Midland, Nebraska

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Columbia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68786. The Survey maps it on the Midland quadrangle.

Midland within Knox County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1955 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Midland quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Norfolk quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

3 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Midland between 2013 and 2020, burning about 16 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
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Debris and open burning	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
20 February 2015	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
16 October 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
1 January 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Wausa

Every fire recorded in Knox 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
Wausa	8.7 miles	9
Bloomfield	9.5 miles	10
Creighton	10.9 miles	9
Bazile Mills	11.3 miles	10
Center	13.5 miles	10
Winnetoon	14.1 miles	10
Lindy	18.5 miles	10
Sparta	19.4 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 835380. 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.