BlockMintle, Nebraska
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Funston precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69357. The Survey maps it on the Scottsbluff North quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 14 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 Scotts Bluff quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Scottsbluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Scottsbluff quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Scottsbluff North quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Scottsbluff quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
152 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 152 fires within 5 miles of Mintle between 1997 and 2020, burning about 887 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 1 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 | 93 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 27 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Fireworks | 8 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 5 September 2010 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 24 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 19 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 250 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 1 September 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 1 September 1999 | Natural | 11 acres | Crescent Lake National Wildlife Refuge | NORTHALICE |
| 7 August 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 31 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 14 acres | 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 Q122555180 | 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 835383. 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.