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Moomaw Corner, Nebraska

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in East Bayard precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69334. The Survey maps it on the Bayard quadrangle.

Moomaw Corner within Morrill County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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.

Fires near this place

68 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Moomaw Corner between 2007 and 2020, burning about 425 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 2 were 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 burning37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use4
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism2
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
2 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
14 September 2020Railroad operations and maintenance11 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
4 August 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
3 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
22 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 July 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
4 July 2014Fireworks10 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
3 July 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morrill 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Craft1.2 miles13
Perrin4.1 miles13
Bayard4.3 miles13
Piper5.2 miles13
South Bayard7.0 miles13
Mohler8.5 miles13
Atkins8.6 miles13
Angora10.8 miles13

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 Q18391124The 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 831391. 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.