Mount Clare, Nebraska

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Victor precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68957. The Survey maps it on the Mount Clare quadrangle.

Mount Clare within Nuckolls County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1898 USGS Superior quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Grand Island quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Grand Island quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Grand Island quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Mount Clare quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Red Cloud quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

12 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Mount Clare between 2008 and 2017, burning about 82 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	5
Debris and open burning	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Natural	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
6 June 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
20 June 2015	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
11 June 2013	Natural	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
13 April 2016	Debris and open burning	55 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
31 March 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
10 March 2015	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
29 February 2016	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nuckolls 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
Saint Stephens	5.3 miles	11
Abdal (historical)	6.5 miles	12
Lawrence	7.9 miles	11
Nelson	8.1 miles	11
Smyrna	9.1 miles	12
Bostwick	9.4 miles	11
Cadams	12.3 miles	12
Nora	13.2 miles	12

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 Mount Clare	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18391295	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 831451. 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.