Mumper, Nebraska

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Lost Creek precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69351. The Survey maps it on the Mumper quadrangle.

Mumper within Garden 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.

1949 USGS Mumper quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Scottsbluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Scottsbluff quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Crescent Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Mumper quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

21 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Mumper between 1992 and 2013, burning about 5,959 acres in total. 18 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
Natural	18
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 September 1995	Natural	1.0 acres	Crescent Lake National Wildlife Refuge	PERRIN
8 August 1995	Natural	under an acre	Crescent Lake National Wildlife Refuge	HEADQUARTE
8 August 1995	Natural	2.0 acres	Crescent Lake National Wildlife Refuge	FA 2
8 August 1995	Natural	1.5 acres	Crescent Lake National Wildlife Refuge	N DIETLEIN
24 August 1994	Natural	4.0 acres	Crescent Lake National Wildlife Refuge	BEAN LAKE
21 August 2005	Natural	43 acres	Crescent Lake National Wildlife Refuge	HILL
17 July 2005	Natural	27 acres	Crescent Lake National Wildlife Refuge	TOWER
10 July 1993	Natural	20 acres	Crescent Lake National Wildlife Refuge	CHRISTLAKE

Every fire recorded in Garden County

Storms near this place

4 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mumper in 4 storm reports in 2003: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2003	Hail	Mumper	$2,000	no account filed
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Mumper	-	Large limbs were broken off trees.
May 2003	Tornado (F0)	Mumper	-	A brief tornado touched down in open rangeland with no damage.
June 2003	Hail	Mumper	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Garden 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
Rackett	14.0 miles	11
Lisco	20.6 miles	11
Oshkosh	25.1 miles	11
Lewellen	33.6 miles	11

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 Mumper	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17560839	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 835385. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.