BlockNorthport, Nebraska
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in North Camp Clarke precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69336. It stands on Upper Dugout Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bridgeport 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 Camp Clarke quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Scottsbluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Scottsbluff quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Bridgeport quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Scottsbluff quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
11 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Northport between 2007 and 2018, burning about 8 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 |
|---|---|
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 August 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 14 August 2018 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 12 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 5 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 30 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 29 June 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 24 June 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 12 June 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Northport in 1 storm report in 2016: 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2016 | Hail | Northport | - | Half dollar size hail was reported at Northport. |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Northport | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q18354936 | 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 831756. 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.