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Oconee, Nebraska

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Oconee Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68601. The Survey maps it on the Monroe quadrangle.

Oconee within Platte County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

30 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Oconee between 2001 and 2020, burning about 130 acres in total. None 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 burning15
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism1
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
3 August 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
20 August 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
11 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
4 July 2011Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
4 July 2011Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
18 July 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
28 June 2009Arson/incendiarism35 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
26 June 2010Fireworksunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Platte County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Oconee: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Po-2 Oconee Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Platte County

Storms near this place

5 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oconee in 5 storm reports between 2011 and 2019: 2 hail, 2 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2019FloodOconee-Evacuations are beginning in the Lake Oconee area.
June 2018FloodOconee-Heavy rainfall caused water to go over the road at Nebraska Highway 22 and 280th Avenue east of Oconee.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindOconee-The Platte county Emergency Manager estimated thunderstorm wind gusts reached around 60 mph several miles northwest of Columbus.
May 2015HailOconee-no account filed
June 2014HailOconee-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Platte 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
Monroe4.3 miles14
Platte Center4.9 miles8
Sheldonville4.9 miles13
Duncan5.7 miles13
College View Park6.9 miles13
Countryview Estates6.9 miles13
Wagners Lake7.8 miles13
Gardiner8.1 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.

Wikipedia article on OconeeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18356085The 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 831826. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.