Olean, Nebraska

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in North Loup Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68859. The Survey maps it on the Ord SE quadrangle.

Olean within Valley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

1954 USGS Ord SE quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Broken Bow quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1956 USGS Broken Bow quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Ord quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

8 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Olean between 2003 and 2020, burning about 21 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
1 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
15 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
13 May 2014	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
6 March 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
24 March 2012	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
25 February 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
3 November 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
25 November 2014	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Valley 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
Sumter	2.2 miles	11
Spelts	3.2 miles	11
Saunders	4.6 miles	11
North Loup	4.9 miles	12
Ord	6.9 miles	11
Vinton (historical)	9.3 miles	11
Elyria	13.4 miles	10
Geranium (historical)	17.5 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 Olean	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18356873	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 835397. 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.