Orafino, Nebraska

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Orafino precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69022. The Survey maps it on the Medicine Creek Dam quadrangle.

Orafino within Frontier County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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 McCook quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Medicine Creek Dam quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS McCook quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS McCook quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1979 USGS McCook quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

3 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Orafino between 2013 and 2020, burning about 916 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

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
13 May 2013	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
24 March 2020	Debris and open burning	900 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
23 December 2020	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Frontier 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
Stockville	8.5 miles	12
Freedom	9.0 miles	8
Eustis	15.6 miles	10
Moorefield	16.1 miles	11
Curtis	17.7 miles	8
Quick	22.5 miles	7
Maywood	23.6 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 831885. 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.