BlockOrum, Nebraska
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Township 6. It lies in ZIP code area 68008. The Survey maps it on the Orum quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1955 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Orum quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Blair quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Orum between 2014 and 2015, burning about 69 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 | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 21 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 16 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 6 March 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Orum in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2024: 1 hail, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2024 | Tornado (EF0) | Orum | - | This tornado touched down near the intersection of County Road 22 and County Road 15 where trees in the area had several branches broken off. As the tornado continued northeast, several power poles and trees were damaged along its path. This tornado dissipated near the intersection of County Road P20 and County Road 21. The maximum winds in this tornado were estimated to be at 80 miles per hour. The max path width was measured to be 60 yards with an estimated average width at 50 yards. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Orum | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kennard | 6.2 miles | 14 | |
| Telbasta | 6.6 miles | 8 | |
| Blair | 7.7 miles | 9 | |
| Arlington | 7.7 miles | 15 | |
| Fontanelle | 8.4 miles | 8 | |
| Herman | 9.3 miles | 8 | |
| Washington | 10.8 miles | 14 | |
| Admah (historical) | 10.8 miles | 8 |
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 Orum | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q18385657 | 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 831904. 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.