Pelton, Nebraska

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Mitchell precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69357. The Survey maps it on the Mitchell quadrangle.

Pelton within Scotts Bluff County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1898 USGS Scotts Bluff quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Scottsbluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Scottsbluff quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Mitchell quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Scottsbluff quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

43 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Pelton between 2007 and 2020, burning about 773 acres in total. 2 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	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Natural	2
Fireworks	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
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
14 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
31 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	14 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
18 August 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
13 August 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
11 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
10 August 2018	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
10 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
9 July 2019	Railroad operations and maintenance	12 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scotts Bluff 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
South Mitchell	1.3 miles	14
Mitchell	1.9 miles	14
Jane	3.2 miles	14
Hubbard Corner	3.5 miles	14
Doyle	4.7 miles	14
Haig	4.9 miles	14
South Morrill	5.1 miles	14
Morrill	5.7 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 835408. 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.