BlockPiercy Place, Nebraska
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Goose Creek precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69201. The Survey maps it on the Long Lake SE quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1949 USGS Long Lake quadrangle1:62500
- 1951 USGS Long Lake quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Valentine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Valentine quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Goose Creek quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Long Lake SE quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
6 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Piercy Place between 1994 and 2002, burning about 1,514 acres in total. 6 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 6 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 August 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge | KRZYANOWSK |
| 7 June 2002 | Natural | 1.5 acres | Valentine National Wildlife Refuge | DEWEY |
| 7 June 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Valentine National Wildlife Refuge | TOWER1 |
| 7 June 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Valentine National Wildlife Refuge | TOWER2 |
| 24 June 2002 | Natural | 12 acres | Valentine National Wildlife Refuge | DEWEY2FIRE |
| 9 April 2001 | Natural | 1,500 acres | Valentine National Wildlife Refuge | S.HIGGINS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hartgraves Place | 4.0 miles | 10 | |
| Cascade | 11.9 miles | 9 | |
| Falter Place | 14.5 miles | 9 | |
| Elsmere | 14.9 miles | 9 | |
| Brownlee | 16.1 miles | 9 | |
| Conterra | 17.1 miles | 9 | |
| Wood Lake | 20.6 miles | 9 | |
| Arabia | 26.5 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.
| Wikidata item Q122559204 | 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 835464. 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.