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Ponca, Nebraska

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Raymond Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68760. It stands on Verdigre Creek. The Survey maps it on the Verdigre NE quadrangle.

Ponca within Knox County

On record in Ponca

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Ponca between 2007 and 2018, burning about 601 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 burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
28 May 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
12 April 2018Debris and open burning600 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Knox 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Dukeville3.4 miles10
Niobrara3.8 miles11
Sparta6.6 miles10
Jelen6.9 miles10
Pishelville7.4 miles10
Verdigre8.2 miles10
Verdel9.3 miles12
Knoxville12.1 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 835418. 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.