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Poole, Nebraska

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Precinct 16. It lies in ZIP code area 68869. It stands on Cedar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Poole quadrangle.

Poole within Buffalo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

35 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Poole between 2007 and 2018, burning about 84 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 burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
4 September 2012Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2018Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
4 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
29 July 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
8 June 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Buffalo County

Storms near this place

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Poole in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2022HailPoole$250,000no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindPoole$70,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindPoole$25,000no account filed
April 2024Thunderstorm WindPoole-A wind gust of 58 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located eight miles south-southwest of Poole.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindPoole-A wind gust of 63 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located eight miles south-southwest of Poole.
May 2025HailPoole-no account filed
July 2022HailPoole-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Buffalo 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
Ravenna4.4 miles11
Sweetwater4.9 miles11
Pleasanton6.2 miles15
Nantasket (historical)6.8 miles12
Prairie Center9.5 miles16
Saint Michael12.1 miles12
Sartoria12.9 miles15
Riverdale16.9 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 832314. 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.