BlockPrairie Home, Nebraska
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Stevens Creek precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68527. The Survey maps it on the Walton quadrangle. 38 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,329 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 16 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.
- 1897 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Walton quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
19 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Prairie Home between 2007 and 2020, burning about 150 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 | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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 August 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 4 July 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 3 July 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 9 May 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 29 May 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 15 May 2019 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 13 May 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | 6.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 4 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marian Center | 2.8 miles | 15 | |
| Waverly | 3.7 miles | 15 | |
| Walton | 5.1 miles | 16 | |
| Havelock | 6.1 miles | 16 | |
| Bethany | 6.4 miles | 16 | |
| University Place | 7.3 miles | 16 | |
| Arbor | 8.3 miles | 15 | |
| Lincoln | 8.9 miles | 16 |
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 Prairie Home | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q16898780 | 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 832367. 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.