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Prairie View Estates, Nebraska

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Precinct 12. It lies in ZIP code area 68847. The Survey maps it on the Kearney quadrangle.

Prairie View Estates within Buffalo County

On record in Prairie View Estates

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 12 of 13 shown

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

Every listing in Buffalo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 20 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

97 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Prairie View Estates between 2007 and 2020, burning about 109 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined35
Debris and open burning32
Equipment and vehicle use13
Fireworks8
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1

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
29 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2012Fireworksunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
10 September 2012Smoking1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Buffalo County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Prairie View Estates: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Broadfoot PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cook Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Johnson Sand and Gravel CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kearney PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working 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
Kearney0.0 miles20
R-Villa Courts1.8 miles20
Glenwood Park3.5 miles20
Buda4.7 miles16
Alfalfa Center5.2 miles18
Riverdale7.3 miles15
Odessa9.3 miles16
Amherst11.1 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1875160. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.