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R-Villa Courts, Nebraska

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Precinct 11. It lies in ZIP code area 68845. The Survey maps it on the Kearney quadrangle.

R-Villa Courts within Buffalo County

On record in R-Villa Courts

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

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

88 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of R-Villa Courts between 2007 and 2020, burning about 111 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined30
Debris and open burning25
Equipment and vehicle use15
Fireworks7
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Natural3
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2018Naturalunder 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

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of R-Villa Courts: 3 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

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
Kearney1.8 miles20
Prairie View Estates1.8 miles20
Alfalfa Center3.4 miles18
Glenwood Park3.8 miles20
Riverdale6.3 miles15
Buda6.5 miles16
Odessa7.5 miles16
Amherst9.5 miles16

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 Q122548908The 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 1875163. 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.