Redus, Nebraska

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Ford precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69358. The Survey maps it on the Mitchell quadrangle.

Redus within Scotts Bluff County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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.

1898 USGS Scotts Bluff quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Scottsbluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Scottsbluff quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Mitchell quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Scottsbluff quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

43 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Redus between 2000 and 2020, burning about 2,166 acres in total. 5 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	27
Natural	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Fireworks	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Recreation and ceremony	1

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
30 September 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
22 September 2020	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
2 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
16 September 2018	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
14 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
16 August 2020	Debris and open burning	45 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
9 July 2019	Railroad operations and maintenance	12 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
8 July 2014	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scotts Bluff 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Doyle	2.1 miles	14
Morrill	3.8 miles	14
Mitchell	5.3 miles	14
South Morrill	5.7 miles	14
Pelton	5.8 miles	14
South Mitchell	6.8 miles	14
Joyce	7.1 miles	14
Jane	7.3 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 835425. 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.