Rescue, Nebraska

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Chester Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68050. The Survey maps it on the Prague quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Rescue within Saunders County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1899 USGS Wahoo quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Prague quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

21 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Rescue (historical) between 2003 and 2020, burning about 158 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	11
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3

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
11 September 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
7 July 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
20 July 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
19 July 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
8 June 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
24 May 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
25 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
23 April 2018	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saunders 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
Prague	4.0 miles	11
Morse Bluff	8.2 miles	11
Malmo	9.5 miles	11
Weston	12.4 miles	11
Cedar Bluffs	14.2 miles	12
Colon	14.4 miles	11
Touhy	14.8 miles	11
Wahoo	16.1 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1897433. 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.