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Richfield, Nebraska

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Fairview precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68059. The Survey maps it on the Cedar Creek quadrangle. 42 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Richfield within Sarpy County

Population over time

2 figures

Richfield fell from 43 to 42 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201043
202042-1 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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

62 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Richfield between 2011 and 2020, burning about 22 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Debris and open burning14
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Recreation and ceremony7
Fireworks7
Smoking5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
8 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
23 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
11 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
11 September 2012Smokingunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
2 August 2015Smokingunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
7 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sarpy County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Richfield: 1 producer. 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
Plant #5,CullomSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Sarpy County

Storms near this place

8 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Richfield in 8 storm reports between 2016 and 2018: 7 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2017Thunderstorm WindRichfield-Large tree limbs were blown down.
June 2018HailRichfield-no account filed
June 2017HailRichfield-no account filed
June 2017HailRichfield-no account filed
April 2016HailRichfield-no account filed
June 2016HailRichfield-no account filed
June 2016HailRichfield-no account filed
October 2016HailRichfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sarpy 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
Fairview (historical)1.4 miles18
Springfield3.6 miles17
Papillion3.6 miles18
Portal4.7 miles18
Rumsey5.1 miles15
La Vista5.7 miles18
Capehart6.4 miles15
Chalco6.6 miles19

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 RichfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5680023The 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 832541. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.