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Rosemont, Nebraska

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in District 1. It lies in ZIP code area 68930. The Survey maps it on the Lawrence quadrangle.

Rosemont within Webster 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.

Fires near this place

20 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Rosemont between 2007 and 2018, burning about 231 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 burning10
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
22 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use20 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
9 July 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
18 June 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
30 April 2007Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
29 April 2011Debris and open burning20 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
15 April 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
9 March 2016Debris and open burning50 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Webster County

Storms near this place

8 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rosemont in 8 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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 2018HailRosemont$25,000no account filed
May 2011FloodRosemont$15,000Storm total rainfall accumulations of 2 to 5 inches were reported across the area. Water covered a few county roads, and Highway 281 south of Red Cloud also had a small area briefly covered in 3 to 4 inches of water. Lowland flooding was also reported.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindRosemont$1,000Wind gusts estimated to be near 60 MPH knocked down some tree limbs of at least a few inches in diameter.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindRosemont-A wind gust of 62 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located two miles west of Lawrence.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindRosemont-Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH.
September 2023HailRosemont-no account filed
June 2017HailRosemont-no account filed
October 2011HailRosemont-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Webster 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
Blue Hill5.5 miles11
Cowles9.0 miles11
Bladen12.5 miles12
Amboy14.1 miles11
Lester Junction14.5 miles11
Guide Rock14.8 miles11
Pawnee Village15.9 miles11
Red Cloud16.0 miles15

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 RosemontAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q20710866The 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 835432. 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.

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.