Saint Stephens, Nebraska

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Victor precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68957. The Survey maps it on the Lawrence quadrangle.

Saint Stephens within Nuckolls 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.

1898 USGS Superior quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Grand Island quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Grand Island quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Grand Island quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Red Cloud quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

37 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Saint Stephens between 2005 and 2020, burning about 336 acres in total. 1 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	14
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Natural	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
28 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
22 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
19 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
11 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
9 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
6 June 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
30 June 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
27 June 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nuckolls 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
Lawrence	2.7 miles	11
Mount Clare	5.3 miles	11
Nelson	10.6 miles	11
Abdal (historical)	11.5 miles	12
Smyrna	13.7 miles	12
Bostwick	14.7 miles	11
Angus	14.8 miles	12
Nora	16.4 miles	12

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 Saint Stephens	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18353486	The 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 833107. 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.