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Saltillo, Nebraska

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Yankee Hill precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68430. The Survey maps it on the Roca quadrangle.

Saltillo within Lancaster County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

30 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Saltillo between 2007 and 2020, burning about 53 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning21
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony3
Fireworks2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
7 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
5 August 2012Debris and open burning12 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
27 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
11 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
29 June 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
25 May 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
8 April 2017Fireworks1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
29 April 2018Debris and open burning10 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lancaster 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
Jamaica0.4 miles15
Hanlon2.9 miles15
Rokeby3.0 miles15
Roca3.2 miles15
Centerville4.5 miles15
Pine Lake4.8 miles15
Cheney4.9 miles15
Yankee Hill5.1 miles16

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 SaltilloAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18353827The 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 835440. 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.