Saunders, Nebraska

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Ord Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68862. It stands on Elm Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ord quadrangle.

Saunders within Valley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

1954 USGS Ord quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Broken Bow quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1956 USGS Broken Bow quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Ord quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

7 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Saunders between 2012 and 2020, burning about 165 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
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Debris and open burning	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
7 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
1 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
13 May 2014	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
8 April 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
6 March 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
28 February 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
4 December 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	150 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Valley 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
Spelts	2.3 miles	11
Ord	2.3 miles	11
Olean	4.6 miles	11
Sumter	5.3 miles	11
Vinton (historical)	5.9 miles	11
North Loup	8.8 miles	12
Elyria	9.0 miles	10
Geranium (historical)	13.0 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 833232. 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.