BlockSawyer, Nebraska
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Madison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68354. The Survey maps it on the Geneva quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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 York quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1899 USGS York quadrangle1:125000
- 1955 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Geneva quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS York quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
20 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Sawyer (historical) between 2005 and 2017, burning about 180 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 were 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 | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 1 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 9 July 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 18 July 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 23 May 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 22 May 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 22 May 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 21 April 2009 | Debris and open burning | 55 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1882232. 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.