BlockShippee, Nebraska
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Lebanon precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69046. It stands on Johnson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Shippee quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1954 USGS McCook quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS McCook quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Shippee quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS McCook quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS McCook quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
6 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Shippee between 2007 and 2009, burning about 93 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 July 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 35 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 6 July 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 27 July 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 15 July 2007 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 2 May 2007 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 10 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 February 2009 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 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.
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 Shippee | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q18358029 | 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 833408. 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.