BlockSimeon, Nebraska
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Cleveland precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69201. The Survey maps it on the Simeon quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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.
- 1950 USGS Simeon quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Valentine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Valentine quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Simeon quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Valentine quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
33 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Simeon between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,024 acres in total. 23 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 23 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2000 | Natural | 45 acres | Valentine National Wildlife Refuge | BALLARD2 |
| 8 September 2000 | Natural | 15 acres | Valentine National Wildlife Refuge | BALLARD1 |
| 8 September 2000 | Natural | 60 acres | Valentine National Wildlife Refuge | S.BALLARD |
| 8 September 2000 | Natural | 140 acres | Valentine National Wildlife Refuge | MIDBALLARD |
| 8 September 2000 | Natural | 94 acres | Valentine National Wildlife Refuge | FISCHER2 |
| 7 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Valentine National Wildlife Refuge | POWER POLE |
| 29 September 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Valentine National Wildlife Refuge | DUCK SPOT |
| 2 September 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Valentine National Wildlife Refuge | BALLARD |
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 Simeon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q18358834 | 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 835447. 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.