Smyrna, Nebraska

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Nelson precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68978. The Survey maps it on the Superior quadrangle.

Smyrna within Nuckolls County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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.

1898 USGS Superior quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Grand Island quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Grand Island quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Grand Island quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Superior quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Red Cloud quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

15 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Smyrna between 2007 and 2020, burning about 727 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Natural	1
Smoking	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
23 September 2013	Natural	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
22 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
6 August 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
26 July 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	12 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
7 June 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
20 April 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
8 March 2008	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
18 March 2011	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nuckolls 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
Abdal (historical)	3.0 miles	12
Cadams	3.2 miles	12
Nelson	5.7 miles	11
Nora	5.9 miles	12
Superior	6.7 miles	12
Bostwick	7.9 miles	11
Mount Clare	9.1 miles	11
Hardy	10.6 miles	12

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 Smyrna	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18392097	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 835448. 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.