BlockSouth Bayard, Nebraska
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in East Bayard precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69334. The Survey maps it on the South Bayard quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 13 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 Camp Clarke quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Scottsbluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Scottsbluff quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS South Bayard quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Scottsbluff quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
59 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of South Bayard between 2007 and 2020, burning about 2,365 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 | 36 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 September 2013 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 2 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 4 August 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 30 August 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 30 August 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 22 August 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 12 August 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 8 July 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Bayard in 5 storm reports between 2014 and 2025: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | Hail | South Bayard | - | Storm chaser reported 3 inch diameter hail in western Morrill County. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | South Bayard | - | Tree limbs were reported being blown by the wind across area streets. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | South Bayard | - | Estimated wind gusts reached up to 52 knots with no apparent damage from them. |
| August 2014 | Hail | South Bayard | - | Quarter to ping pong ball size hail was observed a few miles southwest of Bayard. |
| June 2022 | Hail | South Bayard | - | no account filed |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122544862 | 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 835450. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.