BlockStoddard, Nebraska
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Chester precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68370. The Survey maps it on the Chester 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
6 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 Hebron quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Chester quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Fairbury quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
26 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Stoddard (historical) between 2010 and 2019, burning about 80 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 29 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 28 September 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 26 September 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 26 August 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.5 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 20 August 2010 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 12 August 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 4 July 2013 | Fireworks | under an acre | 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 1882977. 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.