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Straussville, Nebraska

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Ohio precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68355. It stands on Goolsby Branch. The Survey maps it on the Salem quadrangle.

Straussville within Richardson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

Fires near this place

19 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Straussville between 2003 and 2020, burning about 110 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
Debris and open burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
16 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
13 June 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
9 April 2010Debris and open burning12 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
18 April 2020Debris and open burning5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
7 March 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 March 2009Debris and open burning5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
5 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Richardson County

Storms near this place

5 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Straussville in 5 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 3 hail, 2 flash flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2021HailStraussville-Public reported 1 inch hail.
May 2019Flash FloodStraussville-The public reported many county roads were flooded. Estimated 4 to 5 inches of rain since midnight.
May 2019Flash FloodStraussville-The public reported water over the banks of streams north of Falls City.
March 2009HailStraussville-no account filed
April 1995HailStraussville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Richardson 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Falls City3.7 miles12
Archer (historical)3.8 miles12
Verdon5.0 miles11
Salem5.1 miles11
Williamsville (historical)7.5 miles12
Preston Census Designated Place8.0 miles12
Preston8.0 miles12
Barada8.2 miles12

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 StraussvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18385770The 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 833858. 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.