Sweetwater, Nebraska
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Precinct 16. It lies in ZIP code area 68844. The Survey maps it on the Hazard quadrangle. It stands 2,060 feet above sea level.
On record in Sweetwater
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Sweetwater Mill Bridgelisted 1992
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 11 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.
- 1951 USGS Hazard quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Broken Bow quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1956 USGS Broken Bow quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Broken Bow quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
28 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Sweetwater between 2007 and 2018, burning about 102 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2012 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 18 September 2018 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 9 August 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 August 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 29 July 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 28 June 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 1 June 2017 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 21 May 2018 | 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
3 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sweetwater in 3 storm reports between 2004 and 2008: 1 funnel cloud, 1 flood, 1 hail. 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 2008 | Hail | Sweetwater | - | no account filed |
| February 2007 | Flood | Sweetwater | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Funnel Cloud | Sweetwater | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poole | 4.9 miles | 13 | |
| Ravenna | 5.2 miles | 11 | |
| Pleasanton | 6.8 miles | 15 | |
| Nantasket (historical) | 8.0 miles | 12 | |
| Sartoria | 11.9 miles | 15 | |
| Prairie Center | 13.0 miles | 16 | |
| Saint Michael | 13.8 miles | 12 | |
| Riverdale | 19.7 miles | 15 |
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 Sweetwater | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7655779 | 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 835461. 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.



