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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.

Sweetwater within Buffalo County

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

28 since 2007

Regional 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/undetermined10
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
4 September 2012Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2018Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
9 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
29 July 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
28 June 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
1 June 2017Smoking1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
21 May 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Buffalo County

Storms near this place

3 since 2004

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2008HailSweetwater-no account filed
February 2007FloodSweetwater-no account filed
May 2004Funnel CloudSweetwater-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Buffalo 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
Poole4.9 miles13
Ravenna5.2 miles11
Pleasanton6.8 miles15
Nantasket (historical)8.0 miles12
Sartoria11.9 miles15
Prairie Center13.0 miles16
Saint Michael13.8 miles12
Riverdale19.7 miles15

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 SweetwaterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7655779The 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.