Tangeman, Nebraska

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in McWilliams precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68448. It stands on South Fork Little Nemaha River. The Survey maps it on the Talmage quadrangle.

Tangeman within Otoe County

On record in Tangeman

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Bridgelisted 1992 · 0.6 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1903 USGS Weeping Water quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1929 USGS Weeping Water quadrangle1:125000
1955 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Talmage quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

12 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Tangeman between 2002 and 2020, burning about 42 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 burning	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Recreation and ceremony	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
13 June 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
23 May 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
4 April 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
29 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.2 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
21 March 2009	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
16 March 2015	Recreation and ceremony	10 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
14 March 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
1 March 2020	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Otoe 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Talmage	3.9 miles	13
Cio (historical)	4.2 miles	13
Delta (historical)	4.2 miles	13
Lorton	4.2 miles	13
Dunbar	8.1 miles	13
Syracuse	8.6 miles	13
Elberon	9.9 miles	11
Paul	10.4 miles	11

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 Q122549681

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 835462. 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.