BlockVenus, Nebraska
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Walnut Grove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68764. The Survey maps it on the Venus quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1955 USGS O'Neill quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS O'Neill quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Venus quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1969 USGS O'Neill quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS O'Neill quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS O'Neill quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
4 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Venus between 2007 and 2020, burning about 37 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 | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 May 2014 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 28 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 23 March 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 28 November 2020 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this place
7 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Venus in 7 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 6 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2025 | Hail | Venus | - | Trained spotter report of hail estimated up to 1 inch in diameter. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Venus | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 mph downed trees and blew windows out of a house west of Creighton. |
| June 2002 | Hail | Venus | - | A cooperative observer reported nickel size hail along with thunderstorm wind gusts of 50 to 60 mph. |
| July 2015 | Hail | Venus | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Venus | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Hail | Venus | - | no account filed |
| September 2010 | Hail | Venus | - | 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.
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 Venus | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q18358726 | 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 835472. 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.