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Verona, Nebraska

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lewis Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68933. The Survey maps it on the Saronville quadrangle. It stands 1,772 feet above sea level.

Verona within Clay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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.

In the county-history sources

123 words on this township

The 'centennial' Sketch of Clay County, Nebraska, published 1876 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Lewis Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Lewis Township - 123 words.

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 Verona between 2002 and 2020, burning about 463 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/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Debris and open burning2

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
8 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresRainwater Basin Wetland Management DistrictMCSKUNK
1 July 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
15 June 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
12 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
7 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 March 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution408 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
15 March 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
28 February 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Verona in 1 storm report in 2008: 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
July 2008HailVerona-Accompanied by very heavy rain and winds estimated at 50 mph.

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Saronville3.6 miles15
Clay Center5.2 miles12
Sutton6.7 miles15
Harvard8.3 miles12
Eldorado9.1 miles15
Fairfield11.2 miles11
Edgar12.5 miles12
Ong12.7 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 VeronaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18358805The 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 834374. 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.