Violet, Nebraska

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Precinct 5, Burchard. It lies in ZIP code area 68420. It stands on Balls Branch. The Survey maps it on the Burchard quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Violet within Pawnee County

On record in Violet

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.

Rinne Farmlisted 2015 · 0.4 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

1955 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Burchard quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Beatrice quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

6 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Violet (historical) between 2007 and 2012, burning about 325 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	5
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
5 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	60 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
21 April 2009	Debris and open burning	60 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
2 April 2012	Debris and open burning	100 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
6 March 2011	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
28 March 2007	Debris and open burning	60 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
14 March 2007	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pawnee 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
Burchard	5.2 miles	10
Steinauer	5.3 miles	10
Pawnee City	5.6 miles	10
Mayberry	6.9 miles	10
Bookwalter	7.8 miles	10
Armour (historical)	8.8 miles	11
Table Rock	9.0 miles	10
Mission (historical)	10.8 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1883686. 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.