West Union, Nebraska

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1994. It stands in West Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68874. The Survey maps it on the Sargent West quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

West Union within Custer County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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.

1952 USGS Sargent West quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1955 USGS Broken Bow quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1956 USGS Broken Bow quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Burwell quadrangle1:100000
1994 USGS Burwell quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

5 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of West Union (historical) between 2007 and 2018, burning about 88 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	4
Smoking	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
8 March 2018	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
31 March 2018	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
5 February 2013	Smoking	6.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
22 February 2009	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
6 January 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Custer 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
Cummings Park (historical)	4.6 miles	11
Sargent	4.7 miles	11
Walworth	6.3 miles	11
Round Valley	6.8 miles	11
Gates	9.4 miles	11
Elton (historical)	10.5 miles	11
Lillian	10.8 miles	11
Wescott	12.8 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1848040. 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.