Wheeler, Nebraska

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Bartlett precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68622. It lies near Buffalo Flats. The Survey maps it on the Bartlett NW quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Wheeler within Wheeler County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

1954 USGS Bartlett NW quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Broken Bow quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1956 USGS Broken Bow quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Ord quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Wheeler (historical) between 2008 and 2015, burning about 91 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	1
Fireworks	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 August 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
26 June 2010	Natural	15 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
29 October 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	75 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
19 January 2015	Fireworks	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wheeler 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
Cumminsville	4.1 miles	10
Headquarters (historical)	7.2 miles	11
Stokes Ranch	7.6 miles	11
Bartlett	8.0 miles	10
Mignery Ranch	10.2 miles	11
Koinzan Ranch	11.5 miles	11
Day Ranch	12.0 miles	11
Ericson	14.5 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1847498. 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.