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Whiteclay, Nebraska

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in North Rushville precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69365. It stands on Craven Creek. The Survey maps it on the Whiteclay quadrangle. 8 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,294 feet above sea level.

Whiteclay within Sheridan County

Population over time

3 figures

Whiteclay fell from 14 to 8 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
200014
201010-4 (-29%)
20208-2 (-20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

Fires near this place

3,403 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3,403 fires within 5 miles of Whiteclay between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,451 acres in total. 33 started naturally. 58 were 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 burning884
Fireworks774
Misuse of fire by a minor758
Equipment and vehicle use285
Other causes284
Missing data/not specified/undetermined239
Arson/incendiarism58
Smoking54
Natural33
Power generation/transmission/distribution17
Recreation and ceremony15
Firearms and explosives use2

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
9 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresPine Ridge AgencyGUPPY
9 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePine Ridge AgencyDEYOTCH
9 September 2012Smokingunder an acrePine Ridge AgencyORANGE
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePine Ridge AgencyGUPS
9 September 2011Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acrePine Ridge AgencyPLAY GROUND II
9 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acrePine Ridge AgencyBIG TRASH
9 September 2003Other causesunder an acrePine Ridge AgencyTACOBRAVO
9 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acrePine Ridge AgencyCRAZYDITCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sheridan County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Whiteclay: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Stout PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Tribal Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Sheridan County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Whiteclay in 1 storm report in 1996: 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 1996HailWhiteclay-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sheridan 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
Pine Ridge0.1 miles8
Adaton (historical)13.5 miles8
Albany (historical)14.3 miles8
Clinton19.6 miles8
Rushville19.8 miles8
Hay Springs22.8 miles8
Gordon22.9 miles8
Peters (historical)34.2 miles8

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 WhiteclayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q964386The 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 834685. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.