BlockWillow Island, Nebraska
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Gothenburg precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69171. It stands on Willow Island. The Survey maps it on the Willow Island quadrangle. 25 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,526 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresWillow Island fell from 26 to 25 between 2010 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 26 | |
| 2020 | 25 | -1 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1902 USGS Gothenburg quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS McCook quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS McCook quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS McCook quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1970 USGS Willow Island quadrangle1:24000
- 1979 USGS Gothenburg quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
12 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Willow Island between 2006 and 2012, burning about 328 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 | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 21 September 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 10 July 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 21 May 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 28 April 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 28 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 8 November 2007 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 25 November 2008 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Willow Island: 1 producer. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| C. Kirkpatrick & Son Sand & Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
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.
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 Willow Island | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4164717 | The 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 834776. 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.