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Fontanelle Township HallFontanelle Township Hall · Public domain
D−Outdoors
Outdoors in Township 6

Few parks or trails are on the map in Township 6

4% of residents live within a half mile of a park. 0.8 miles of mapped trail cross Township 6. 2 acres are parks and preserves, 1.3 per 1,000 residents.

Ahead of 5% of U.S. towns. What drives it

Conserved land
under 1%
4 acres · of 113.9 sq mi of land
Trails
0.8 mi
0.0 per sq mi of land
Park land
2 ac
1.3 acres per 1,000 residents
Near a park
4%
of residents within ½ mile
Lakes & rivers
8
Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Township 6 have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Township 6 is ahead of 5% of U.S. towns. All four inputs are below most U.S. towns; park acres per resident come closest.

D−
OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Township 6’s overall grade.
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 5%
LessMore
NoteFew parks or trails are mapped in Township 6. OpenStreetMap is mapped by volunteers and coverage varies from town to town, so a town with unmapped parks scores low on them.
How sure. Graded on any three of the four inputs instead, the letter would range from D− to D. Trails and many small parks come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by volunteers, so coverage varies from town to town; the half mile is a straight line from each census block, so a river or highway in the way isn’t counted against it.

PAD-US, OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors), Census 2025 Gazetteer and 2020 blocks; details in Sources below. How TownRatings grades the outdoors →

The map

Conserved land, trails & bike routes

Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it.

Easements protect land from building but are usually private.© OpenStreetMap contributors · USGS PAD-US
Who protects it

4 conserved acres

under 1% of Township 6’s land. Who manages Township 6’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.

Land trusts & nonprofits4 ac
Conservation Easement · 4 ac
Good to know

Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors. 4 acres are conservation easements, usually private land. The walks above are places people visit.

Things to do

2 places to go in Township 6

Beaches, playgrounds, peaks, falls and more. Pick a kind.

Playgrounds in Township 6

1 playground without a name on the map. Tap “Show all on map” to see it.

Trails & water

8 lakes & rivers

Biking & sports

0.0 miles of bike routes

Bike lanes are often missing from the map in smaller towns, so that number is likely low.

Courts & fields
1Basketball

Includes school and college facilities, which aren’t always open to the public.

History along the way

1 place on the National Register

The country’s official list of places worth saving (National Park Service).

History →
Fontanelle Township HallBuilding · listed 1982
About it
When to get out

April is the best month for walking in Township 6

NOAA’s 1991–2020 normals for the town and the daylight at its latitude. Outlined months have long days, highs of 59 to 86 °F and little rain for the place.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)9.510.511.813.314.515.214.913.812.411.09.89.2
High (°F)313649627282868377644935
Rain (in)0.80.91.83.24.74.83.43.93.22.41.41.2

January is the driest month (0.8 in) and July the warmest (highs of 86 °F). 4.8 inches fall in June, the wettest month. The climate in Township 6 →

Next door

Township 6 and its neighbors

Tap a town to see its outdoors.

TownConserved
of land
Trail mi
per sq mi
Park acres
per 1,000
Near a park
½ mile
Outdoors
Township 6under 1%under 0.114%D−
Blair4%0.92394%A−
Township 51%under 0.1425%D
Nickerson Township— not graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town
Township 7under 1%under 0.1under 1under 1%D−
Township 217%0.1under 126%C
Hooper Township1%under 0.112%D

The four inputs of the Outdoors grade, from the engine; shares are of land, not water.

Questions about parks and trails in Township 6

How much of Township 6 is conserved land?

under 1% of its land, against a typical 4% for a Nebraska town and 4% nationally (PAD-US). Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors: easements are usually private land.

Is there public land near Township 6?

4,429 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Township 6 or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 2 of them inside the town line.

How much outdoors does Township 6 have?

Ahead of 5% of U.S. towns on the Outdoors grade. The grade combines the share of land that is conserved, miles of mapped trail per square mile of land, park acres per 1,000 residents and the share of residents within a half mile of a park. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.

Trail talk

Conditions, parking and favorite walks from Township 6 neighbors.

Town Square →
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Sources

Where this page comes from

Conserved and public land: USGS Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US), service updated July 2026. Parks, trails, playgrounds, beaches and other places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL), map data as of 2026-10-28. Land and water area: Census 2025 Gazetteer. Residents near a park: 2020 Census blocks. National Register: National Park Service. How TownRatings grades the outdoors →