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Gosper County, Nebraska
18 topographic sheets cover 3 settlements here, and 1 property is on the National Register of Historic Places.
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What the record shows
- 50 topographic sheet readings cover the county's settlements.
- 1 property here is on the National Register of Historic Places, listed as a building.
- The Geographic Names Information System records 3 populated places in this county; 3 are covered by at least one topographic sheet.
Places on the National Register
1Every property in this county listed on the National Register of Historic Places, with the year it was listed and the federal nomination document.
| Photograph | Property | Type | Listed | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Gosper County Courthouse | building | 1990 | 90000961 |
Wildfire, 2004 to 2020
50 firesEvery wildfire the federal occurrence database records inside this county: 50 of them, burning about 665 acres. 5 started naturally and none was recorded as arson. Each settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
The five largest, by the area the report gives. None of them was recorded as arson.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 February 2014 | Debris and open burning | 239 acres | Rainwater Basin Wetland Management District | ATLANTA |
| 19 October 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 80 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 6 March 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 76 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 6 April 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 62 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 11 December 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 47 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 29 March 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | 40 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 6 November 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 23 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 25 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Every settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it - see the settlement index below.
Storms, 1956 to 2024
60 of 276 shownThe NOAA Storm Events Database holds 276 reports for this county, causing no deaths, 5 injuries and about $6,559,000 in recorded property damage. Each settlement page carries the reports that name it.
| Kind of event | Reports |
|---|---|
| Hail | 158 |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 84 |
| Tornado | 18 |
| Flash Flood | 7 |
| Heavy Rain | 4 |
| Funnel Cloud | 3 |
| Flood | 1 |
| Lightning | 1 |
The most serious of them, by death, then injury, then recorded damage. The accounts are quoted exactly as the forecast office filed them.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1998 | Tornado (F1) | Elwood | 4 hurt, $500,000 | no account filed |
| May 1971 | Tornado (F0) | not stated | 1 hurt, $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Flash Flood | Countywide | $1,000,000 | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Johnson Res | $750,000 | Half dollar size hail fell along with the 70 mph winds. |
| June 1996 | Lightning | Smithfield | $500,000 | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Smithfield | $250,000 | Satellite imagery reveals a swath of what was presumably at least golf ball size hail and likely up to baseball size hail that stretched from extreme southeastern Gosper County to central Phelps County on the afternoon of June 30th. The path was about 2 to 3 miles wide. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Johnson Res | $250,000 | Wind gusts were estimated to be between 60 and 65 MPH, downing tree limbs at least 2 inches in diameter. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Johnson Res | $250,000 | Ping pong to tennis ball size hail was reported at the northwest corner of Johnson Lake. |
| April 1975 | Tornado (F1) | not stated | $250,000 | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Hail | Elwood | $200,000 | Quarter to golf ball size hail and 70 mph winds caused a swath of crop damage. || |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Smithfield | $100,000 | Report of a flipped irrigation pivot relayed from social media via broadcast media. |
| July 2014 | Hail | Elwood | $100,000 | Quarter size hail accompanied wind gusts of 60 MPH. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elwood | $100,000 | Wind gusts estimated at 60 MPH accompanied quarter size hail. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elwood | $100,000 | Winds estimated to at least 65 MPH knocked branches out of trees, overturned an irrigation pivot and damaged an outbuilding. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Smithfield | $100,000 | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Flash Flood | Johnson Res | $100,000 | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Elwood | $100,000 | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Elwood | $100,000 | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Smithfield | $100,000 | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Elwood | $100,000 | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elwood | $100,000 | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Johnson Res | $100,000 | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Elwood | $75,000 | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Tornado (F1) | Elwood | $75,000 | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elwood | $60,000 | no account filed |
| May 2023 | Hail | Smithfield | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Elwood | $50,000 | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elwood | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Johnson Res | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elwood | $50,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Elwood | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Elwood | $40,000 | Quarter to ping pong ball size hail was reported in the area, including quarter size hail by the NWS Cooperative Observer located eight miles south of Elwood. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elwood | $35,000 | Wind gusts estimated at 60 MPH with damage to several cattle sheds was reported. |
| May 2000 | Hail | Elwood | $30,000 | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Johnson Res | $25,000 | Wind gusts estimated to be near 70 MPH resulted in part of a roof being peeled off a cabin at a trailer court on the east side of the lake. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elwood | $25,000 | A wind gust of 70 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located three miles south-southeast of Johnson Lake. In this same area, a metal outbuilding was destroyed two miles north of Elwood. |
| July 2019 | Flash Flood | Smithfield | $25,000 | Radar estimates showed rainfall amounts of 3 to 6 inches fell over the warned area in a short amount of time, with up to 5 inches measured in Bertrand. Emergency management reported that flash flooding occurred in Bertrand and the surrounding areas, including the headwaters area of the Turkey Creek north of Edison, which resulted in a rise above minor flood stage during the daytime hours on the 5th. |
| August 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elwood | $25,000 | Wind gusts were estimated to be near 65 MPH. |
| May 2008 | Flash Flood | Johnson Res | $25,000 | Thunderstorms dropped 3 to 4 inches in Northern Gosper County. Several rural roads were flooded by this heavy rain. |
| May 2008 | Flash Flood | Johnson Res | $25,000 | Thunderstorms rolled across the same area of northern Gosper County during the evening hours and dumped several inches of rain. This caused many roads and small creeks to quickly flood. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Elwood | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 2023 | Hail | Elwood | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 2023 | Hail | Smithfield | $25,000 | no account filed |
| August 2017 | Hail | Johnson Res | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elwood | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Johnson Res | $25,000 | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Elwood | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Elwood | $25,000 | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elwood | $25,000 | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elwood | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 1991 | Tornado (F0) | not stated | $25,000 | no account filed |
| September 1985 | Tornado (F1) | not stated | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Flood | Various Locations | $23,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Johnson Res | $20,000 | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Elwood | $20,000 | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Elwood | $15,000 | Quarter size hail occurred along with estimated wind gusts of 60 to 70 mph on Highway 283 near mile marker 30. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elwood | $15,000 | Wind gusts of 60 to 70 mph occurred along with quarter size hail on Highway 283 near mile marker 30. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Elwood | $15,000 | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Johnson Res | $15,000 | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Johnson Res | $15,000 | no account filed |
Every populated place in the county
3Named settlements recorded in the Geographic Names Information System, each with the topographic sheets covering it. Villages, hamlets and abandoned places alike. Each is shown with the nearest named watercourse or landform and the survey quadrangle it falls on.
Provenance
- Topographic sheets. USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection, county index, measured from the bulk metadata.
- Fire insurance maps. Library of Congress Sanborn collection, faceted to this county.
- Photographs. Each place queried individually against the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs search.
- 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.