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Agnew, Nebraska

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1982. It stands in West Oak precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68428. The Survey maps it on the Valparaiso quadrangle. 30 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 386 feet above sea level.

Agnew within Lancaster County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

68 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Agnew between 2007 and 2019, burning about 1,309 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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 burning33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Arson/incendiarism11
Equipment and vehicle use9
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1
Fireworks1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
4 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
1 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
1 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use15 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
4 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
3 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lancaster County

Storms near this place

17 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Agnew in 17 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 8 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flood. 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
June 2014FloodAgnew$50,000Heavy rainfall lead to 4 to 6 inches of flooding over Davey Road.
April 2025HailAgnew-Public report of hail estimated up to 2 in diameter.
April 2025HailAgnew-Trained spotter report of hail measured up to 2 in diameter.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindAgnew-A trained spotter estimated winds of 60 to 64 mph on the northwest side of Branched Oak.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindAgnew-A 60 miles per hour wind gust was measured by a personal weather station.
April 2023HailAgnew-Trained spotter reported 1.25-inch hail.
April 2022HailAgnew-CoCoRaHS observer reported 1.25 inch hail.
August 2021Flash FloodAgnew-Public reported swift flowing water through fields.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindAgnew-Public reported a 55 kt wind.
May 2019Heavy RainAgnew-Measured 2.46 inches of rain near Branched Oak Lake.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindAgnew-Numerous large limbs and trees were blown down.
June 2001Tornado (F0)Agnew-This tornado was spawned by the same supercell that produced the f4 tornado near Seward. The tornado touched down briefly in an open field west of Agnew near the intersection of NW 140th and Ashland Road and was reported by law enforcement.
May 2019HailAgnew-no account filed
July 2015Thunderstorm WindAgnew-no account filed
May 2011HailAgnew-no account filed
March 2011HailAgnew-no account filed
April 2001HailAgnew-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lancaster 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
Raymond4.5 miles15
Malcolm8.0 miles15
Davey8.1 miles15
Woodlawn9.6 miles15
Huskerville10.9 miles16
Arbor11.2 miles15
Mark IV Estates12.9 miles16
West Lincoln13.1 miles16

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 AgnewAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17985431The 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 826918. 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.

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.