Alexandria, Nebraska
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Alexandria precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68303. The Survey maps it on the Alexandria quadrangle. 148 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,414 feet above sea level.
On record in Alexandria
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Richard E. Dill Houselisted 1973
Population over time
2 figuresAlexandria fell from 177 to 148 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 | 177 | |
| 2020 | 148 | -29 (-16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 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.
- 1955 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Alexandria quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Fairbury quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
17 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Alexandria between 2009 and 2018, burning about 783 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 15 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 June 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 11 June 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 19 May 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 6 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 80 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 2 April 2011 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 2 April 2011 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 16 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 11 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 60 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
31 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alexandria in 31 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 14 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 6 heavy rain, 2 flash 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2012 | Tornado (EF0) | Alexandria | $350,000 | This tornado touched down approximately 1.5 miles north of Alexandria and lifted approximately 2 miles north of Alexandria. Along its path, a home sustained minor siding and window damage, a grain bin was destroyed, small outbuildings lost siding, trees and power lines were damaged, and 2 center irrigation pivots were overturned. The maximum wind speed was estimated at 75 mph. |
| August 2007 | Flash Flood | Alexandria | $200,000 | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexandria | $25,000 | Wind gusts were estimated to be near 70 MPH. Emergency management reported that a three foot diameter and 50 foot long tree limb and a 1.5 to 2 foot diameter tree limb were blown down and blocking Main Street in the community of Alexandria. |
| December 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexandria | $25,000 | Part of a machine shed and some trees were damaged at a farmstead near mile marker 113 on Highway 4, east-southeast of Bruning. |
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | Alexandria | $20,000 | Highway 53 near Alexandria was under water due to heavy rain and runoff. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Alexandria | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Alexandria | $10,000 | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexandria | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Alexandria | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Alexandria | $5,000 | Penny to quarter size hail reported. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexandria | $4,000 | Wind gusts estimated to be near 70 MPH resulted in a couple of large trees being blown over in Alexandria. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexandria | - | A wind gust of 61 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located seven miles southeast of Ohiowa. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexandria | - | A wind gust of 59 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located seven miles north of Alexandria. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexandria | - | A wind gust of 63 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located five miles north-northwest of Alexandria. |
| May 2015 | Heavy Rain | Alexandria | - | A 24 hour storm total rainfall amount of 8.30 inches was reported. |
| June 2015 | Heavy Rain | Alexandria | - | Total 24-hour rainfall of 3.13...most of which fell during the pre-dawn hours of the 4th. |
| May 2011 | Heavy Rain | Alexandria | - | Storm total rainfall of 4 inches was reported by a NeRAIN observer. |
| May 2011 | Heavy Rain | Alexandria | - | Storm total rainfall of 3.60 inches was reported by a NeRAIN observer. |
| May 2011 | Heavy Rain | Alexandria | - | Storm total rainfall of 4 inches was reported by a NeRAIN observer. |
| May 1994 | Hail | Alexandria | - | Thunderstorm winds blew over six irrigation towers, damaged an outbuilding and the siding on a farmhouse. Hail broke windows in the house and dented a car. |
| May 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexandria | - | Thunderstorm winds blew over six irrigation towers, damaged an outbuilding and the siding on a farmhouse. Hail broke windows in the house and dented a car. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Alexandria | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Alexandria | - | no account filed |
| September 2015 | Hail | Alexandria | - | no account filed |
| September 2010 | Hail | Alexandria | - | no account filed |
| August 2010 | Hail | Alexandria | - | no account filed |
| August 2010 | Hail | Alexandria | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Alexandria | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Alexandria | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Heavy Rain | Alexandria | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Alexandria | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gilead | 6.9 miles | 11 | |
| Belvidere | 8.9 miles | 12 | |
| Bruning | 11.3 miles | 12 | |
| Hebron | 11.8 miles | 13 | |
| Williams (historical) | 13.1 miles | 11 | |
| Carleton | 15.8 miles | 12 | |
| Stoddard (historical) | 16.1 miles | 13 | |
| Hubbell | 17.3 miles | 11 |
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 Alexandria | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2472495 | 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 826939. 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.




