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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.

Alexandria within Thayer County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Alexandria 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.

YearPeople Change
2010177
2020148-29 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

17 since 2009

Regional 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 burning15
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
11 June 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
11 June 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
19 May 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 April 2018Debris and open burning80 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
2 April 2011Debris and open burning20 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
2 April 2011Debris and open burning5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
16 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
11 April 2018Debris and open burning60 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Thayer County

Storms near this place

31 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2012Tornado (EF0)Alexandria$350,000This 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 2007Flash FloodAlexandria$200,000no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindAlexandria$25,000Wind 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 2016Thunderstorm WindAlexandria$25,000Part of a machine shed and some trees were damaged at a farmstead near mile marker 113 on Highway 4, east-southeast of Bruning.
June 2008Flash FloodAlexandria$20,000Highway 53 near Alexandria was under water due to heavy rain and runoff.
June 2008HailAlexandria$10,000no account filed
May 2007HailAlexandria$10,000no account filed
September 2006Thunderstorm WindAlexandria$10,000no account filed
June 2001HailAlexandria$10,000no account filed
May 2009HailAlexandria$5,000Penny to quarter size hail reported.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindAlexandria$4,000Wind gusts estimated to be near 70 MPH resulted in a couple of large trees being blown over in Alexandria.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindAlexandria-A wind gust of 61 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located seven miles southeast of Ohiowa.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindAlexandria-A wind gust of 59 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located seven miles north of Alexandria.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindAlexandria-A wind gust of 63 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located five miles north-northwest of Alexandria.
May 2015Heavy RainAlexandria-A 24 hour storm total rainfall amount of 8.30 inches was reported.
June 2015Heavy RainAlexandria-Total 24-hour rainfall of 3.13...most of which fell during the pre-dawn hours of the 4th.
May 2011Heavy RainAlexandria-Storm total rainfall of 4 inches was reported by a NeRAIN observer.
May 2011Heavy RainAlexandria-Storm total rainfall of 3.60 inches was reported by a NeRAIN observer.
May 2011Heavy RainAlexandria-Storm total rainfall of 4 inches was reported by a NeRAIN observer.
May 1994HailAlexandria-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 1994Thunderstorm WindAlexandria-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 2018HailAlexandria-no account filed
June 2015HailAlexandria-no account filed
September 2015HailAlexandria-no account filed
September 2010HailAlexandria-no account filed
August 2010HailAlexandria-no account filed
August 2010HailAlexandria-no account filed
June 2010HailAlexandria-no account filed
July 2008HailAlexandria-no account filed
August 2007Heavy RainAlexandria-no account filed
May 1999HailAlexandria-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Thayer 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
Gilead6.9 miles11
Belvidere8.9 miles12
Bruning11.3 miles12
Hebron11.8 miles13
Williams (historical)13.1 miles11
Carleton15.8 miles12
Stoddard (historical)16.1 miles13
Hubbell17.3 miles11

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 AlexandriaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2472495The 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.