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Allen, Nebraska

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Springbank Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68710. The Survey maps it on the Allen quadrangle. 355 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,529 feet above sea level.

Allen within Dixon County

Population over time

2 figures

Allen fell from 377 to 355 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
2010377
2020355-22 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

11 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Allen between 2005 and 2018, burning about 136 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
28 June 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
2 June 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
19 May 2008Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
12 May 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
4 April 2008Debris and open burning42 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
31 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
29 March 2015Debris and open burning20 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
28 March 2005Power generation/transmission/distribution35 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dixon County

Storms near this place

25 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Allen in 25 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 11 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 tornado. 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
July 2022Flash FloodAllen$25,000A gravel road was completely washed out near the intersection of 584th Avenue and 870 Road.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindAllen-Multiple tree limbs were downed, with several on powerlines.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindAllen-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including a large cottonwood tree uprooted and blown onto a shed. Other tree damage included large limbs blown down.
October 2013Tornado (EF0)Allen-A brief tornado, observed on video, cause no reported damage.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindAllen-Thunderstorm winds blew down several branches.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindAllen-Thunderstorm winds blew away rows of hay, and caused minor tree damage.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindAllen-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several trees blown down.
June 2003Flash FloodAllen-Heavy rain caused severe flooding of streets and other low areas, stranding several vehicles.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindAllen-Thunderstorm winds destroyed a farm building and damaged a silo.
October 2020HailAllen-no account filed
August 2017Flash FloodAllen-no account filed
August 2014HailAllen-no account filed
July 2007HailAllen-no account filed
April 2004HailAllen-no account filed
April 2004HailAllen-no account filed
May 2004HailAllen-no account filed
July 2004HailAllen-no account filed
June 2003HailAllen-no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindAllen-no account filed
April 2001HailAllen-no account filed
June 2001HailAllen-no account filed
June 2000HailAllen-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindAllen-no account filed
May 1999Tornado (F0)Allen-no account filed
May 1999Thunderstorm WindAllen-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dixon 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
Martinsburg6.4 miles18
Waterbury6.5 miles9
Concord7.9 miles9
Dixon8.1 miles9
Wakefield10.2 miles9
Emerson11.4 miles10
Ponca12.5 miles20
Newcastle16.3 miles19

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 AllenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2580094The 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 826959. 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.