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.
Population over time
2 figuresAllen 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 377 | |
| 2020 | 355 | -22 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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 Sioux City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Allen quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Sioux City South quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
11 since 2005Regional 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 burning | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 June 2016 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 2 June 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 19 May 2008 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 12 May 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 4 April 2008 | Debris and open burning | 42 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 31 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 29 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 28 March 2005 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 35 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
25 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2022 | Flash Flood | Allen | $25,000 | A gravel road was completely washed out near the intersection of 584th Avenue and 870 Road. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Allen | - | Multiple tree limbs were downed, with several on powerlines. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Allen | - | 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 2013 | Tornado (EF0) | Allen | - | A brief tornado, observed on video, cause no reported damage. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Allen | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down several branches. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Allen | - | Thunderstorm winds blew away rows of hay, and caused minor tree damage. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Allen | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several trees blown down. |
| June 2003 | Flash Flood | Allen | - | Heavy rain caused severe flooding of streets and other low areas, stranding several vehicles. |
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Allen | - | Thunderstorm winds destroyed a farm building and damaged a silo. |
| October 2020 | Hail | Allen | - | no account filed |
| August 2017 | Flash Flood | Allen | - | no account filed |
| August 2014 | Hail | Allen | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Allen | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Allen | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Allen | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Allen | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Allen | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Allen | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Allen | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Allen | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Allen | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Allen | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Allen | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Allen | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Allen | - | 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.
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 Allen | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2580094 | 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 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.




