Alliance, Nebraska
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Eleven precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69301. The Survey maps it on the Alliance East quadrangle. 8,151 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,967 feet above sea level.
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On record in Alliance
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 3 records
Alliance Commercial Historic Districtlisted 2007
Box Butte County Courthouselisted 1990
City of Alliance Central Park Fountainlisted 1990
Population over time
2 figuresAlliance fell from 8,491 to 8,151 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 | 8,491 | |
| 2020 | 8,151 | -340 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 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.
- 1947 USGS Alliance quadrangle1:24000
- 1947 USGS Alliance East quadrangle1:24000
- 1948 USGS Alliance quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Alliance quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Alliance quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Alliance quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Alliance quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
75 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Alliance between 2007 and 2020, burning about 188 acres in total. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 |
| Fireworks | 20 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 26 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 23 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 6 August 2012 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 6 August 2008 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 5 August 2012 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 3 August 2014 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 3 August 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this place
60 of 189 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alliance in 189 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 136 hail, 35 thunderstorm wind, 6 tornado, 4 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1996 | Hail | Alliance | $200,000 | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alliance | $50,000 | Farm received strong to severe winds for an hour causing structural damage. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alliance | $50,000 | Roofs torn off 1 mobile home and 1 apartment complex; at least 2 cars damaged by fallen limbs; power lines downed; 1 camper flipped; trees uprooted; 3' diameter maple tree thrown onto roof of house; 6' wooden fence downed. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alliance | $40,000 | Power poles down in western part of town. General Manager of PREMA said the storm took out roughly 40 electrical poles around the area. The downed poles caused roughly 1,000 PREMA electrical services to be stopped across the county. |
| August 2004 | Hail | Alliance | $40,000 | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Alliance | $30,000 | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Alliance | $25,000 | 1.75 inch hail fell over the southwest side of Alliance, NE. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alliance | $20,000 | A thunderstorm produced a microburst in Alliance which uprooted trees at a residence home and the owners vehicle was damaged by falling trees. Damage to power poles also occurred in Alliance. |
| March 1998 | Lightning | Alliance | $12,000 | A bolt of lightning hit a tree around which a porch of a house was built. All of the windows in the porch were shattered. The bolt also damaged the adjoining kitchen, bathroom and an antique collection. The homeowners stated that the biggest loss was all of thier antiques. |
| August 2004 | Hail | Alliance | $10,000 | 2 inch diamter hail broke windows from 3 to 7 miles northeast of Alliance, Ne. |
| June 1997 | Hail | Alliance | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Lightning | Alliance | $5,000 | Lightning caused two power outages and transformer failures in Alliance. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alliance | $5,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds up to 62 mph knocked down 2 power poles 8 miles south-southwest of Alliance. The poles were broke off at ground level and caused a brief power outage for customers in the immediate area. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alliance | $4,000 | Tin blown off roof of garage. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alliance | $4,000 | Estimated wind gusts around 60 mph. Unconfirmed tornado uprooted trees andremoved a well-house roof. Storage shed also destroyed. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alliance | $3,000 | A 100 year old cottonwood tree fell in Central Park. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alliance | $1,100 | Shingles blown off of house and 6 to 8 inch tree limbs down. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Alliance | - | Mainly dime to nickel size hail with a few quarters reported northeast of Alliance Nebraska. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Alliance | - | A trained weather spotter reported nickel sized hail 5 miles W of Alliance. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alliance | - | An 81 MPH wind gust was measured at the Alliance Airport ASOS. |
| July 2022 | Flash Flood | Alliance | - | Flash flooding was observed in the city of Alliance. Law enforcement reported that a vehicle was washed off the road. The occupants were able to safely exit the vehicle. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alliance | - | Trained spotter reported estimated winds. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alliance | - | Tin shed (8-by-10 foot) blown across yard by strong winds. Pea sized hail reported with accumulations around 6 inches. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alliance | - | Davis station measured wind gust. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alliance | - | Multiple 3 to 4 inch diameter trees uprooted in town. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alliance | - | Thunderstorm winds measured by a KNEB automated weather station. |
| August 2018 | Hail | Alliance | - | Quarter size hail was observed at Alliance. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alliance | - | An estimated wind gust of 60 mph was observed west of Alliance. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Alliance | - | Measured hail reported at the intersection of West 10th Street and Buffalo Avenue in Alliance. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alliance | - | Widespread power outages were reported due to knocked over powerlines in addition to uprooted trees. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Alliance | - | Tennis ball to baseball size hail was reported at Alliance. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Alliance | - | Quarter size hail was reported on Kansas Street in southwest Alliance. |
| August 2017 | Hail | Alliance | - | Golf ball size hail was observed northeast of Alliance. |
| August 2017 | Hail | Alliance | - | Golf ball size hail was observed northwest of Alliance. |
| August 2017 | Hail | Alliance | - | Half dollar size hail covered Highway 385 south of Alliance. |
| July 2017 | Hail | Alliance | - | Golf ball size hail was observed at Alliance. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alliance | - | Estimated 80 mph wind gusts were observed at Alliance. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alliance | - | Estimated wind gusts of 70 mph were reported 10 miles north of Alliance. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alliance | - | Estimated wind gusts of 60 mph were reported northwest of Alliance. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alliance | - | Estimated wind gusts of 60 mph were reported at Alliance. |
| June 2016 | Hail | Alliance | - | Nickel to quarter size hail was reported 15 miles north of Alliance. |
| June 2016 | Hail | Alliance | - | Quarter size hail was reported near the Alliance Airport. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Alliance | - | Quarter size hail was reported two miles west of Alliance. |
| October 2016 | Hail | Alliance | - | Quarter size hail was reported two miles north of Alliance. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alliance | - | Wind gusts were estimated at 60 to 65 mph 15 miles northwest of the Alliance Airport. Utility lines were down and power was out for several hours. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Alliance | - | Golf ball size hail was observed seven miles northeast of Alliance. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Alliance | - | Quarter to golf ball size hail was reported at Alliance. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Alliance | - | Golf ball size hail was reported three miles northeast of Alliance. Garage and basement windows were broken. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Alliance | - | Golf ball size hail was observed five miles north-northeast of Alliance. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Alliance | - | Softball size hail was observed six miles northeast of Alliance. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Alliance | - | Pea to golf ball size hail was reported four miles north of Alliance. |
| May 2015 | Hail | Alliance | - | Dime to quarter size hail was observed in Alliance. |
| July 2015 | Hail | Alliance | - | Quarter size hail was observed ten miles southeast of Alliance. |
| May 2014 | Funnel Cloud | Alliance | - | A funnel cloud was sighted east of Kilpatrick Lake. |
| May 2014 | Funnel Cloud | Alliance | - | Spotter observed a rotating wall cloud with a funnel rising and lowering. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Alliance | - | Quarter size hail was reported west of Alliance. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Alliance | - | Ping pong ball size hail was observed north of Alliance. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Alliance | - | Quarter size hail was reported northeast of Alliance. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Alliance | - | Quarter size hail was observed west of Alliance. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Alliance | - | Quarter size hail was observed in Alliance. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Letan | 7.0 miles | 11 | |
| Berea | 9.6 miles | 9 | |
| Hemingford | 18.5 miles | 9 | |
| Nonpareil | 24.8 miles | 10 |
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 Alliance | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q964529 | 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 834978. 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.






