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Alvo, Nebraska

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Greenwood precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68304. The Survey maps it on the Eagle quadrangle. 115 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,339 feet above sea level.

Alvo within Cass County

On record in Alvo

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

Alvo fell from 132 to 115 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
2010132
2020115-17 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

14 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Alvo between 2003 and 2020, burning about 151 acres in total. 1 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 burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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
16 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
4 May 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
16 May 2017Natural1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
12 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
21 April 2020Debris and open burning40 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
17 April 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
11 April 2017Debris and open burning40 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
3 March 2018Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Storms near this place

17 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alvo in 17 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 7 tornado, 6 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
March 2009Tornado (EF1)Alvo$1,000,000This is the fifth and last of 5 cyclic tornadoes that a low-topped supercell thunderstorm produced at it tracked southeast through east of the Lincoln area. This tornado touched down in Alvo and tracked a little over 10 miles north northeast before lifting just west of South Bend. The tornado knocked down power poles and transmission lines, snapped trees and damaged houses and destroyed farm out buildings along its path. One of the downed power lines fell on a car trapping its occupant for several hours. Several cars were crushed by fallen trees in the Alvo area. From the 3 confirmed tornadoes that hit the county, plus any associated wind damage, emergency management estimated that 30 homes had minor damage with 4 sustaining major damage and 60 to 80 farm outbuildings were damaged with the total damage approaching $1 million.
September 2010Flash FloodAlvo$10,000Rainfall of 3 to 5 inches fell across the upper reaches of the Weeping Water Creek basin including 4.47 inches in Weeping Water. The heavy rain caused flash flooding along Weeping Water Creek and some of its tributaries from around Alvo to downstream of Weeping Water. In Weeping Water, water crossed a few roads and flooded into the city park. Numerous county roads between Alvo and Weeping Water were flooded.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindAlvo-Personal weather station measured wind gust of 71 mph.
April 2025Tornado (EF0)Alvo-At approximately 6:14 PM CST on Thursday April 17, video evidence supports the development of a tornado near 250th St and Alvo Road. Little to no damage was reported, even to trees, as it passed through multiple wooded areas. The tornado appeared to have a maximum width of less than 50 yards with a length of 0.84 miles. The maximum wind speed during this segment of its track was estimated at 60 mph, 0 fatalities and 0 injuries.
April 2025Tornado (EFU)Alvo-At approximately 6:20 PM CST on Thursday, April 17, video evidence supports the development of a tornado near 286th St and McKelvie Road that lasted for approximately 2 minutes. No damage was reported as it passed through open fields, supporting an EF-U rating.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindAlvo-A spotter estimated thunderstorm wind gusts reached 60 mph.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindAlvo-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph overturned a machine shed.
June 2004Tornado (F0)Alvo-A multiple vortex tornado did some tree damage west of Alvo. It was a mile or two away from another tornado that touched down briefly to the northeast.
June 2004Tornado (F0)Alvo-A brief tornado touched down and overturned at trailer near Alvo. This brief touchdown was a mile or two away from another weak tornado that was on the ground for a mile or so.
April 1999Tornado (F0)Alvo-Very brief touchdown.
May 1995Tornado (F0)Alvo-Cass County Emergency Services had 40 to 50 spotters throughout the county with several reports of brief tornado touchdowns, but no damage.
August 2011HailAlvo-no account filed
April 2010HailAlvo-no account filed
March 2007HailAlvo-no account filed
March 2006HailAlvo-no account filed
July 2006HailAlvo-no account filed
October 2002HailAlvo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cass 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
Eagle4.4 miles13
Elmwood5.4 miles13
Murdock6.8 miles14
Greenwood6.9 miles14
Wabash7.1 miles14
South Bend11.7 miles17
Manley12.2 miles13
Weeping Water13.1 miles13

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 AlvoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1290725The 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 826972. 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.