Amboy, Nebraska

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in District 1. It lies in ZIP code area 68970. It stands on Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Amboy quadrangle.

Amboy within Webster County

On record in Amboy

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Starke Round Barnlisted 1972 · 0.1 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1898 USGS Superior quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Grand Island quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Grand Island quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Grand Island quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Amboy quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Red Cloud quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

12 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Amboy between 2003 and 2020, burning about 72 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 burning	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Natural	1
Smoking	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
1 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
4 August 2019	Natural	2.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
28 August 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
30 July 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
12 July 2007	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
25 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
27 April 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
3 March 2008	Smoking	17 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Webster County

Storms near this place

4 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Amboy in 4 storm reports between 2007 and 2024: 2 tornado, 1 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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
November 2016	Tornado (EF1)	Amboy	$150,000	This tornado uprooted trees, destroyed an outbuilding, upset 2 irrigation pivots and caused other minor damage along its path. The maximum wind speed was estimated to be 95 MPH.
May 2024	Tornado (EF0)	Amboy	$20,000	This tornado formed within a line of thunderstorms moving across Webster County. Damage along its seven mile path included minor tree damage at a few locations, an overturned camper, a broken window, and damage to older outbuildings. The tornado was likely embedded in heavy rain and difficult to visually distinguish from the low clouds, rain, and straight-line winds associated with the line of storms. It lifted after doing some minor tree damage along Highway 78 near S Road. The estimated peak wind was 75 MPH.
September 2018	Heavy Rain	Amboy	-	A multi-day rainfall total of 5.56 was reported 4 miles east of Red Cloud.
May 2007	Hail	Amboy	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Webster 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Lester Junction	0.4 miles	11
Pawnee Village	2.8 miles	11
Red Cloud	4.3 miles	15
Cowles	5.6 miles	11
Guide Rock	5.8 miles	11
Inavale	11.2 miles	15
Rosemont	14.1 miles	11
Blue Hill	16.7 miles	11

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 Amboy	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17985518	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 835229. 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.