Angora, Nebraska
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Haynes precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69331. The Survey maps it on the Angora SE quadrangle. It stands 4,265 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 13 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.
- 1898 USGS Camp Clarke quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Scottsbluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Scottsbluff quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Angora quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Scottsbluff quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Angora between 2007 and 2015, burning about 1 acre 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 | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 July 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 21 May 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 28 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
34 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Angora in 34 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 29 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2003 | Tornado (F1) | Angora | $100,000 | Tornado destroyed mobile home, damaged a wind mill and damaged an irrigation center pivot. Power lines also blown down along track. |
| May 2003 | Hail | Angora | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Flash Flood | Angora | $5,000 | Law enforcement reported U.S. Highway 385 between Angora Junction and Bridgeport closed due to flooding. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Angora | - | Received report from mPING. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Angora | - | Received report via Facebook. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Angora | - | Public report of 1.75 inch hail 7 miles south of Angora. |
| August 2021 | Hail | Angora | - | Spotter reported 2 inch sized hail 15 miles north northeast of Bayard. |
| August 2021 | Hail | Angora | - | Tennis ball sized hail reported by spotter 8 miles north-northeast of Moomaws Corner. |
| August 2018 | Hail | Angora | - | Tennis ball size hail was observed northeast of Angora. |
| August 2018 | Hail | Angora | - | Hail slightly larger than baseballs was observed on US Highway 385 near mile post 95. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Angora | - | Golf ball size hail covered the ground at Angora. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Angora | - | Wind gusts of 60 mph were estimated east of Angora. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Angora | - | Wind gusts were estimated from 50 to 60 mph 10 miles south of Kilpatrick Lake. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Angora | - | Thunderstorm winds measured at 60 mph with estimated gusts by public up to 80 mph damaged trees. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Angora | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Angora | - | no account filed |
| September 2008 | Hail | Angora | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Angora | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Angora | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Angora | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Angora | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Angora | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Angora | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Angora | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Angora | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Angora | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Angora | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Angora | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Angora | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Angora | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Angora | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Angora | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Angora | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Angora | - | 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 Angora | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4763846 | 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 826998. 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.




