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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.

Angora within Morrill County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

3 since 2007

Regional 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 burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
24 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
21 May 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
28 March 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morrill County

Storms near this place

34 since 1999

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2003Tornado (F1)Angora$100,000Tornado destroyed mobile home, damaged a wind mill and damaged an irrigation center pivot. Power lines also blown down along track.
May 2003HailAngora$10,000no account filed
June 2010Flash FloodAngora$5,000Law enforcement reported U.S. Highway 385 between Angora Junction and Bridgeport closed due to flooding.
May 2024HailAngora-Received report from mPING.
May 2024HailAngora-Received report via Facebook.
July 2023HailAngora-Public report of 1.75 inch hail 7 miles south of Angora.
August 2021HailAngora-Spotter reported 2 inch sized hail 15 miles north northeast of Bayard.
August 2021HailAngora-Tennis ball sized hail reported by spotter 8 miles north-northeast of Moomaws Corner.
August 2018HailAngora-Tennis ball size hail was observed northeast of Angora.
August 2018HailAngora-Hail slightly larger than baseballs was observed on US Highway 385 near mile post 95.
July 2016HailAngora-Golf ball size hail covered the ground at Angora.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindAngora-Wind gusts of 60 mph were estimated east of Angora.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindAngora-Wind gusts were estimated from 50 to 60 mph 10 miles south of Kilpatrick Lake.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindAngora-Thunderstorm winds measured at 60 mph with estimated gusts by public up to 80 mph damaged trees.
May 2023HailAngora-no account filed
April 2008HailAngora-no account filed
September 2008HailAngora-no account filed
June 2006HailAngora-no account filed
May 2005HailAngora-no account filed
June 2005HailAngora-no account filed
July 2005HailAngora-no account filed
July 2005HailAngora-no account filed
June 2004HailAngora-no account filed
May 2003HailAngora-no account filed
May 2003HailAngora-no account filed
May 2003HailAngora-no account filed
May 2003HailAngora-no account filed
May 2003HailAngora-no account filed
May 2003HailAngora-no account filed
July 2003HailAngora-no account filed
July 2003HailAngora-no account filed
August 2002HailAngora-no account filed
September 2001HailAngora-no account filed
June 1999HailAngora-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morrill 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
Vance5.2 miles13
Perrin7.0 miles13
Bonner8.2 miles13
Lynn8.6 miles16
Piper9.5 miles13
DeGraw9.6 miles13
Kemp9.6 miles14
Atkins10.0 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 AngoraAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4763846The 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.