Anoka, Nebraska
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Butte Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68722. It stands on Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Butte quadrangle. 10 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,647 feet above sea level.
Population over time
4 figuresAnoka grew from 10 to 10 between 1990 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 10 | |
| 2000 | 10 | 0 (0%) |
| 2010 | 6 | -4 (-40%) |
| 2020 | 10 | +4 (+67%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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.
- 1955 USGS O'Neill quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS O'Neill quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Butte quadrangle1:24000
- 1969 USGS O'Neill quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Atkinson quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS O'Neill quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
4 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Anoka between 2006 and 2015, burning about 15 acres 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 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 June 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 14 May 2010 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 13 April 2010 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 10 March 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Anoka in 9 storm reports between 2008 and 2014: 8 hail, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | Anoka | $50,000 | Heavy rain from thunderstorms caused flash flooding along Ponca Creek in Boyd County. Up to 4 inches of rain fell with approximately 3 inches of it falling in 30 minutes. The water runoff washed over roadways near Spencer and inundated the commercial area of Bristow. Several secondary roads were completely or partially washed away. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Anoka | $10,000 | The hail cracked windshields and dented bodies on vehicles. |
| August 2014 | Hail | Anoka | $1,000 | no account filed |
| August 2014 | Hail | Anoka | - | no account filed |
| August 2014 | Hail | Anoka | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Hail | Anoka | - | no account filed |
| March 2011 | Hail | Anoka | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Anoka | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Anoka | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Butte | 2.6 miles | 9 | |
| Baker (historical) | 6.0 miles | 9 | |
| Spencer | 8.5 miles | 10 | |
| Gross | 13.7 miles | 9 | |
| Rosedale (historical) | 13.7 miles | 9 | |
| Naper | 14.1 miles | 10 | |
| Bristow | 14.9 miles | 11 | |
| Lynch | 20.9 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 Anoka | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q741907 | 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 827002. 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.





