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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.

Anoka within Boyd County

Population over time

4 figures

Anoka 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.

YearPeople Change
199010
2000100 (0%)
20106-4 (-40%)
202010+4 (+67%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

4 since 2006

Regional 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 burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
1 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
14 May 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
13 April 2010Debris and open burning10 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
10 March 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boyd County

Storms near this place

9 since 2008

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2008Flash FloodAnoka$50,000Heavy 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 2009HailAnoka$10,000The hail cracked windshields and dented bodies on vehicles.
August 2014HailAnoka$1,000no account filed
August 2014HailAnoka-no account filed
August 2014HailAnoka-no account filed
August 2011HailAnoka-no account filed
March 2011HailAnoka-no account filed
June 2010HailAnoka-no account filed
June 2008HailAnoka-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boyd 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
Butte2.6 miles9
Baker (historical)6.0 miles9
Spencer8.5 miles10
Gross13.7 miles9
Rosedale (historical)13.7 miles9
Naper14.1 miles10
Bristow14.9 miles11
Lynch20.9 miles11

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 AnokaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q741907The 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.