Arbor, Nebraska

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1986. It stands in North Bluff precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68336. The Survey maps it on the Davey quadrangle.

Arbor within Lancaster County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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.

1897 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1955 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Davey quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

22 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Arbor between 2007 and 2019, burning about 310 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	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Fireworks	2
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
12 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
4 July 2012	Fireworks	2.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
4 July 2012	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
4 July 2012	Fireworks	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
24 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
18 July 2012	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
17 July 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
10 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lancaster County

Storms near this place

7 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arbor in 7 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Arbor	-	The office received a public report of damage to a warehouse building roof and sign.
June 2022	Hail	Arbor	-	Public reported 2-inch hail.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Arbor	-	Public weather station measured a 52 kt wind gust.
September 2018	Flash Flood	Arbor	-	Water had inundated the area. Water was 3 to 4 feet deep which covered a 75 to 100 foot section of road. The water was not flowing much.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Arbor	-	Several semi trucks were tipped over on Interstate 80 near the 27th Street exit.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Arbor	-	Strong winds from thunderstorms that swept rapidly through the Lincoln area Sunday evening May 25th caused power outages, downed trees and sparked electrical fires. Thunderstorm winds were measured at 63 mph by Asos at the Lincoln airport with similar reports of winds of that speed estimated by spotters near 60th and Pioneers, 20th and K, near Antelope Park and 84th and Old Cheney Road. There were numerous reports of large tree limbs down and many large trees were pushed over or uprooted across town. The damage extended from Lincoln to a few miles south of town where some building damage was noted near Martell. At least 6,000 LES customers lost power. According to the Lincoln Journal-Star, some people claimed that this was one of the worst wind storms in terms of tree damage in years.
June 2008	Hail	Arbor	-	Hail up to golf ball size was reported near North 14th and Davey Rd and Northwest 40th and Waverly Rd just north of Lincoln. Other reports of golf ball size were also received in the Lincoln vicinity, but mainly across the north part of town.

Every storm recorded in Lancaster 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
Mark IV Estates	2.9 miles	16
Havelock	3.7 miles	16
Belmont	3.8 miles	16
University Place	3.9 miles	16
Countryside Estates	4.7 miles	16
Gaslight Village	4.7 miles	16
Woodlawn Estates	4.7 miles	16
Bethany	4.8 miles	16

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 Arbor	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17985577	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 835235. 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.