Archer, Nebraska
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Midland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68816. It stands on Moores Creek. The Survey maps it on the Archer quadrangle. 68 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,742 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresArcher fell from 81 to 68 between 2010 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 81 | |
| 2020 | 68 | -13 (-16%) |
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.
- 1899 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Broken Bow quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1956 USGS Broken Bow quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Archer quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Archer between 2008 and 2011, burning about 10 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 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 4 July 2008 | Fireworks | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 12 March 2011 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 1 March 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
12 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Archer in 12 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 6 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Archer | $1,000,000 | Wind gusts estimated to be near 75 MPH resulted in tree and crop damage in the area, as well as flipped irrigation pivots. Power outages were reported in the area, and trees were reported down in Clarks. A wind gust of 70 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located four miles west-southwest of Clarks, and a wind gust of 60 MPH was measured by a mesonet station four miles northeast of Clarks. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Archer | $250,000 | Wind gusts were estimated to be near 80 MPH along this path. Several irrigation pivots were overturned and trees were damaged, including at least one that was uprooted. At one farmstead, a barn and nearby vehicle sustained minor damage. |
| July 2003 | Hail | Archer | $75,000 | no account filed |
| October 2001 | Hail | Archer | $25,000 | no account filed |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Archer | $1,000 | Wind gusts estimated to be near 60 MPH knocked down a few large tree limbs. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Archer | - | A wind gust of 58 MPH was captured by an unofficial mesonet station located three miles east-northeast of Archer. |
| June 2011 | Tornado (EF0) | Archer | - | A weak tornado touched down in northern Merrick County, with no damage reported. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Archer | - | no account filed |
| August 2018 | Hail | Archer | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Archer | - | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Hail | Archer | - | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Archer | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hord | 3.8 miles | 14 | |
| Paddock | 7.0 miles | 14 | |
| Palmer | 7.5 miles | 13 | |
| Central City | 7.9 miles | 14 | |
| Worms | 8.5 miles | 13 | |
| Heber | 9.3 miles | 14 | |
| Chapman | 9.8 miles | 13 | |
| Riverside Park | 9.9 miles | 14 |
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 Archer | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4785936 | 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 827041. 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.




