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Avoca, Nebraska

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Avoca precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68307. The Survey maps it on the Avoca quadrangle. 178 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,181 feet above sea level.

Avoca within Cass County

Population over time

2 figures

Avoca fell from 242 to 178 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.

YearPeople Change
2010242
2020178-64 (-26%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

8 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Avoca between 2001 and 2011, burning about 456 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 burning4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Fireworks1

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
20 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use10 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
17 May 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
3 March 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
14 March 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
1 March 2007Fireworksunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
20 November 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
13 November 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
4 October 2005Equipment and vehicle use443 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Storms near this place

8 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Avoca in 8 storm reports between 2000 and 2021: 5 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2021Tornado (EF2)Avoca-A very narrow tornado was witnessed and caused substantial damage to vehicles and farm equipment while destroying a large shed near its onset and proceeded to cause minor damage for approximately 3 miles to the northeast before dissipating.
June 2008Funnel CloudAvoca-A high-based narrow funnel cloud was caught and film south of Avoca. The funnel apparently did not touch down, and if it did no damage was reported.
June 2004HailAvoca-Hail up to nickel size was accompanied by estimated wind gusts of up to 60 mph.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindAvoca-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated up to 60 mph were accompanied by up to nickel size hail.
May 2007HailAvoca-no account filed
April 2006HailAvoca-no account filed
March 2000HailAvoca-no account filed
July 2000HailAvoca-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cass 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
Weeping Water5.2 miles13
Nehawka7.1 miles13
Manley8.9 miles13
Wabash9.6 miles14
Elmwood9.8 miles13
Union10.4 miles13
Todd11.5 miles15
Murdock12.4 miles14

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 AvocaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2261347The 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 827125. 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.