Bancroft, Nebraska
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Bancroft Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68004. The Survey maps it on the Bancroft quadrangle. 496 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,339 feet above sea level.
On record in Bancroft
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 2 records
John G. Neihardt Studylisted 1970
Rattlesnake Creek Bridgelisted 1992
Population over time
2 figuresBancroft grew from 495 to 496 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 | 495 | |
| 2020 | 496 | +1 (+0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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 Sioux City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Bancroft quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Sioux City South quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Bancroft between 2002 and 2015, burning about 102 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 |
|---|---|
| Smoking | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 July 2007 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 4.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 12 May 2002 | Smoking | 18 acres | Winnebago Agency | A1302054 |
| 19 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 80 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this place
32 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bancroft in 32 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 16 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bancroft | - | A 69 miles per hour wind gust was measured by a personal weather station. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bancroft | - | Trained spotter reported widespread tree damage in and near Bancroft. |
| July 2023 | Tornado (EF1) | Bancroft | - | A brief 1/2 mile long tornado which was embedded with an area of intense downburst winds started on the north side of Bancroft. The tornado dented in a grain bin, destroyed an outbuilding and snapped about a half dozen trees. The tornado continued east, damaged some sheds, knocked over a tractor trailer, and snapped more trees. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bancroft | - | Public reported estimated 80 mph wind gusts and power outages. |
| August 2022 | Hail | Bancroft | - | Emergency manager reported 1 inch hail. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bancroft | - | Law enforcement reported a flattened corn. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bancroft | - | Personal weather station reported a peak wind gusts of 61 mph. |
| December 2021 | Tornado (EF1) | Bancroft | - | Tornado segment 1 of 2. This tornado began southwest of Bancroft, uprooting several large pine trees, collapsing a windmill, and tearing shingles of the roof of a home. The tornado continued northeast, passing just northwest of Bancroft and entered Thurston County northwest of Rosalie. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bancroft | - | Personal weather station measured a 61 mph wind gust. |
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bancroft | - | Public personal weather station report winds of 60 MPH. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bancroft | - | A storm chaser measured a 70 mph wind gust 4 miles west of Bancroft. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bancroft | - | Trees and power lines down. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bancroft | - | Local law enforcement reported that trees limbs and power lines were downed by the strong winds in town. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bancroft | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at close to 60 mph downed several large tree limbs in town. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bancroft | - | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at nearly 70 mph north of Bancroft before the storm weakened. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bancroft | - | A trained weather spotter estimated thunderstorm wind gusts approached 60 mph. |
| June 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Bancroft | - | Brief tornado touchdown in open country observed by storm chasers. |
| October 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bancroft | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at around 60 mph downed tree limbs northwest of Bancroft. |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bancroft | - | Trees and power lines were blown down at Bancroft. |
| June 2016 | Hail | Bancroft | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Bancroft | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Bancroft | - | no account filed |
| September 2015 | Hail | Bancroft | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Bancroft | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Bancroft | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Bancroft | - | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Hail | Bancroft | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Bancroft | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Bancroft | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Bancroft | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Bancroft | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bancroft | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Point | 13.8 miles | 9 | |
| Beemer | 13.9 miles | 8 | |
| Bismarck | 17.4 miles | 8 | |
| Saint Charles | 17.8 miles | 9 | |
| Wisner | 18.2 miles | 8 | |
| Bismarck (historical) | 19.1 miles | 8 | |
| Monterey | 19.5 miles | 8 | |
| Aloys | 21.6 miles | 8 |
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 Bancroft | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2460565 | 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 827170. 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.




