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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.

Bancroft within Cuming County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Bancroft 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.

YearPeople Change
2010495
2020496+1 (+0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

3 since 2002

Regional 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
Smoking1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
30 July 2007Railroad operations and maintenance4.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
12 May 2002Smoking18 acresWinnebago AgencyA1302054
19 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Cuming County

Storms near this place

32 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2024Thunderstorm WindBancroft-A 69 miles per hour wind gust was measured by a personal weather station.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindBancroft-Trained spotter reported widespread tree damage in and near Bancroft.
July 2023Tornado (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 2022Thunderstorm WindBancroft-Public reported estimated 80 mph wind gusts and power outages.
August 2022HailBancroft-Emergency manager reported 1 inch hail.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindBancroft-Law enforcement reported a flattened corn.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindBancroft-Personal weather station reported a peak wind gusts of 61 mph.
December 2021Tornado (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 2020Thunderstorm WindBancroft-Personal weather station measured a 61 mph wind gust.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindBancroft-Public personal weather station report winds of 60 MPH.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindBancroft-A storm chaser measured a 70 mph wind gust 4 miles west of Bancroft.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindBancroft-Trees and power lines down.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindBancroft-Local law enforcement reported that trees limbs and power lines were downed by the strong winds in town.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindBancroft-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at close to 60 mph downed several large tree limbs in town.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindBancroft-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at nearly 70 mph north of Bancroft before the storm weakened.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindBancroft-A trained weather spotter estimated thunderstorm wind gusts approached 60 mph.
June 2001Tornado (F0)Bancroft-Brief tornado touchdown in open country observed by storm chasers.
October 2001Thunderstorm WindBancroft-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at around 60 mph downed tree limbs northwest of Bancroft.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindBancroft-Trees and power lines were blown down at Bancroft.
June 2016HailBancroft-no account filed
July 2016HailBancroft-no account filed
April 2015HailBancroft-no account filed
September 2015HailBancroft-no account filed
June 2014HailBancroft-no account filed
May 2011HailBancroft-no account filed
June 2009HailBancroft-no account filed
August 2008HailBancroft-no account filed
June 2001HailBancroft-no account filed
June 2001HailBancroft-no account filed
June 2001HailBancroft-no account filed
May 1999HailBancroft-no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindBancroft-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cuming 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
West Point13.8 miles9
Beemer13.9 miles8
Bismarck17.4 miles8
Saint Charles17.8 miles9
Wisner18.2 miles8
Bismarck (historical)19.1 miles8
Monterey19.5 miles8
Aloys21.6 miles8

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 BancroftAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2460565The 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.