Battle Creek, Nebraska
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Battle Creek precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68715. It stands on Battle Creek. The Survey maps it on the Battle Creek quadrangle. 1,194 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,588 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBattle Creek fell from 1,207 to 1,194 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 | 1,207 | |
| 2020 | 1,194 | -13 (-1%) |
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 Fremont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Battle Creek quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Stanton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
13 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Battle Creek between 2007 and 2017, burning about 63 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 26 July 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 8 June 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 19 May 2009 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 13 May 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 30 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 2 April 2009 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 6 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 29 March 2009 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
36 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Battle Creek in 36 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 18 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 funnel cloud, 3 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 2007 | Flood | Battle Creek | $500,000 | Rainfall of 2 to 4 inches fell across much of Madison county. The heavy rain caused Battle Creek to flood low areas around the Battle Creek area, including Highway 121 near town causing its closure. The creek also flooded the water treatment plant and prompted sandbagging around town, with up to 10,000 bags used. At least 400 homes received some sort of flood damage. The flooding also left debris in several county bridges. |
| June 2010 | Flash Flood | Battle Creek | $4,000 | Heavy rain caused flash flooding across a few roads in the Battle Creek area. |
| July 1997 | Hail | Battle Creek | $2,000 | Large hail damaged 12,000 acres of corn and 6,000 acres of soybeans. |
| June 2024 | Funnel Cloud | Battle Creek | - | The office received a report of a funnel cloud from a state trooper. |
| May 2023 | Tornado (EF1) | Battle Creek | - | A short-lived tornado traveled approximately 3.1 miles to the north northwest, primarily causing damage to trees. The most focused damage was in a grove of mature cottonwood trees where multiple trunks were snapped. |
| October 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Battle Creek | - | Emergency manager reported a destroyed grain bin. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Battle Creek | - | Law enforcement reported multiple downed tree branches. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Battle Creek | - | Public reported the roof blown off of a machine shed. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Battle Creek | - | Law enforcement reported power outage in Battle Creek. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Battle Creek | - | Public reported large tree branch down blocking the road. |
| March 2019 | Flood | Battle Creek | - | Water is over the road at 839th West of Battle Creek. |
| September 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Battle Creek | - | The public reported that 12 healthy trees were blown down on their property. There was also a boat flipped over, as well as shingles removed from the house. |
| April 2012 | Hail | Battle Creek | - | Hail that reached around golf ball-size fell in the Battle Creek area. The hail fell for around 10 minutes and covered the ground and caused some damage in the area. |
| August 2011 | Hail | Battle Creek | - | Mostly smaller, but there was a lot of it according the law enforcement in the area. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Battle Creek | - | Very little/no rain was falling when the hail began. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Battle Creek | - | Hail up to half dollar-size fell north of Battle Creek. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Battle Creek | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at nearly 60 mph caused scattered tree damage from west of Battle Creek into the Norfolk area. The winds were accompanied by hail up to half dollar-size. |
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | Battle Creek | - | Very heavy rain, in the order of 1 to 2 inches in less than an hour, produced flash flooding across highway 275 about 4 to 5 miles west of Norfolk. |
| June 2008 | Flood | Battle Creek | - | Battle Creek continued to rise in the Battle Creek area into Sunday afternoon June 8th. This kept several roads in town including Highway 121 closed until around evening. The flood waters tried going through the town park as it attempted to get to the Elkhorn River. So despite sandbags placed around many homes in the area, quite a few residents on the east side of town had their basements flooded. |
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | Battle Creek | - | Heavy rain caused flash flooding which closed Highway 121 and many county roads around Battle Creek as well as a few streets in Battle Creek. Basements in town were flooded. Unofficial reports of 3 to 4 inches of rain fell from this storm in Battle Creek, and Norfolk, just to the east of town, received 3 inches of rain in about a 3 hour period leading up to the flooding. |
| May 2005 | Hail | Battle Creek | - | Accompanied by wind gusts estimated at 40 to 50 mph. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Battle Creek | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Battle Creek | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Battle Creek | - | no account filed |
| September 2010 | Hail | Battle Creek | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Battle Creek | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Battle Creek | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Battle Creek | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Battle Creek | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Battle Creek | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Battle Creek | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Battle Creek | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Funnel Cloud | Battle Creek | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Battle Creek | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Funnel Cloud | Battle Creek | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Battle Creek | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meadow Grove | 7.5 miles | 9 | |
| Fairview (historical) | 7.8 miles | 9 | |
| Warnerville | 8.5 miles | 9 | |
| Enola | 9.8 miles | 9 | |
| Norfolk | 9.8 miles | 10 | |
| Emerick | 10.0 miles | 9 | |
| Kalamazoo | 12.0 miles | 9 | |
| Tilden | 12.9 miles | 9 |
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 Battle Creek | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q957710 | 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 827218. 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.




