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Beaver City, Nebraska

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Beaver City precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68926. The Survey maps it on the Beaver City quadrangle. 537 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,178 feet above sea level.

Beaver City within Furnas County

Population over time

2 figures

Beaver City fell from 609 to 537 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
2010609
2020537-72 (-12%)

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

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Beaver City between 2006 and 2017, burning about 11 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
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
27 February 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
17 November 2006Equipment and vehicle use10 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Furnas County

Storms near this place

60 of 69 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beaver City in 69 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 42 hail, 16 thunderstorm wind, 6 heavy rain, 4 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
June 2023HailBeaver City$1,000,000Extensive home and vehicle damage was reported from hail up to baseball size, driven by wind gusts near 70 MPH.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindBeaver City$1,000,000no account filed
May 2004Tornado (F1)Beaver City$300,000A tornado traveled a 3 mile path in southeast Furnas county and was witnessed by many people. One farmstead sustained damage to several outbuildings but the house did not have significant damage. A little farther down the road a tractor and six row planter were overturned on top of a car.
June 2023HailBeaver City$250,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindBeaver City$200,000no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindBeaver City$200,000no account filed
June 2016Thunderstorm WindBeaver City$150,000An estimated 70 mph thunderstorm wind gust occurred. Part of a tree fell on a house. Also, dime size hail and torrential rain occurred.
October 2023Thunderstorm WindBeaver City$125,000Wind gusts estimated to be near 75 MPH resulted in damage along this path. At least four metal outbuildings suffered damage, and one old wooden barn was destroyed. Tree damage was reported, and several power poles were also damaged.
November 2015Tornado (EF1)Beaver City$50,000This tornado crossed into Nebraska southeast of Beaver City and traveled north-northeast across rural areas of Furnas County south of Hollinger. Damage along the path was primarily to trees, power poles, some signs, outbuildings and small farm machinery. The tornado damaged mainly power poles and trees south of Highway 89. After it crossed Highway 89, the tornado clipped a barn and farm storage area northeast of Hollinger. The western side roof covering was ripped from the barn and several grain carts were moved on the property causing other damage. The maximum width was estimated from damage located approximately 4 miles north of the Kansas state line. The maximum wind speed was estimated to be 95 MPH.
June 2012HailBeaver City$50,000no account filed
June 2000HailBeaver City$40,000no account filed
September 2013Thunderstorm WindBeaver City$25,000Wind gusts were estimated near 60 mph. Tree branches up to 5 inches in diameter were blown down and the roof of a small metal building sustained damage.
September 2015HailBeaver City$25,000no account filed
May 2016HailBeaver City$15,000no account filed
July 2017Thunderstorm WindBeaver City$10,000Wind gusts were estimated to be near 75 MPH.
May 2004Tornado (F0)Beaver City$10,000A brief tornado was reported south of Beaver City. About a dozen power poles were blown down.
July 2009HailBeaver City$10,000no account filed
July 2007Thunderstorm WindBeaver City$10,000no account filed
September 2001Heavy RainBeaver City$10,000no account filed
May 2007HailBeaver City$5,000no account filed
June 1996HailBeaver City$5,000no account filed
July 2024Thunderstorm WindBeaver City$3,000Wind gusts estimated to be near 60 MPH resulted in isolated tree damage in Beaver City.
August 1996LightningBeaver City$3,000no account filed
July 2024Tornado (EFU)Beaver City-This tornado was a brief touchdown reported by storm chasers. No rating nor wind speed was assigned due to the lack of quality damage indicators in the area. The location was estimated based off of video and photos.
July 2023HailBeaver City-Hail up to the size of quarters was reported in Beaver City.
October 2023Thunderstorm WindBeaver City-A wind gust of 67 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located four miles south-southeast of Beaver City.
April 2022HailBeaver City-Hail ranging anywhere in size from peas to tennis balls was reported along and near this path, including in the towns of Beaver City and Hollinger.
June 2017HailBeaver City-NeRAIN observer reported quarter size hail.
June 2016HailBeaver City-Heavy rain and hail up to the size of quarters occurred.
May 2016Heavy RainBeaver City-A storm total rainfall amount of 3.24 inches was reported.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindBeaver City-Sustained winds were near 50 mph with gusts to 60 mph. Heavy rainfall was also occurring.
June 2013HailBeaver City-Pea to quarter size hail fell for 5 to 10 minutes.
March 2013HailBeaver City-Hail covered the ground along Highway 283 northwest of Beaver City.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindBeaver City-Wind gusts were estimated at 70 mph.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindBeaver City-Hail the size of golf balls fell along with estimated wind gusts of 70 mph.
May 2011Heavy RainBeaver City-Storm total rainfall of 3.20 inches reported over last 24 hours by a NeRAIN observer.
October 2011Heavy RainBeaver City-Total rainfall over the past 24 hours of 4.72 inches was reported by a Nebraska Rainfall Assessment and Information Network observer.
October 2011Heavy RainBeaver City-Total rainfall over the past 24 hours of 4.37 inches was reported by a Nebraska Rainfall Assessment and Information Network observer.
October 2011Heavy RainBeaver City-Total rainfall over the past 24 hours of 4.57 inches was reported.
April 2024HailBeaver City-no account filed
May 2024HailBeaver City-no account filed
July 2024HailBeaver City-no account filed
July 2023HailBeaver City-no account filed
July 2022HailBeaver City-no account filed
July 2020HailBeaver City-no account filed
June 2020HailBeaver City-no account filed
March 2018HailBeaver City-no account filed
May 2016HailBeaver City-no account filed
May 2016HailBeaver City-no account filed
June 2012HailBeaver City-no account filed
May 2010HailBeaver City-no account filed
May 2010HailBeaver City-no account filed
June 2010HailBeaver City-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindBeaver City-no account filed
May 2008HailBeaver City-no account filed
April 2007HailBeaver City-no account filed
August 2007HailBeaver City-no account filed
May 2005Thunderstorm WindBeaver City-no account filed
May 2004HailBeaver City-no account filed
May 2004HailBeaver City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Furnas 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
Deerfield Corner3.4 miles14
Hollinger6.6 miles13
Precept7.0 miles13
Hendley7.5 miles14
Edison10.0 miles14
Arapahoe12.1 miles14
Oxford12.9 miles13
Wilsonville14.8 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 Beaver CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q963096The 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 827246. 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.