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Beaver Crossing, Nebraska

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Precinct M. It lies in ZIP code area 68313. The Survey maps it on the Beaver Crossing quadrangle. 375 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,467 feet above sea level.

Beaver Crossing within Seward County

On record in Beaver Crossing

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Beaver Crossing fell from 403 to 375 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
2010403
2020375-28 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Beaver Crossing between 2004 and 2018, burning about 111 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning2
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
21 August 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
15 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use20 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
7 May 2018Debris and open burning20 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 March 2015Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
4 March 2009Smokingunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
24 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
3 December 2009Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 October 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined48 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Seward County

Storms near this place

14 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beaver Crossing in 14 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 7 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
July 1994Thunderstorm WindBeaver Crossing$500Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph snapped off the top of a tree. The tree then fell over into a backyard.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindBeaver Crossing-Law enforcement reported a semi that had flipped along Interstate 80 near the Utica exit.
April 2022Tornado (EFU)Beaver Crossing-Trained spotters reported with video of a tornado that developed and moved across the region between 378 and 398 Road near O Street.
May 2014Tornado (EF2)Beaver Crossing-This tornado developed rapidly after the Beaver Crossing tornado as the supercell continued to move northeast. The tornado quickly strengthened to EF2 and completed destroyed several large outbuildings as it crossed Pioneers and Van Dorn Roads. The tornado turned more northeast as it crossed A street downing power lines and snapping trees. The tornado crossed Interstate 80 about a half mile west of the of the Highway 15 interchange where a semi tractor trailer was overturned. The tornado weakened and turned east as it moved north of the Interstate and produced mainly minor tree and power line damage.
May 2012HailBeaver Crossing-The hail was mostly dime-size, but a few stones up to half dollar-size were observed.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindBeaver Crossing-Home weather equipment of a trained weather spotter measured thunderstorm wind gusts at 58 mph.
June 2001HailBeaver Crossing-no account filed
June 2001HailBeaver Crossing-no account filed
June 1999HailBeaver Crossing-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindBeaver Crossing-no account filed
May 1996HailBeaver Crossing-no account filed
August 1995Thunderstorm WindBeaver Crossing-no account filed
July 1994HailBeaver Crossing-no account filed
July 1994HailBeaver Crossing-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Seward 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
Goehner4.9 miles15
Cordova5.7 miles10
Tamora8.5 miles14
Utica8.8 miles14
Ruby11.5 miles15
Riverside Park12.3 miles15
Milford12.3 miles15
Grover13.0 miles15

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 CrossingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3074124The 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 827258. 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.