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Bee, Nebraska

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Precinct B. It lies in ZIP code area 68314. The Survey maps it on the Dwight quadrangle. 171 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,558 feet above sea level.

Bee within Seward County

On record in Bee

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

Bee fell from 191 to 171 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
2010191
2020171-20 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

37 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Bee between 2000 and 2018, burning about 789 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning19
Equipment and vehicle use9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1

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
29 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
9 August 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
30 August 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
19 August 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
15 August 2002Debris and open burning5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
29 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
20 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use15 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Seward County

Storms near this place

7 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bee in 7 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 5 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 2025HailBee-Public report of hail estimated up to 2 in diameter.
May 2014HailBee-Hail from quarter to ping-pong ball-size fell for several minutes in the Bee area.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindBee-Thunderstorm winds, associated with the supercell that spawned 2 tornadoes in the Ulysses area, caused damage around Bee. The winds were estimated at over 60 mph.
June 2008HailBee-The hail occurred with the same supercell thunderstorm that produced a tornado west of the region.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindBee-The winds were accompanied by penny size hail.
June 2007HailBee-The hail occurred along with winds estimated at 60 mph.
September 2009HailBee-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
Garland5.7 miles15
Staplehurst6.5 miles14
Seward7.2 miles14
Marysville (historical)8.5 miles14
Tamora11.8 miles14
Ruby12.1 miles15
Goehner14.8 miles15
Riverside Park15.1 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 BeeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q526618The 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 827274. 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.