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.
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
States Ballroomlisted 1981
Population over time
2 figuresBee 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 191 | |
| 2020 | 171 | -20 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 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.
- 1899 USGS David City quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Dwight quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS David City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
37 since 2000Regional 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 burning | 19 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 9 August 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 8 August 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 30 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 19 August 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 15 August 2002 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 29 July 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 20 July 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 2007Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2025 | Hail | Bee | - | Public report of hail estimated up to 2 in diameter. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Bee | - | Hail from quarter to ping-pong ball-size fell for several minutes in the Bee area. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bee | - | 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 2008 | Hail | Bee | - | The hail occurred with the same supercell thunderstorm that produced a tornado west of the region. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bee | - | The winds were accompanied by penny size hail. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Bee | - | The hail occurred along with winds estimated at 60 mph. |
| September 2009 | Hail | Bee | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Garland | 5.7 miles | 15 | |
| Staplehurst | 6.5 miles | 14 | |
| Seward | 7.2 miles | 14 | |
| Marysville (historical) | 8.5 miles | 14 | |
| Tamora | 11.8 miles | 14 | |
| Ruby | 12.1 miles | 15 | |
| Goehner | 14.8 miles | 15 | |
| Riverside Park | 15.1 miles | 15 |
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 Bee | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q526618 | 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 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.





