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Bennet, Nebraska

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Nemaha precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68317. The Survey maps it on the Bennet quadrangle. 1,082 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,280 feet above sea level.

Bennet within Lancaster County

Population over time

2 figures

Bennet grew from 719 to 1,082 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
2010719
20201,082+363 (+50%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

35 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Bennet between 2007 and 2020, burning about 286 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 burning21
Equipment and vehicle use6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1
Smoking1
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
20 August 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
13 August 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
25 July 2015Natural1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
17 June 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
14 June 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
9 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
12 May 2018Smoking220 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lancaster County

Storms near this place

38 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bennet in 38 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 22 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 heavy rain. 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 2001Thunderstorm WindBennet$25,000Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at around 75 mph severely damaged a garage and farm building and also downed power lines near Bennet.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindBennet$20,000Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 70 mph caused considerable tree damage from around Bennet to Firth. Although most of the tree damage was done in the Bennet area from around 134th to 162nd streets...a grain silo was toppled in Firth.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindBennet-A report was received for a recorded wind gust of 58 miles per hour from a personal weather station just east of Lincoln, Nebraska.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindBennet-Trained spotter reported a measured peak wind gust of 59 mph.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindBennet-A personal weather station measured a peak wind gust of 61 mph.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindBennet-Trained Spotter reported a measured peak wind gust of 92 mph.
June 2020HailBennet-Public reported 1 inch hail.
June 2020HailBennet-Public reported 1.25 in hail.
June 2020Flash FloodBennet-Lancaster emergency management reported water over a roadway.
June 2020Heavy RainBennet-Public reported 4.67 inches of rain with storm system.
August 2014HailBennet-Trained spotters reported hail to quarter size. The broadcast media also reported half dollar size hail as well.
October 2013Tornado (EF2)Bennet-This tornado touched down 2.5 miles southwest of Hickman near the Stagecoach Lake State Recreation area. It then moved through the Wagon Train Lake State Recreation area where it strengthened to EF2 intensity. It continued to track to the northeast, moving about 1 miles south of Bennet before ending 1 mile northwest of Palmyra. The strength of this tornado was rated EF2 based on the property damage near the Wagon Train Lake State Recreation and based on property damage just west of Palmyra. The intensity was EF1 south of Bennet. Otherwise the tornado strength was rated EF0 along the remainder of the track. The entire track of this tornado was 16.5 miles.
April 2012Flash FloodBennet-Heavy rain caused flash flooding across county road 120 west of Bennet. Damage was apparently minimal.
June 2011HailBennet-The hail lasted about 10 minutes and was as large as golf ball size.
April 2010Heavy RainBennet-Rainfall of 2.75 inches in Bennet from several storms that moved across the area this evening caused considerable standing water in farm fields around town.
March 2009Tornado (EF1)Bennet-This is the third of 5 cyclic tornadoes that a low-topped supercell thunderstorm produced at it tracked southeast through east of the Lincoln area. This tornado touched down around 2.5 miles west of Bennet, in Lancaster county, tracked northeast clipping the far northwest corner of Otoe county and then lifted around 1.5 miles into the southwest corner of Cass county. In Lancaster county the tornado uprooted trees and caused farm outbuilding damage. In Cass county the tornado destroyed a garage and tossed the debris into a occupied car injuring 5 people. The total path length was around 11 miles.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindBennet-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 to 70 mph downed trees and caused house damage a few miles west of Bennet and also caused tree damage south of there into the Panama area. In Panama a tree fell on a car causing damage.
July 2008Tornado (EF0)Bennet-A brief touchdown of a non-supercell, very narrow rope tornado was reported by an amateur radio operator near Bennett who also captured it on film. The tornado caused no apparent damage.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindBennet-Thunderstorm winds were estimated at 60 mph. The winds were accompanied by dime size hail.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindBennet-Thunderstorm winds, which were estimated at between 60 and 80 mph, downed trees west of Bennet and caused some outbuilding damage.
June 2005HailBennet-Hail up to 1 inch in diameter was accompanied by wind gusts estimated at 60 mph. The hail caused some damage to vehicles in the area.
August 2016HailBennet-no account filed
July 2014HailBennet-no account filed
July 2014HailBennet-no account filed
March 2012HailBennet-no account filed
April 2010HailBennet-no account filed
April 2010HailBennet-no account filed
April 2010HailBennet-no account filed
August 2009HailBennet-no account filed
March 2007HailBennet-no account filed
March 2007HailBennet-no account filed
June 2006HailBennet-no account filed
July 2006HailBennet-no account filed
July 2006HailBennet-no account filed
May 2005HailBennet-no account filed
November 2003HailBennet-no account filed
April 2001HailBennet-no account filed
June 1998HailBennet-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lancaster 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
Panama5.7 miles14
Cheney5.7 miles15
Pine Lake7.1 miles15
Holland7.3 miles14
Hickman7.7 miles15
Roca8.2 miles15
Walton8.7 miles16
Pella (historical)8.8 miles14

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 BennetAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1943608The 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 827321. 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.