Berea, Nebraska
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Fifteen precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69301. The Survey maps it on the Berea Creek West quadrangle. 49 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,144 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBerea grew from 41 to 49 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 | 41 | |
| 2020 | 49 | +8 (+20%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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.
- 1948 USGS Berea Creek West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Alliance quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Alliance quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Alliance quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Alliance quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
8 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Berea between 2008 and 2020, burning about 5 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 August 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 8 July 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 26 July 2008 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 24 July 2017 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 30 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 26 June 2012 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 21 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 13 December 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
39 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Berea in 39 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 29 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1999 | Hail | Berea | $10,000 | 1.75 inch hail damaged house and broke windows 3 miles east of Berea, NE |
| June 1997 | Hail | Berea | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Hail | Berea | $1,000 | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Berea | $700 | Four to six inch diameter limbs down. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Berea | - | A trained weather spotter reported quarter sized hail 15 miles NE of Berea. |
| August 2024 | Hail | Berea | - | Social media post of ping pong ball sized hailstone that was measured. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Berea | - | Wind gusts up to 58 MPH and pea sized hail were observed 13 miles north of Alliance. |
| September 2019 | Hail | Berea | - | Nearby soybean fields were damaged as a result of the falling hail. |
| September 2019 | Tornado (EFU) | Berea | - | Tornado was observed for roughly ninety seconds with several outflow gustnadoes reported near the parent supercell. No visible damage was noted making it impossible to discern an appropriate rating besides unknown. |
| October 2016 | Hail | Berea | - | Ping pong ball size hail was reported seven miles north of Alliance on Highway 81. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Berea | - | Dime to quarter size hail was reported at Berea. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Berea | - | Quarter size hail was reported at Berea. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Berea | - | Ping pong ball size hail covered the ground eight miles west of Berea. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Berea | - | Half dollar size hail was reported on Highway 87 nine miles north of Alliance. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Berea | - | Wind gusts estimated at 65 mph were reported on Highway 87 nine miles north of Alliance. |
| June 2015 | Funnel Cloud | Berea | - | A funnel cloud was sighted five miles north-northwest of Alliance. |
| May 2014 | Tornado (EF0) | Berea | - | A weak tornado touched down in open country east of Kilpatrick Lake and moved northeast. It was on the ground for 10 minutes. No damage was reported. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Berea | - | Quarter size hail was observed four miles northeast of Kilpatrick Lake. |
| May 2014 | Funnel Cloud | Berea | - | Two funnel clouds were sighted over Kilpatrick Lake. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Berea | - | Estimated wind gusts of 55 to 60 mph were observed six miles northeast of Wild Horse Butte. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Berea | - | Quarter size hail was reported southwest of Berea. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Berea | - | Quarter size hail was reported west of Berea. |
| August 2013 | Hail | Berea | - | Dme to quarter size hail was reported southwest of Berea. |
| April 2012 | Heavy Rain | Berea | - | A spotter measured 3.8 inches of rain from a slow moving thunderstorm. There were small hail drifts up to six inches deep. |
| April 2012 | Heavy Rain | Berea | - | Rainfall estimates up to eight inches from slow moving thunderstorms inundated farm fields with standing water. |
| April 2012 | Flash Flood | Berea | - | Water over six inches deep was running over Highways 87 and 2 north of Alliance with water filling the surrounding ditches. |
| May 2010 | Hail | Berea | - | Hail up to 2 inches deep. |
| May 2010 | Hail | Berea | - | Had two different rounds of hail 10 minutes apart. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Berea | - | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Hail | Berea | - | no account filed |
| July 2021 | Hail | Berea | - | no account filed |
| July 2021 | Hail | Berea | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Hail | Berea | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Berea | - | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Hail | Berea | - | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Hail | Berea | - | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Hail | Berea | - | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Hail | Berea | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Berea | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hemingford | 8.9 miles | 9 | |
| Alliance | 9.6 miles | 11 | |
| Letan | 13.9 miles | 11 | |
| Nonpareil | 15.2 miles | 10 |
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 Berea | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4165206 | 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 827335. 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.




