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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.

Berea within Box Butte County

Population over time

2 figures

Berea 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.

YearPeople Change
201041
202049+8 (+20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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 2008

Regional 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/undetermined3
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
7 August 2009Naturalunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
8 July 2008Naturalunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
26 July 2008Natural1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
24 July 2017Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
30 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
26 June 2012Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
21 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
13 December 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Box Butte County

Storms near this place

39 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 1999HailBerea$10,0001.75 inch hail damaged house and broke windows 3 miles east of Berea, NE
June 1997HailBerea$5,000no account filed
August 1996HailBerea$1,000no account filed
May 2010HailBerea$700Four to six inch diameter limbs down.
June 2024HailBerea-A trained weather spotter reported quarter sized hail 15 miles NE of Berea.
August 2024HailBerea-Social media post of ping pong ball sized hailstone that was measured.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindBerea-Wind gusts up to 58 MPH and pea sized hail were observed 13 miles north of Alliance.
September 2019HailBerea-Nearby soybean fields were damaged as a result of the falling hail.
September 2019Tornado (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 2016HailBerea-Ping pong ball size hail was reported seven miles north of Alliance on Highway 81.
July 2016HailBerea-Dime to quarter size hail was reported at Berea.
July 2016HailBerea-Quarter size hail was reported at Berea.
July 2016HailBerea-Ping pong ball size hail covered the ground eight miles west of Berea.
June 2015HailBerea-Half dollar size hail was reported on Highway 87 nine miles north of Alliance.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindBerea-Wind gusts estimated at 65 mph were reported on Highway 87 nine miles north of Alliance.
June 2015Funnel CloudBerea-A funnel cloud was sighted five miles north-northwest of Alliance.
May 2014Tornado (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 2014HailBerea-Quarter size hail was observed four miles northeast of Kilpatrick Lake.
May 2014Funnel CloudBerea-Two funnel clouds were sighted over Kilpatrick Lake.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindBerea-Estimated wind gusts of 55 to 60 mph were observed six miles northeast of Wild Horse Butte.
July 2013HailBerea-Quarter size hail was reported southwest of Berea.
July 2013HailBerea-Quarter size hail was reported west of Berea.
August 2013HailBerea-Dme to quarter size hail was reported southwest of Berea.
April 2012Heavy RainBerea-A spotter measured 3.8 inches of rain from a slow moving thunderstorm. There were small hail drifts up to six inches deep.
April 2012Heavy RainBerea-Rainfall estimates up to eight inches from slow moving thunderstorms inundated farm fields with standing water.
April 2012Flash FloodBerea-Water over six inches deep was running over Highways 87 and 2 north of Alliance with water filling the surrounding ditches.
May 2010HailBerea-Hail up to 2 inches deep.
May 2010HailBerea-Had two different rounds of hail 10 minutes apart.
May 2022HailBerea-no account filed
May 2021HailBerea-no account filed
July 2021HailBerea-no account filed
July 2021HailBerea-no account filed
July 2020HailBerea-no account filed
June 2019HailBerea-no account filed
September 2019HailBerea-no account filed
September 2019HailBerea-no account filed
September 2019HailBerea-no account filed
September 2019HailBerea-no account filed
May 2010HailBerea-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Box Butte 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
Hemingford8.9 miles9
Alliance9.6 miles11
Letan13.9 miles11
Nonpareil15.2 miles10

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 BereaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4165206The 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.