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Beverly, Nebraska

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Pleasant Hill precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69024. The Survey maps it on the Beverly quadrangle.

Beverly within Hitchcock County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

4 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Beverly between 2017 and 2018, burning about 9 acres in total. None 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 burning2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
4 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
2 July 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution8.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
7 June 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
30 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hitchcock County

Storms near this place

23 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beverly in 23 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 16 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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
August 2019Thunderstorm WindBeverly$5,000The local fire department reported tree damage and power lines down at the intersection of US Highway 6 and NE Highway 25.
August 2007LightningBeverly$5,000Lightning apparently struck an insulator at the Beverly, Nebraska substation, resulting in power outages across Dundy and Hitchcock counties for about an hour.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindBeverly$1,000Citizen reported two double pane windows on the west side of a single family residence were blown out due to strong winds and 1 inch hail.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindBeverly$1,000A road sign was reportedly ripped out of the ground by thunderstorm wind gusts.
September 2025HailBeverly-Report sent in via mPING.
July 2024HailBeverly-Hail ranged from pea to quarter size and lasted around 3 minutes.
June 2024HailBeverly-One inch hail occurred along with a few that were closer to 2 inches.
August 2023HailBeverly-Report received of golf ball to baseball sized hail at the junction of Hwy 6 and Hwy 25.
August 2023HailBeverly-Report received of pea to nickel sized hail at location.
September 2023HailBeverly-Spotter driving a semi on Highway 6 ran into storm and had hail ranging from ping pong to tennis ball.
May 2021HailBeverly-The hail ranged from golf ball to baseball in size.
May 2021HailBeverly-The hail occurred with wind gusts of atleast 60 MPH.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindBeverly-The wind gusts were atleast 60 MPH. Quarter size hail also occurred.
July 2020HailBeverly-Quarter sized hail fell for a duration of 5 minutes at the location. The hail and severe wind damaged two windows at the residence.
July 2020HailBeverly-The hail ranged from half inch to one inch in size. Wind gusts of 40-50 MPH also occurred.
July 2020HailBeverly-The spotter reported the hail had been coming down for 5-10 minutes.
May 2019HailBeverly-Pea to quarter size hail reported from storm chasers.
August 2019Flash FloodBeverly-Water was reportedly running over the roadway at the intersection of NE Hwy 25 and CR 719.
July 2020HailBeverly-no account filed
August 2019Flash FloodBeverly-no account filed
August 2014HailBeverly-no account filed
April 2013HailBeverly-no account filed
July 1996HailBeverly-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hitchcock 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
Trenton7.6 miles7
Culbertson8.0 miles7
Palisade8.5 miles8
Stratton16.2 miles7
Cornell (historical)17.8 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 835249. 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.