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Bingham, Nebraska

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1989. It stands in South Sheridan precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69335. The Survey maps it on the Bingham quadrangle. It stands 3,894 feet above sea level.

Bingham within Sheridan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

1 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Bingham in 2002, burning about 3 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
Smoking1

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
26 May 2002Smoking3.0 acresNorth Platte National Wildlife RefugeSTATELINE

Every fire recorded in Sheridan County

Storms near this place

17 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bingham in 17 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 13 hail, 4 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2003HailBingham$3,000Hail and strong winds broke windows, produced roof damage, and broke large tree limbs.
May 2005HailBingham$1,000no account filed
April 2025Thunderstorm WindBingham-Thunderstorm wind gust of 59 MPH measured at this location.
April 2025HailBingham-Storm chaser reports 3 inch diameter hail west of Bingham.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindBingham-Public report of 65 MPH winds at this location.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindBingham-No details available.
June 2018HailBingham-Hail mainly quarter size with some half dollar size hail mixed in.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindBingham-Extensive tree limbs damaged and down.
June 2023HailBingham-no account filed
July 2017HailBingham-no account filed
May 2014HailBingham-no account filed
August 2009HailBingham-no account filed
June 2007HailBingham-no account filed
March 2007HailBingham-no account filed
May 2003HailBingham-no account filed
May 2001HailBingham-no account filed
July 1996HailBingham-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sheridan 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
Ellsworth10.5 miles11
Jennings (historical)16.3 miles11
Lakeside18.0 miles11
Antioch26.4 miles11
Hoffland30.4 miles11
Lulu (historical)32.0 miles10
Grayson (historical)35.2 miles11
Hilton (historical)36.7 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 BinghamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4914187The 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 827448. 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.