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Bloomington, Nebraska

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1986. It stands in East Bloomington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68929. The Survey maps it on the Bloomington quadrangle. 110 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,946 feet above sea level.

Bloomington within Franklin County

Population over time

2 figures

Bloomington grew from 103 to 110 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
2010103
2020110+7 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

30 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Bloomington between 2004 and 2019, burning about 192 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 burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1
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
30 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2014Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
21 August 2007Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
1 August 2004Equipment and vehicle use100 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 July 2013Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
4 July 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
25 July 2017Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
28 June 2008Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bloomington in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 9 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 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
July 2019Flash FloodBloomington$100,000no account filed
September 2003HailBloomington$25,000no account filed
September 2012HailBloomington$15,000no account filed
April 2014HailBloomington$10,000Quarter to half dollar size hail fell.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindBloomington-A wind gust of 66 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located seven miles north-northwest of Bloomington.
May 2012HailBloomington-no account filed
June 2011HailBloomington-no account filed
June 2004HailBloomington-no account filed
May 1999HailBloomington-no account filed
May 1999HailBloomington-no account filed
June 1996HailBloomington-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Franklin4.5 miles12
Naponee5.7 miles13
Macon8.9 miles12
Riverton14.7 miles12
Hildreth16.8 miles13
Upland17.1 miles12
Campbell21.4 miles12

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 BloomingtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1898110The 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 827496. 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.