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.
Population over time
2 figuresBloomington 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 103 | |
| 2020 | 110 | +7 (+7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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.
- 1896 USGS Holdrege quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Grand Island quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Grand Island quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Grand Island quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Bloomington quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Holdrege quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
30 since 2004Regional 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 burning | 17 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 August 2014 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 21 August 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 1 August 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | 100 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 6 July 2013 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 4 July 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 25 July 2017 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 28 June 2008 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2019 | Flash Flood | Bloomington | $100,000 | no account filed |
| September 2003 | Hail | Bloomington | $25,000 | no account filed |
| September 2012 | Hail | Bloomington | $15,000 | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Bloomington | $10,000 | Quarter to half dollar size hail fell. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bloomington | - | A wind gust of 66 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located seven miles north-northwest of Bloomington. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Bloomington | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Bloomington | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Bloomington | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Bloomington | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Bloomington | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Bloomington | - | 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.
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 Bloomington | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1898110 | 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 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.





