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Boone, Nebraska

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Boone precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68620. It stands on Vorhees Creek. The Survey maps it on the Albion East quadrangle.

Boone within Boone County

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

24 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Boone between 2004 and 2020, burning about 2,145 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 burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
12 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
28 August 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
27 August 2016Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
12 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
31 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
22 May 2014Railroad operations and maintenance8.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boone County

Storms near this place

11 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boone in 11 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 tornado, 1 flood. 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
June 2025HailBoone-Trained spotter report of hail measured up to 1 inch in diameter.
April 2024Tornado (EFU)Boone-A trained spotter confirmed a short-lived tornado with no damage. This tornado was estimated to be around 50 yards wide.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindBoone-Personal weather station measured a peak wind gust of 61 mph.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindBoone-Personal weather station measured a wind gust of 62 mph.
October 2017Tornado (EF0)Boone-The National Weather Service in conjunction with local emergency management confirmed that a brief tornado occurred 2 3/4 miles northwest of St. Edward. The tornado damaged grain bins, a small farm outbuilding, trees and some crops.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindBoone-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 to 70 mph blew over a large propane tank near Boone and damaged farm outbuildings at several farmsteads. Large tree limbs were also downed in the area which blocked Highway 39 for a while. At least 6 center pivots were flipped in the general area.
June 2008Flash FloodBoone-Heavy rain during the evening and overnight hours of June 7th and 8th caused flash flooding from around Boone west across Highway 14 south of Albion. The flooding prompted the brief closing of Highway 14. The flooding also closed a few county roads in the area and flooded agricultural lowlands.
May 2007FloodBoone-Unofficial rainfall of 5 inches fell over parts of Boone county, especially around the St Edward area. The heavy rain flooded some basements in St Edward and also caused Beaver Creek to flood county roads and even Highway 39 near town. Some of the flood waters spilled onto sections of downtown St Edward, reportedly for the first time since the mid 1980s.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindBoone-Wind damage due to thunderstorm winds included power lines and trees downed.
May 2000HailBoone-Golf ball size hail reported by law enforcement official.
June 1997HailBoone-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boone 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
Vorhees2.1 miles9
Saint Edward4.8 miles10
Albion6.4 miles10
Cedar Rapids12.9 miles11
Loretto12.9 miles10
Primrose17.0 miles11
Petersburg17.8 miles10
Closter18.0 miles9

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 BooneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17492186The 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 827561. 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.