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Boys Town, Nebraska

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Omaha City. It lies in ZIP code area 68010. The Survey maps it on the Elkhorn quadrangle. 410 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,234 feet above sea level.

Boys Town within Douglas County

On record in Boys Town

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Boys Town fell from 745 to 410 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
2010745
2020410-335 (-45%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Omaha city. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From Omaha: the Gate City, and Douglas County, Nebraska;, published 1917 - Omaha City

Urban B. Balcombe

Urban B. Balcombe, who died at Excelsior Springs, Missouri, March 7, 191 7, was born in Elgin, Illinois,' in 1852. His father. Saint A. D. Balcombe, removed with his family to Omaha from Winona, Minnesota, July 5, 1865. He had formerly been agent for the captured Sioux and Winnebago Indians and in 1863 removed them to St.

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Fires near this place

18 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Boys Town between 2008 and 2020, burning about 14 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 burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
23 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
25 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
10 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
2 July 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
15 July 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
29 June 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
23 May 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
20 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this place

35 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boys Town in 35 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 19 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 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
May 2024Flash FloodBoys Town$100,000Several rounds of thunderstorms during the early morning hours across the Omaha metro brought flash flooding to parts of the metro. The first reports of flash flooding came in just before 6:30 in the morning near Maple and 132nd Street. An additional report of flooded streets was received west of Carter Lake near the Sorensen and Fontenelle intersection. Water was also reported over a road in Boys Town.
August 2010LightningBoys Town$70,000A lightning strike caused a house fire in northwest Omaha.
April 2026HailBoys Town-Broadcast media report of hail measured up to 0.88 inches in diameter near Boys Town, NE.
April 2025HailBoys Town-Public report of hail estimated up to 1.75 in diameter from an mPING report.
April 2025HailBoys Town-Trained spotter report of hail estimated at 1 in diameter.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindBoys Town-A 60 miles per hour wind gust was recorded on a personal weather station.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindBoys Town-The office received a public report of several 1 to 3 inch tree limbs down in a neighborhood.
July 2023HailBoys Town-NWS Employee reported 1.5-inch hail.
July 2023HailBoys Town-Trained spotter reported 1-inch hail.
July 2023HailBoys Town-Public reported 1.5-inch hail via mPING.
July 2023HailBoys Town-Trained spotter reported 1.5-inch hail.
July 2023HailBoys Town-Public reported 1-inch hail via mPING.
July 2023HailBoys Town-Public reported 1-inch hail via mPING.
April 2022HailBoys Town-Public reported 1 inch hail via mPing.
April 2022HailBoys Town-Public reported 1 inch hail.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindBoys Town-Public report from mPing of damage to 3 inch tree branches.
October 2020Thunderstorm WindBoys Town-Public via social media reported a large tree down across 150th and Dodge St in Omaha.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindBoys Town-Wind estimated at 60 MPH by tree damage. A 5 inch tree was snapped and portions of a fence were blown down.
April 2016Tornado (EF1)Boys Town-This tornado started on 132nd Street and traveled north northeast crossing Blondo Street just east of 132nd Street where EF1 damage occurred due to a tree being uprooted. Other tree and fence damage was noted along this section of path. After crossing Blondo Street the tornado turned more north northwest crossing 132nd Street a Ekskine Street. The tornado continued north into the South Ridge subdivision producing mainly try damage before dissipating just before the Eagle Run subdivision.
April 2016Tornado (EF0)Boys Town-A brief tornado touchdown was observed by storm chasers near the Alice Buffett Magnet Middle School. The storm survey team found little damage in the area.
June 2011HailBoys Town-Around a mile northwest of Boystown.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindBoys Town-A thunderstorm wind gust of 69 mph was measured by Asos at Omaha Eppley Airfield at 820 pm Cdt. The winds caused substantial tree damage in parts of town, notably near and east northeast of 156th and Blondo Streets, near Bennington and also in parts of midtown. Fences and outbuildings also sustained damage in those areas. Some other scattered tree damage was noted in town and power was knocked out to parts of town as well.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindBoys Town-Thunderstorm winds estimated at around 60 mph caused scattered tree damage in the Omaha area which knocked out power to around 11,000 OPPD customers. Known tree damage included an eight inch in diameter tree limb downed near 144th and Blondo, a large limb down on a road near 45th and H Streets and a large tree downed on 55th Street just south of Dodge Street. A measured wind gust of 56 mph was recorded at the NWS office with this storm at 358 am CDT. Heavy rain in a short time also caused some minor street flooding east of 42nd Street.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindBoys Town-A thunderstorm wind gust of 62 mph was measured on home weather equipment near 156th and Maple Streets. The strong winds caused scattered tree damage, mainly across the northern sections of town from around Irvington through Florence. The fallen trees caused some vehicle and home damage and also knocked the power out to around 8,000 OPPD customers across the northern sections of town.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindBoys Town-Thunderstorm wind gusts reached 60 to 80+ mph across northern and northeast sections of Omaha from the second super-cell thunderstorm that tracked across the city on the 18th. The strongest winds were reported at 163rd and Fort Streets, Interstate 80 and the Irvington exit, near 52nd and Maple Streets and around Omaha Eppley Airfield. Trees were downed from Gallagher Park, near 52nd and Maple, toward Eppley. The wind equipment at the Asos at Eppley was damaged by the wind driven hail from the first storm, but reportedly wind shear measuring equipment around the runways measured gusts of 80 knots.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindBoys Town-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph from near 156th and Maple to around 150th and Blondo Streets in west Omaha. The winds uprooted a large tree near 156th and Maple and caused other minor tree damage in the area. Pea-size and slightly larger hail accompanied the strong winds.
March 2009HailBoys Town-Reported near 132nd and Fort Streets. From the second storm that rolled across the Omaha metro area this evening.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindBoys Town-Three foot diameter tree uprooted. Four to five inch diameter limbs off other trees. Pacific Springs area.
March 2017HailBoys Town-no account filed
June 2014HailBoys Town-no account filed
October 2002HailBoys Town-no account filed
June 1998HailBoys Town-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindBoys Town-no account filed
June 1998HailBoys Town-no account filed
June 1998HailBoys Town-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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
Green Meadows1.2 miles17
Lane2.0 miles19
Maplewood Estates2.5 miles18
Omaha Regency2.9 miles17
Millard3.7 miles18
Elkhorn5.7 miles17
Irvington5.8 miles18
Ralston6.1 miles18

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 Boys TownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2312269The 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 827609. 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.