Brock, Nebraska
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Lafayette precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68320. It stands on Houchen Creek. The Survey maps it on the Brock quadrangle. 123 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 965 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBrock grew from 112 to 123 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 | 112 | |
| 2020 | 123 | +11 (+10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1915 USGS Howe quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Brock quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Falls City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Brock between 2002 and 2020, burning about 5 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 | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 April 2002 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 3 April 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Boyer Chute National Wildlife Refuge | TRASH |
| 31 March 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 13 October 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
18 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brock in 18 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 3 flood, 2 flash 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2000 | Tornado (F0) | Brock | $30,000 | A brief touchdown of a tornado destroyed 3 outbuildings and did some roof damage of a farm house southwest of Brock. |
| June 2000 | Flash Flood | Brock | $15,000 | Heavy rainfall fell over Nemaha county Friday evening the 23rd of June. An observer north of Auburn reported 6.84 inches of rain that evening with 3 to 4 inches common throughout the county. The rain flooded highway 75 near the Otoe county border and near its intersection with highway 67, and also washed a culvert out near Brock. |
| April 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brock | - | Delayed report of thunderstorm wind damage received from the public of a large tree limb broken on a house. Time estimated with radar. Wind speeds were estimated at 60-70 mph. |
| June 2020 | Flash Flood | Brock | - | Law enforcement reported water over the road. |
| September 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brock | - | Farm outbuilding and corn cribs were reported damaged. |
| April 2012 | Tornado (EF0) | Brock | - | A weak tornado overturned a few center pivots as it tracked mostly in open fields southwest of Talmage. Some tree and outbuildings were also damaged along its 3.75 mile path. The tornado initially touched down just across the county line in Johnson county, but most of the track was in Nemaha county. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brock | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph knocked down tree limbs 6 to 8 inches in diameter near Brock. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brock | - | Thunderstorm winds gusts were estimated by the public at 60 mph. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brock | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 to 70 mph caused scattered farm outbuilding damage from near Johnson to near Brock. Power lines were also downed from the storm along Highway 67 which caused its closure and knocked power out in Brock. The winds were from the supercell thunderstorm that produced 3 tornadoes southwest of Johnson. |
| June 2008 | Flood | Brock | - | Heavy rain that fell across the Little Nemaha River basin on June 4th prompted the Little Nemaha River to flood from around Brock downstream through Auburn and then to its confluence with the Missouri River near Nemaha. Additional rain on June 5th prolonged the flooding along the lower reaches of the river. Highway 136 east of Auburn was flooded as were county roads in the area and agricultural lowlands along the river. The Little Nemaha River at Auburn crested at 24.4 feet around 10pm CDT on June 5th, flood stage is 22 feet. The river at Auburn dropped below flood stage around 7am on June 6th. |
| May 2007 | Flood | Brock | - | Rainfall of 3 to 5 inches fell over much of the Little Nemaha River basin from Friday May 4th through Sunday May 6th, with 4.94 inches reported in Auburn. The heavy rain caused the Little Nemaha River to flood over several days with a double crest observed both the 6th and 7th. The river at Auburn first crossed its 22 foot flood stage around 515 am cdt on May 6th, reached its first crest around 23.6 feet around noon that day, fell below flood stage around 5 pm and then moved back over flood stage around 330 am cdt on May 7th. The River at Auburn then reached a second crest, peaking at 23.9 feet around 815 am on May 7th before falling below flood stage for good around 215 pm cdt that afternoon. The flooding closed Highway 136 near Auburn Saturday night May 5th. |
| October 2007 | Flood | Brock | - | Heavy rain produced flooding along the Little Nemaha River both upstream and downstream of Auburn. The river at Auburn crested at 22.6 feet around 615 am CDT on October 15th, flood stage is 22 feet. The river at Auburn was above flood stage from around 1145 pm CDT on 10/14 until 930 am on the 15th.||The flooding closed Highway 136 east of Auburn for around 6 hours and also flooded some farmland along the river. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brock | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph knocked down a large tree in Brock. |
| May 2001 | Hail | Brock | - | Hail up to nickel size fell for around 15 minutes near Brock. |
| June 2000 | Hail | Brock | - | Golfball size hail was accompanied by 70 mph wind from east of Brock to south of Julian. The winds and hail knocked power lines down and did some tree damage. The wind and hail also extensively damaged around 20 thousand acres of corn. |
| August 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brock | - | Strong thunderstorm winds blew down power poles. Damaged was estimated near $30,000. |
| March 2007 | Hail | Brock | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Brock | - | 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 Brock | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3052848 | 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 827658. 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.





