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Burr, Nebraska

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in South Branch precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68324. The Survey maps it on the Burr quadrangle. 52 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,129 feet above sea level.

Burr within Otoe County

Population over time

2 figures

Burr fell from 57 to 52 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
201057
202052-5 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

14 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Burr between 2003 and 2020, burning about 376 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/undetermined2
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
9 August 2018Debris and open burning2.3 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
28 May 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
26 May 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
8 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
7 April 2009Debris and open burning35 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
28 April 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
18 April 2018Debris and open burning20 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
30 March 2012Debris and open burning40 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Otoe County

Storms near this place

10 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burr in 10 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 6 hail, 4 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
April 2022Thunderstorm WindBurr-Public reported a measured 80 mph wind gust.
March 2011Thunderstorm WindBurr-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph by a spotter near Burr along with half inch hail.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindBurr-A trained weather spotter estimated westerly thunderstorm outflow winds of 75 mph east of Burr. These strong winds spread into the Talmage area splitting or knocking over several large trees and causing minor damage to many trees in town.
July 2006HailBurr-The hail was also accompanied by strong winds, at least 50 mph according to the report of a trained spotter near town.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindBurr-Strong winds broke large tree limbs.
April 2010HailBurr-no account filed
June 2009HailBurr-no account filed
June 2006HailBurr-no account filed
July 2006HailBurr-no account filed
March 2004HailBurr-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Otoe 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
Douglas6.2 miles13
Unadilla10.3 miles13
Syracuse10.3 miles13
Tangeman11.4 miles13
Palmyra12.5 miles13
Talmage14.8 miles13
Cio (historical)15.2 miles13
Delta (historical)15.2 miles13

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 BurrAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1917234The 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 827794. 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.