Butte, Nebraska
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Butte Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68722. It lies near Harvey Buttes. The Survey maps it on the Butte quadrangle. 286 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,811 feet above sea level.
On record in Butte
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 1 record
SS Peter & Paul Catholic Schoollisted 1992
Population over time
3 figuresButte fell from 366 to 286 between 2000 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 366 | |
| 2010 | 326 | -40 (-11%) |
| 2020 | 286 | -40 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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.
- 1955 USGS O'Neill quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS O'Neill quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Butte quadrangle1:24000
- 1969 USGS O'Neill quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Atkinson quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS O'Neill quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
8 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Butte between 2006 and 2015, burning about 21 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 June 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 16 May 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 14 May 2010 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 3 April 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 13 April 2010 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 11 April 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 10 March 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 25 December 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
41 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Butte in 41 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 24 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2019 | Flood | Butte | $3,000,000 | The Highway 11 bridge across the Niobrara River about 5 miles south of Butte is closed due to flooding. An ice jam produced large ice blocks that remained at the time of NWS storm survey. |
| March 2019 | Flood | Butte | $500,000 | The NDOR web site reported street flooding in Butte as well as along Highway 12 from 3 miles south of Butte. |
| August 2008 | Flash Flood | Butte | $100,000 | Up to 5 inches of rain fell with strong thunderstorms causing rapid runoff and significant damage to secondary roads and crops. |
| August 2014 | Hail | Butte | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Butte | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Butte | $5,000 | The large hail broke out windows in a home. |
| July 2020 | Flash Flood | Butte | $1,000 | A cooperative observer reported street flooding throughout Butte. |
| June 2023 | Flash Flood | Butte | - | Sheriff reported water over roadways in, and around Butte. Water was also reported over Highway 12 near Butte. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Butte | - | Law enforcement reported 65 mph wind gusts in Butte. |
| July 2019 | Tornado (EF0) | Butte | - | A brief tornado touched down in an open field with no reported damage. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Butte | - | A trained weather spotter estimated 60 mph wind gusts in Butte. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Butte | - | Tree limbs down near Highway 12. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Butte | - | Several trees downed along a quarter mile stretch of an unimproved road. |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Butte | - | The strong winds broke off very large tree branches. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Butte | - | A large thunderstorm produced penny to half dollar size hail. The hail accumulated to 4 to 5 inches deep. Snowplows were needed to remove the hail from the highways. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Butte | - | Numerous 4 to 6 inch diameter tree limbs were broken off by the thunderstorm winds. |
| September 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Butte | - | 60 mph thunderstorm winds were reported at Butte. |
| July 2018 | Hail | Butte | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Butte | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Butte | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Butte | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Butte | - | no account filed |
| March 2009 | Hail | Butte | - | no account filed |
| March 2009 | Hail | Butte | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Butte | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Butte | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Butte | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Butte | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Butte | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Butte | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Butte | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Butte | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Butte | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Butte | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Butte | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Butte | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Butte | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Butte | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Butte | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Butte | - | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Butte | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anoka | 2.6 miles | 9 | |
| Baker (historical) | 8.2 miles | 9 | |
| Spencer | 8.2 miles | 10 | |
| Naper | 13.6 miles | 10 | |
| Rosedale (historical) | 14.2 miles | 9 | |
| Bristow | 14.8 miles | 11 | |
| Gross | 14.9 miles | 9 | |
| Lynch | 21.1 miles | 11 |
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 Butte | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2617226 | 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 827820. 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.





