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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.

Butte within Boyd County

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

Population over time

3 figures

Butte 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.

YearPeople Change
2000366
2010326-40 (-11%)
2020286-40 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

8 since 2006

Regional 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 use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning2

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
1 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
16 May 2012Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
14 May 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
3 April 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
13 April 2010Debris and open burning10 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
11 April 2014Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
10 March 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
25 December 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boyd County

Storms near this place

41 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2019FloodButte$3,000,000The 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 2019FloodButte$500,000The NDOR web site reported street flooding in Butte as well as along Highway 12 from 3 miles south of Butte.
August 2008Flash FloodButte$100,000Up to 5 inches of rain fell with strong thunderstorms causing rapid runoff and significant damage to secondary roads and crops.
August 2014HailButte$10,000no account filed
May 2002HailButte$10,000no account filed
June 2008HailButte$5,000The large hail broke out windows in a home.
July 2020Flash FloodButte$1,000A cooperative observer reported street flooding throughout Butte.
June 2023Flash FloodButte-Sheriff reported water over roadways in, and around Butte. Water was also reported over Highway 12 near Butte.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindButte-Law enforcement reported 65 mph wind gusts in Butte.
July 2019Tornado (EF0)Butte-A brief tornado touched down in an open field with no reported damage.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindButte-A trained weather spotter estimated 60 mph wind gusts in Butte.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindButte-Tree limbs down near Highway 12.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindButte-Several trees downed along a quarter mile stretch of an unimproved road.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindButte-The strong winds broke off very large tree branches.
June 2008HailButte-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 2007Thunderstorm WindButte-Numerous 4 to 6 inch diameter tree limbs were broken off by the thunderstorm winds.
September 1997Thunderstorm WindButte-60 mph thunderstorm winds were reported at Butte.
July 2018HailButte-no account filed
June 2017HailButte-no account filed
June 2017HailButte-no account filed
May 2016HailButte-no account filed
June 2009HailButte-no account filed
March 2009HailButte-no account filed
March 2009HailButte-no account filed
June 2008HailButte-no account filed
June 2008HailButte-no account filed
June 2005HailButte-no account filed
July 2002HailButte-no account filed
August 2002HailButte-no account filed
August 2002HailButte-no account filed
July 2001HailButte-no account filed
July 2001HailButte-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindButte-no account filed
June 1999HailButte-no account filed
July 1997HailButte-no account filed
August 1997Thunderstorm WindButte-no account filed
August 1997Thunderstorm WindButte-no account filed
August 1997HailButte-no account filed
May 1996HailButte-no account filed
June 1994HailButte-no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindButte-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boyd 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
Anoka2.6 miles9
Baker (historical)8.2 miles9
Spencer8.2 miles10
Naper13.6 miles10
Rosedale (historical)14.2 miles9
Bristow14.8 miles11
Gross14.9 miles9
Lynch21.1 miles11

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 ButteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2617226The 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.