Cedar Creek, Nebraska
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Eight Mile Grove precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68016. It stands on Cedar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cedar Creek quadrangle. 465 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,020 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCedar Creek grew from 390 to 465 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 | 390 | |
| 2020 | 465 | +75 (+19%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 18 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.
- 1893 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:125000
- 1896 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Cedar Creek quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
20 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Creek between 2011 and 2020, burning about 177 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 | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 11 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 11 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 30 June 2012 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 9 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 21 April 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 9 March 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 6 March 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Cedar Creek: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Calcium, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ash Grove Quarry & Crusher | Calcium | Producer | ||
| Plant #5,Cullom | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Ash Grove Cement Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Louisville Plant Quarry & Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
24 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cedar Creek in 24 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 11 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2010 | Tornado (EF1) | Cedar Creek | $4,000 | A brief tornado touchdown caused damage to a pole barn before lifting near Highway 66. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Creek | - | A personal weather station measured a 64 miles per hour wind gust. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Creek | - | Law enforcement reported trees downed across Highway 66. |
| April 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Creek | - | Public reported uprooted trees and some short stations and docks topped over into the lake. |
| April 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Creek | - | Personal weather station measured a peak wind gust of 58 mph. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Creek | - | Personal weather station measured a peak wind gust of 65 mph. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Creek | - | Personal weather station measured a peak wind gust of 65 mph. |
| February 2018 | Hail | Cedar Creek | - | A thunderstorm produced sleet and small hail south of Cedar Creek. |
| June 2018 | Flash Flood | Cedar Creek | - | There was flooding northeast of Cedar Creek . Five feet of water was reported in a garage as well as flooding at the local baseball fields. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Creek | - | A spotter in the town of Cedar Creek reported winds of at least 60 mph. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Cedar Creek | - | A few hailstones reached around dime-size near Highway 66 and 108th Street. |
| August 2012 | Hail | Cedar Creek | - | The hail was accompanied by thunderstorm wind gusts which were estimated at around 60 mph. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Creek | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at around 60 mph were accompanied by dime-size hail. |
| February 2011 | Flood | Cedar Creek | - | Minor ice jam flooding was observed along the Platte River in the Cedar Creek area for a relatively brief time. Little apparent damage was noted. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Creek | - | A spotter estimated a thunderstorm wind gust of 60 mph. |
| March 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Creek | - | Thunderstorm winds blew the front porch off of a home and caused some outbuilding and tree damage in town. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Cedar Creek | - | no account filed |
| April 2016 | Hail | Cedar Creek | - | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Hail | Cedar Creek | - | no account filed |
| September 2015 | Hail | Cedar Creek | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Cedar Creek | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Cedar Creek | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Cedar Creek | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Cedar Creek | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cullom | 4.2 miles | 18 | |
| Louisville | 4.3 miles | 13 | |
| Buccaneer Bay | 7.7 miles | 14 | |
| South Bend | 8.1 miles | 17 | |
| Manley | 8.8 miles | 13 | |
| Oreapolis | 9.6 miles | 14 | |
| Mynard | 10.3 miles | 15 | |
| Plattsmouth | 11.6 miles | 14 |
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 Cedar Creek | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2789189 | 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 827994. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.






