BlockBefore

Cedar Rapids, Nebraska

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Cedar precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68627. The Survey maps it on the Cedar Rapids quadrangle. 382 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,765 feet above sea level.

Cedar Rapids within Boone County

On record in Cedar Rapids

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Cedar Rapids grew from 382 to 382 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
2010382
20203820 (0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 11 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 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Rapids between 2011 and 2020, burning about 7 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 burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
5 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
9 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
4 March 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
28 January 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
21 January 2014Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
18 January 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boone County

Storms near this place

40 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cedar Rapids in 40 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 21 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 2019Flash FloodCedar Rapids$50,000Heavy rain and rapid snow melt created ice jams along Cedar Creek and flooded Highway 52 and Highway 56. The town of Cedar Rapids was evacuated due to the impending flood waters.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindCedar Rapids$50,000Semi tractor trailer overturned. Large 12 inch diameter tree branches were also blown down.
June 2025HailCedar Rapids-Trained spotter report of hail estimated up to 1 inch in diameter.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindCedar Rapids-Measured gust from public mesonet station of 64 mph.
April 2024HailCedar Rapids-The office received a public report of golf ball sized hail just to the west of Cedar Rapids, Nebraska. Another golf ball sized hail report in the area was reported on mPING at the same time.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindCedar Rapids-A 69 mph wind gust was measured from a personal weather station.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindCedar Rapids-A 58 mph wind gust was recorded on a personal weather station.
September 2023HailCedar Rapids-Trained spotter reported 1-inch hail and torrential rainfall. The spotter reported they received 1.40 inches of rain in 30 minutes.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindCedar Rapids-Trained spotter reported 5-inch tree limbs down due to wind gusts.
October 2022Thunderstorm WindCedar Rapids-Personal weather station measured a peak wind gust of 61 mph.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindCedar Rapids-Personal weather station measured a peak wind gust of 69 mph.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindCedar Rapids-The public reported winds to near 70 mph. This resulted in tree limbs of 2 to 3 inches in diameter being blown down. There were also center irrigation pivots overturned as well.
April 2013HailCedar Rapids-Hail up to quarter-size was accompanied by freezing rain and sleet in the Cedar Rapids area.
May 2012HailCedar Rapids-Hail up to ping pong ball-size was reported just southeast of Cedar Rapids.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindCedar Rapids-Emergency Management estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of around 60 mph between Cedar Rapids and Saint Edwards. The strong winds caused scattered tree damage in the Cedar Rapids area.
June 2008HailCedar Rapids-The hail was accompanied by thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph.
May 2008Flash FloodCedar Rapids-Rainfall of 2 to 3 inches produced areas of flash flooding from around Cedar Rapids east across Highway 14 south of Albion then to near Boone. Debris from the flooding briefly closed Highway 14 with other flooding observed along River Road near Cedar Rapids and the Highway spur into Boone. Flash flooding also closed Highway 32 east of Petersburg for a while and several county roads also experienced flooding which not only closed them this evening, but also washed out their approaches.
February 2007FloodCedar Rapids-An ice jam along the Cedar River near Cedar Rapids flooded some farmland and few county roads near Cedar Rapids. The river came out of it's banks between 1/2 and 3/4 of a mile in the area.
August 2004HailCedar Rapids-Hail estimated at 1 inch in diameter stripped corn fields west of town.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindCedar Rapids-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated at around 60 mph by a storm spotter. The winds downed large tree limbs causing damage to at least one vehicle in town.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindCedar Rapids-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at around 60 mph caused tree damage in town.
October 2001Tornado (F0)Cedar Rapids-This tornado crossed over from Nance county...southwest of Boone county...one and one half miles east of the western county line. The tornado then traveled 1 mile north before lifting. According to a damage survey from the National Weather Service Hastings, Nebraska office, the tornado was around 60 yards wide in Boone county, and only some minor tree and crop damage was reported in Boone county, although more damage was observed across Nance county.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindCedar Rapids-Trees downed.
June 2018HailCedar Rapids-no account filed
April 2017HailCedar Rapids-no account filed
June 2014HailCedar Rapids-no account filed
September 2008HailCedar Rapids-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindCedar Rapids-no account filed
May 2007HailCedar Rapids-no account filed
May 2007HailCedar Rapids-no account filed
May 2005HailCedar Rapids-no account filed
May 2005HailCedar Rapids-no account filed
May 2005HailCedar Rapids-no account filed
October 2001HailCedar Rapids-no account filed
October 2001HailCedar Rapids-no account filed
October 2000HailCedar Rapids-no account filed
September 1998HailCedar Rapids-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindCedar Rapids-no account filed
September 1995HailCedar Rapids-no account filed
September 1995Thunderstorm WindCedar Rapids-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boone 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
Primrose6.6 miles11
Albion11.7 miles10
Boone12.9 miles9
Akron13.5 miles11
Loretto14.5 miles10
Saint Edward14.8 miles10
Vorhees14.8 miles9
Petersburg20.5 miles10

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 RapidsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2608595The 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 828013. 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.