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Ceresco, Nebraska

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Richland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68017. The Survey maps it on the Ceresco quadrangle. 919 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,220 feet above sea level.

Ceresco within Saunders County

Population over time

2 figures

Ceresco grew from 889 to 919 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
2010889
2020919+30 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

12 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Ceresco between 2005 and 2020, burning about 208 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 burning4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1

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
28 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use30 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
17 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
30 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
27 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 May 2017Debris and open burning84 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
11 April 2009Debris and open burning80 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
19 February 2011Fireworksunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saunders County

Storms near this place

40 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ceresco in 40 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 16 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind, 7 flash flood, 3 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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
July 2006Thunderstorm WindCeresco1 hurtThunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph knocked a tree onto a truck injuring a Ceresco man who was transported to the County Health Services Hospital with relatively minor injuries.
May 2011Flash FloodCeresco$1,000Heavy rain, estimated at 2 to 3 inches in a few hours, caused flash flooding which briefly closed at least one county road near Ceresco.
April 2024HailCeresco-The office received a public report with pictures of baseball sized hail near Ceresco, Nebraska.
July 2024Flash FloodCeresco-Water was reported over Highway 77 south of Ceresco.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindCeresco-A 59 miles per hour wind gust was recorded by a mesonet station.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindCeresco-Trained spotter reported tree limb damage and blowing debris.
June 2022HailCeresco-Public reported 1.25 inch hail accompanied by 50 mph winds.
June 2022HailCeresco-Public reported at least golf ball size hail. Ground was covered with hail and trees were completed stripped of leaves. Younger trees were stripped of bark.
December 2021Tornado (EF1)Ceresco-A tornado developed just north of the Jack Sinn Memorial Wildlife Management area, producing damage to farm buildings and then moving off toward the northeast, and eventually the north northeast as observed by a storm chaser. The tornado caused damage to several barns and outbuildings along the track, including complete destruction of barns near Road 11 and Road F. The tornado also overturned several pivot irrigation systems and snapped wooden power poles at multiple locations, including numerous poles along Highway 92 which prompted a multi-day closure of the highway. The tornado also impacted the University of Nebraska Farm where a video was taken of the small fast-moving tornado and several buildings sustained damage. The tornado ended 1 mile northwest of Yutan where a farm outbuilding was blown for a significant distance and trees were damage. Significant downburst winds on the east flank of the tornado circulation were evident on radar and damage to pivot irrigation systems and other structures throughout the duration of the tornado.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindCeresco-Trained spotter estimated wind speeds at 65 mph.
October 2020Thunderstorm WindCeresco-Report from mping of 3 inch tree limbs broken; power poles broken.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindCeresco-Tree limbs blown down.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindCeresco-Three inch diameter tree limbs were broken along with power poles snapped 3 miles east of Ceresco.
May 2014Flash FloodCeresco-Heavy rain caused brief flash flooding of a few roads in the Ceresco area.
May 2014Tornado (EF0)Ceresco-This tornado had a track of a little under 2 miles.
May 2013Flash FloodCeresco-Heavy rain flooded the city park along Highway 77.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindCeresco-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph were accompanied by nickel-size hail.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindCeresco-A spotter estimated that thunderstorm outflow winds reached 60 to 70 mph.
May 2012HailCeresco-Nickel-size hail was accompanied by thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindCeresco-The emergency manager of Saunders county was nearly blown off the road by thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 mph. Two wheels of his vehicle were briefly lifted off the road.
June 2008Tornado (EF1)Ceresco-A second tornado spun up while the first tornado to its south was dissipating. This tornado affected mainly the northern end of Ceresco downing trees and power lines and causing some building damage. This tornado could have also possibly traveled farther east, but the survey was limited due to downed power lines.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindCeresco-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated at between 60 and 70 mph by a weather spotter east of Ceresco.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindCeresco-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 mph took down a few trees and upset playground equipment in town. The winds were preceeded by 1 inch hail.
June 2005HailCeresco-The hail was followed by winds estimated at 70 mph.
May 2005HailCeresco-Nickel size hail was reported along with 50 mph winds.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindCeresco-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines around Ceresco. The winds were caused by the same thunderstorm complex that caused the extensive tree damage around Wahoo.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindCeresco-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at around 60 mph caused some tree and power line damage in Ceresco.
June 1999Flash FloodCeresco-Flash flooding over highway 77 near Ceresco.
May 1998Flash FloodCeresco-Heavy rains from thunderstorms caused flooding which damaged some homes on the east side of Ceresco.
May 1998Flash FloodCeresco-Thunderstorms produced heavy rains that washed out a part of County Road 6 just south of County Line road.
May 2019HailCeresco-no account filed
June 2014HailCeresco-no account filed
May 2007HailCeresco-no account filed
April 2005HailCeresco-no account filed
May 2005HailCeresco-no account filed
August 2005HailCeresco-no account filed
April 2004HailCeresco-no account filed
June 2004HailCeresco-no account filed
April 2002HailCeresco-no account filed
August 2002HailCeresco-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Saunders 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
Swedeburg5.5 miles12
Ithaca9.2 miles12
Valparaiso10.0 miles12
Wahoo10.7 miles12
Weston10.8 miles11
Touhy10.8 miles11
Memphis11.6 miles14
Mead14.4 miles17

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 CerescoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2080853The 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 828072. 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.