Chalco, Nebraska
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Richland VIII precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68138. It stands on Wehrspann Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gretna quadrangle. 11,064 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,073 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresChalco grew from 10,994 to 11,064 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 | 10,994 | |
| 2020 | 11,064 | +70 (+1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 19 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 Gretna quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
- 1957 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
13 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Chalco between 2011 and 2015, burning about 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 July 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 17 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 13 July 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 27 June 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 9 April 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 4 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 3 April 2015 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
29 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chalco in 29 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 22 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2026 | Hail | Chalco | - | Public report of hail estimated up to 1 inch in diameter near Chalco, NE. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Chalco | - | Public report of hail estimated up to 1 inch in diameter near Chalco, NE. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chalco | - | Personal weather station measured wind gust of 64 mph. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chalco | - | Personal weather station measured wind gust of 68 mph near 192nd and Harrison Street. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Chalco | - | Public reported 1 inch hail via mPing. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Chalco | - | Public reported 1-inch hail. |
| March 2020 | Hail | Chalco | - | Public reported 1 inch hail. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chalco | - | Substantial tree damage in the area. Roof damage to homes. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chalco | - | One inch tree limbs blown down. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chalco | - | Damaging thunderstorm winds uprooted tress and broke large tree limbs 2 miles east southeast of Chalco. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Chalco | - | Golf ball size hail was reported from 160th St to 132nd Street along Harrison. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Chalco | - | Most of the hail was pea size, but a few stones near dime size also fell. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chalco | - | An apparent wet-microburst caused scattered tree and fence damage from around 130th to 144th Streets a little south of Harrison Street southwest of the Millard airport. Some of the fallen trees caused house, vehicle and light pole damage. The winds were estimated to have been over 60 mph. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Chalco | - | From the 2nd of at least 3 storms that produced severe-size hail in Sarpy county this evening. This storm dropped quarter-size or perhaps a bit larger hail from near Gretna and the Chalco area east northeast to north of Offutt AFB over a period 45 minutes or so. |
| May 2010 | Hail | Chalco | - | Nickel to quarter-size hail was reported from just northeast of Gretna through the 151st and Giles Street area. |
| May 2010 | Hail | Chalco | - | Reported near 161st and Giles. |
| March 2009 | Hail | Chalco | - | From the second severe storm to pass across the region this evening. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Chalco | - | Reported near 159th and Giles. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Chalco | - | Reported by an off duty NWS employee a few miles northeast of Gretna. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Chalco | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Chalco | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Chalco | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Chalco | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Chalco | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Chalco | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Chalco | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Chalco | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Chalco | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chalco | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portal | 3.7 miles | 18 | |
| Gretna | 5.6 miles | 19 | |
| Papillion | 6.1 miles | 18 | |
| La Vista | 6.3 miles | 18 | |
| Richfield | 6.6 miles | 18 | |
| Springfield | 7.1 miles | 17 | |
| Fairview (historical) | 7.8 miles | 18 | |
| Rumsey | 8.7 miles | 15 |
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 Chalco | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q963358 | 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 828081. 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.






