Chambers, Nebraska
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Chambers Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68725. The Survey maps it on the Chambers East quadrangle. 288 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,119 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresChambers grew from 268 to 288 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 | 268 | |
| 2020 | 288 | +20 (+7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1955 USGS O'Neill quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS O'Neill quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1969 USGS O'Neill quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Chambers East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS O'Neill quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS O'Neill quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
4 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Chambers between 2004 and 2015, burning about 27 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 | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 April 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 26 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 26 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 16 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this place
60 of 75 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chambers in 75 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 63 hail, 6 tornado, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chambers | 2 hurt | An inflatable fun jump was overturned by thunderstorm winds which resulted in two injuries. |
| July 1994 | Tornado (F1) | Chambers | $500,000 | Two farmsteads were destroyed and a farmhouse was leveled west of Chambers. |
| August 2000 | Hail | Chambers | $15,000 | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Chambers | $12,000 | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Tornado (F0) | Chambers | $10,000 | Tornado touched down briefly and downed power lines. |
| April 2001 | Tornado (F1) | Chambers | $10,000 | A tornado was reported that damaged some buildings and blew some out buildings over. It also blew down several trees. |
| June 2002 | Hail | Chambers | $8,000 | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Chambers | $6,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Chambers | $5,000 | Large tree limbs blown down. |
| July 2007 | Hail | Chambers | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Chambers | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Chambers | $3,000 | Very strong wind was also reported at the location. |
| March 2005 | Hail | Chambers | $3,000 | no account filed |
| April 2025 | Hail | Chambers | - | Report received via social media. |
| August 2024 | Hail | Chambers | - | Time was estimated from radar. |
| May 2023 | Tornado (EF2) | Chambers | - | This tornado touched down in far northern Wheeler County, quickly strengthening and caused extensive damage to shelter belts. Debarking was observed in trees along the county line. This tornado continued northwestward into Holt County, damaging additional trees, farm outbuildings, and pivot systems. |
| July 2019 | Hail | Chambers | - | Trained weather spotter reported quarter size hail. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Chambers | - | Penny sized hail covered the ground. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chambers | - | Local Law Enforcement reported power outages. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chambers | - | Local Fire and Rescue estimated with to 61 knots. |
| August 2009 | Flash Flood | Chambers | - | Flooding was reported to the south of Chambers with a barricade placed on the county road running south of town. The public reported up to 3.50 inches of rainfall south of town. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Chambers | - | Wind driven hail cut up corn leaves. |
| August 2007 | Hail | Chambers | - | The hail covered the ground. |
| April 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Chambers | - | The tornado made a brief touchdown in open rangeland resulting in no damage. |
| July 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Chambers | - | The tornado touched down 3 miles south of Chambers and preceeded slowly southeast. No damage was reported as the tornado tracked to near Highway 281, 6 miles southeast of Chambers, before lifting. |
| October 1998 | Funnel Cloud | Chambers | - | Two brief funnel clouds were reported by the public. |
| September 2019 | Hail | Chambers | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Chambers | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Chambers | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Chambers | - | no account filed |
| September 2015 | Hail | Chambers | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Chambers | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Chambers | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Chambers | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Chambers | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Chambers | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Chambers | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Chambers | - | no account filed |
| March 2009 | Hail | Chambers | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Chambers | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Chambers | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Chambers | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Chambers | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Chambers | - | no account filed |
| September 2008 | Hail | Chambers | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Chambers | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Chambers | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Chambers | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chambers | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Chambers | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Chambers | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Chambers | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Chambers | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Chambers | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Chambers | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Chambers | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Chambers | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Chambers | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Chambers | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Chambers | - | 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.
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 Chambers | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1917886 | 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 828086. 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.





