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Champion, Nebraska

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Champion-Lamar precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69023. It stands on Davidson Branch. The Survey maps it on the Champion quadrangle. 115 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,271 feet above sea level.

Champion within Chase County

On record in Champion

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Champion grew from 103 to 115 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
2010103
2020115+12 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

14 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Champion between 2014 and 2020, burning about 110 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning3
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
25 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
17 September 2016Natural1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
17 August 2014Natural1.5 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
26 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
14 May 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
1 May 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
8 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
9 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chase County

Storms near this place

60 of 89 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Champion in 89 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 67 hail, 16 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 2 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2008HailChampion$500,000A supercell storm that produced several tornadoes also produced up to tennis ball size hail from Champion to approximately 3 miles south of Champion. The hail broke out hundreds of windows in homes and vehicles, tore holes in metal siding on homes, severely damaged roofs on buildings and vehicle bodies, and destroyed wheat and corn crops.
June 2007Flash FloodChampion$450,000Nearly stationary thunderstorms produced heavy rainfall of 4 to 10 inches causing water to flow over roadways. The flood waters over-topped the dam at Champion Lake. Water flowed across Highway 6 west of Imperial near Sand Creek and across numerous secondary roads. Highways were closed and travel was discouraged for much of the county. Many secondary roads were washed out.
May 1996HailChampion$100,000no account filed
June 2008Tornado (EF1)Champion$95,000A supercell tornado touched down and overturned 3 pivot irrigation systems, broke off trees and 3 power poles as it moved northeast for less than a mile. The supercell also produced 3 other tornadoes in Chase County.
July 2009HailChampion$70,000A trained storm spotter reported baseball size hail. The hail broke numerous north facing windows and damaged the siding on homes. The hail also severely damaged soybean, corn, and wheat crops southeast of Champion.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindChampion$40,000Large tree limbs were broken, a center pivot irrigation system was overturned, and a house roof was damaged from the intense winds.
June 2008Tornado (EF1)Champion$30,000A supercell spawned a brief tornado touchdown that overturned a pivot irrigation system. This same supercell produced 3 other brief tornadoes in Chase County.
June 2008Tornado (EF0)Champion$25,000A supercell spawned a brief tornado touchdown which destroyed small outbuildings, tore the roof of a garage off and slammed it into the west side of the house, broke a skylight on the house, and damaged the roof of the house. Baseball size hail accompanying the tornado tore holes in the metal siding on the house. This same supercell produced 3 other brief tornadoes in Chase County.
June 2006HailChampion$25,000Hail extensively damaged corn crops and property.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindChampion$12,000Thunderstorm wind blew down several 12 inch diameter trees and several sheds.
May 1998HailChampion$5,000Large hail destroyed up to 2000 acres of wheat.
June 2009HailChampion$5,000no account filed
June 2007HailChampion$5,000no account filed
May 2005HailChampion$4,000no account filed
March 2007HailChampion$3,000no account filed
July 2003HailChampion$3,000no account filed
June 1998HailChampion$2,000no account filed
April 2005HailChampion$1,000no account filed
June 2023Thunderstorm WindChampion-Public estimates a 60 mph wind gust.
July 2022HailChampion-A cooperative weather observer reported golf ball size hail near Champion.
July 2022HailChampion-Public reported quarter size hail near Champion.
July 2022HailChampion-Public reported quarter size hail near Champion.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindChampion-Public estimated 60 mph wind gusts near Champion with tree damage.
July 2022HailChampion-Emergency management reported half dollar size hail near Champion.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindChampion-A cooperative weather observer estimated 60 mph wind gusts.
July 2020HailChampion-Public reported ping pong ball size hail southwest of Champion.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindChampion-Report of 60 mph winds along with dime size hail.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindChampion-Trained Spotter reported strong winds of 60 mph.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindChampion-Large tree split in half.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindChampion-No information available.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindChampion-No damage reported.
August 2017Tornado (EF0)Champion-Landspout briefly touched down in an open field with no damage reported.
October 2017Thunderstorm WindChampion-Reported by law enforcement. No major damage reported.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindChampion-Two large trees uprooted from the wind.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindChampion-Corn crops were destroyed by a combination of 60 MPH winds and pea to half inch diameter hail.
May 2011HailChampion-Hail covered the ground.
June 2011HailChampion-Chase county sheriff reported golf ball to baseball sized hail 2 miles east of Champion.
June 2011HailChampion-Baseball sized hail was reported by the general public 8 miles north northwest of Champion.
June 2011HailChampion-General public reported baseball sized hail 8 miles north northwest of Champion.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindChampion-Strong winds estimated at over 60 mph blew over a twelve foot high tree.
June 2008Flash FloodChampion-Very heavy rain during the early morning hours of June 5th produced flash flooding across western portions of Chase County. Water was reported over numerous county roads from west of Champion to the Colorado border.
July 2004HailChampion-Hail and strong winds combined to damage corn and pinto bean crops.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindChampion-Thunderstorm outflow winds broke off large tree branches.
June 1999HailChampion-Hail was covering the ground.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindChampion-A power pole and lines were blown down. The sparks from the wires caused a small grass fire.
June 2023HailChampion-no account filed
June 2023HailChampion-no account filed
June 2023HailChampion-no account filed
June 2023HailChampion-no account filed
June 2022HailChampion-no account filed
August 2020HailChampion-no account filed
May 2019HailChampion-no account filed
September 2019HailChampion-no account filed
September 2019HailChampion-no account filed
October 2017HailChampion-no account filed
July 2017HailChampion-no account filed
May 2016HailChampion-no account filed
August 2015HailChampion-no account filed
May 2015HailChampion-no account filed
May 2015HailChampion-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chase 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
Crete5.8 miles7
Imperial6.5 miles7
Chase7.6 miles8
Enders11.4 miles7
Lamar14.1 miles8
Wauneta20.3 miles7

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 ChampionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4166346The 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 828088. 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.