Closter, Nebraska

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in North Branch-Shell Creek precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68652. The Survey maps it on the Closter quadrangle.

Closter within Boone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1955 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Closter quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Stanton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Closter between 2009 and 2011, burning about 15 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	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
2 December 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
11 November 2011	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Boone County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Closter in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2023: 3 tornado, 1 hail. 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
May 2023	Tornado (EF1)	Closter	-	A short-lived tornado developed south of Highway 32 and traveled toward the northwest for approximately 1.5 miles. The most intense damage occurred when the tornado destroyed a one-year-old machine shed and deposited the debris a few hundred yards north across the highway. There were also several power poles snapped in this area and a center pivot was flipped farther north, closer to 130th street.
May 2012	Tornado (EF0)	Closter	-	A brief tornado was reported south and east of Elgin by law enforcement. The tornado caused no apparent damage.
May 2012	Tornado (EF0)	Closter	-	A tornado briefly touched down in an open field south of Highway 32 northeast of Albion. The tornado caused no apparent damage.
June 2008	Hail	Closter	-	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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Raeville	8.8 miles	10
Petersburg	10.3 miles	10
Loretto	13.2 miles	10
Albion	14.8 miles	10
Vorhees	16.5 miles	9
Boone	18.0 miles	9
Akron	21.2 miles	11
Saint Edward	21.9 miles	10

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 Closter	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17986549	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 835272. 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.