Crab Orchard, Nebraska
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Western precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68332. It stands on Laflins Branch. The Survey maps it on the Crab Orchard quadrangle. 46 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,286 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCrab Orchard grew from 38 to 46 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 | 38 | |
| 2020 | 46 | +8 (+21%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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 Lincoln quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Crab Orchard quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Beatrice quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Crab Orchard between 2009 and 2011, burning about 18 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 | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 June 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 29 April 2011 | Debris and open burning | 16 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 25 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 11 March 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 6 November 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crab Orchard in 9 storm reports between 2000 and 2015: 6 hail, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crab Orchard | $20,000 | Winds in excess of 70 mph tore the shingles off roofs and downed numerous tree limbs and power lines closing roads around Crab Orchard. Two grain bins were blown off their foundation and 2 vehicles were damaged when trees were toppled onto them. The wind was accompanied by small hail which accumulated up to 2 inches deep and many corn and soybean fields received extensive damage. The Johnson County Farm Service Agency reported that approximately 32,000 acres of row crop were affected by the storm. |
| September 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crab Orchard | - | The spotter reported that two large trees were blown down in town. The winds were estimated to be 60 mph or more. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Crab Orchard | - | Hail up to golf ball-size or even larger was driven by thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at least at 60 mph which caused considerable damage to crops along with some severe house and vehicle damage from southwest of Sterling to near Elk Creek. There were some reports of hail up to 5 inches in diameter near Elk Creek. The damage path was visible on satellite pictures and was around 10 miles wide across Johnson county. The damage started in Gage county and ended in Richardson county. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crab Orchard | - | Hail up to golf ball-size was driven by thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at least at 60 mph which caused considerable damage to crops along with some house and vehicle damage from southwest of Sterling to near Elk Creek. The damage path was visible on satellite pictures and was around 10 miles wide across Johnson county. The damage started in Gage county and ended in Richardson county. |
| September 2015 | Hail | Crab Orchard | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Crab Orchard | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Crab Orchard | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Crab Orchard | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Crab Orchard | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vesta | 4.7 miles | 10 | |
| Sterling | 8.9 miles | 10 | |
| Saint Mary | 9.3 miles | 10 | |
| Tecumseh | 12.2 miles | 10 | |
| Helena (historical) | 14.6 miles | 13 | |
| Elk Creek | 15.9 miles | 10 | |
| Graf (historical) | 17.4 miles | 10 | |
| Cook | 18.2 miles | 13 |
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 Crab Orchard | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2300871 | 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 828435. 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.




