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Creston, Nebraska

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Creston Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68631. The Survey maps it on the Creston quadrangle. 181 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,624 feet above sea level.

Creston within Platte County

On record in Creston

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

Creston fell from 203 to 181 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
2010203
2020181-22 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Creston in 2007, burning under an acre 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
3 March 2007Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Platte County

Storms near this place

47 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Creston in 47 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 20 hail, 19 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 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
May 2024Flash FloodCreston$50,000The office received a public report of water and debris flowing over Monastery Road in northeast Platte County. About an hour after this report, the office received another public report that a bridge near Monroe was closed due to water flowing over the top of it and over the hood of a full-sized pickup truck.
June 2024Flash FloodCreston$10,000A trained spotter reported flood waters over county roads from overnight thunderstorms.
June 2024FloodCreston$5,000The office received a public report of water still over the southbound lane of Highway 81 in northeastern Platte County. This is a continuation of flash flooding that occurred from overnight thunderstorms the night prior.
July 1996Thunderstorm WindCreston$5,000no account filed
March 2025Thunderstorm WindCreston-Personal weather station measured 59 mph wind gust.
September 2025HailCreston-Public report of hail estimated up to 0.75 inches in diameter. Report received via mPING.
April 2024Funnel CloudCreston-The Platte County EM reported numerous funnel clouds extending nearly to the ground. No debris was reported on the ground. These funnels lasted for several minutes.
April 2024Tornado (EF0)Creston-A tornado began just west of 190th Avenue and about a half mile north of 445th Street where it flipped a cattle shed. The tornado then tracked toward the northwest, where it impacted another farm, flipping over a small outbuilding and removing roofing material of another outbuilding. A large cedar tree was also split down the middle. From this point, the tornado tracked north and then eventually east. Another farm was impacted near 190th Avenue and 475th Street where a detached garage had the roof removed and walls collapsed. Another cattle shed was overturned near the endpoint of the tornado near 475th Street and 182nd Avenue. There were several videos of this tornado which indicate an interesting evolution. It seemed to begin as the parent storm ingested rotation from a weak frontal boundary extending southeast of the storm, then pulled the tornado northwest closer to the storm updraft, and then eventually it turned to move northeast in the same direction as the storm and eventually pushed a bit more toward the east as a cool gust pushed out and dissipated the tornado. While the funnel cloud was rather wide at times, the actual contact with the ground was quite narrow, as evidenced by the narrow damage track.
April 2024Tornado (EF1)Creston-Trained spotters reported that the tornado initially touched down just northwest of the intersection of 370th Street and 175th Avenue. It tracked north-northeast where it flipped a center pivot irrigation system. The tornado was intermittent as it tracked across 175th Avenue and toward Loseke Creek, becoming more persistent again as it reached and crossed Loseke Creek. At this point, it impacted a homestead where it snapped trees, blew windows out of a home, and caused significant damage to a barn roof. The tornado continued north where there was minor damage to fencing and an electrical pole at a feedlot, and continued to weaken and become intermittent to where the trained spotters reported that the ground circulation ended, just southwest of 160th Avenue and 445th Street. Peak winds in this tornado were estimated to be 100 miles per hour, with an average width of 35 yards.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindCreston-The office received a report of a measured 60 miles per hour wind gust from the public.
July 2023HailCreston-Public reported 1.25-inch hail.
May 2023HailCreston-Trained spotter reported 1.75-inch hail.
October 2023Thunderstorm WindCreston-Received a public report of the top of a tree broken off. The time of the report was estimated by radar.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindCreston-Public estimated wind gusts near 80 mph and reported several large tree branches down.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindCreston-Personal weather station measured a peak wind gust of 64 mph.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindCreston-Personal weather station measured a peak wind gust of 68 mph.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindCreston-Trained spotter estimated peak wind gusts at 60 mph.
October 2020HailCreston-Public reported 1.25 inch hail.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindCreston-Public personal weather station reported winds of 68 MPH.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindCreston-A person estimated 70 mph winds 5 miles south southeast of Creston.
June 2018FloodCreston-Heavy rainfall of 4 to 6 1/2 inches caused the fork of Loseke Creek to go over its banks in Platte County.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindCreston-A storm spotter estimated 60 mph winds about 4 miles southeast of Creston.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindCreston-A person estimated 70 mph winds 5 miles south southeast of Creston.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindCreston-Large tree limbs were broken about 4 miles southeast of Creston.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindCreston-A few trees were snapped by damaging winds.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindCreston-Roof of a building was damaged by damaging winds.
August 2015HailCreston-Mostly smaller hail, but a few stones up to golf ball size.
August 2015HailCreston-The COOP Observer reported hail around 1 inch in diameter, but the public reported hail up to golf ball size.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindCreston-In the city of Creston there was tree and power line damage, including at least one tree that fell on a house.
February 2009HailCreston-Hail up to penny size was reported.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindCreston-Thunderstorm wind gusts of 70 mph were estimated by the public south of Creston. The winds were accompanied by 3/4 inch hail.
April 2007HailCreston-The hail was accompanied by thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindCreston-The wind was accompanied by dime size hail.
May 2000Tornado (F0)Creston-Brief touchdown of a tornado was observed by law enforcement official near Creston. The official noted that the tornado then lifted with a funnel observed after that for around 10 to 20 minutes longer.
June 2018HailCreston-no account filed
August 2015HailCreston-no account filed
July 2014HailCreston-no account filed
June 2010HailCreston-no account filed
May 2008HailCreston-no account filed
August 2007HailCreston-no account filed
September 2005HailCreston-no account filed
August 2004HailCreston-no account filed
July 2003HailCreston-no account filed
July 2003HailCreston-no account filed
June 1999HailCreston-no account filed
May 1998HailCreston-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindCreston-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Platte 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
Humphrey6.5 miles9
Tarnov9.7 miles9
Cornlea11.0 miles9
Platte Center13.4 miles8
Saint Bernard14.2 miles9
Sheldonville17.1 miles13
Lindsay17.6 miles9
College View Park18.1 miles13

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 CrestonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1925593The 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 828456. 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.