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Curtis, Nebraska

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Curtis City. It lies in ZIP code area 69025. It lies near Well Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Curtis quadrangle. 806 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,572 feet above sea level.

Curtis within Frontier County

Population over time

2 figures

Curtis fell from 939 to 806 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
2010939
2020806-133 (-14%)

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

11 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Curtis between 2007 and 2018, burning about 22 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 burning6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Fireworks1

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
29 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
29 June 2017Fireworks1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
8 May 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
28 May 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
3 March 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
26 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Frontier County

Storms near this place

60 of 80 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Curtis in 80 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 58 hail, 21 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 1997Thunderstorm WindCurtis$300,000Wind and hail broke windows throughout Curtis. A center pivot irrigation system was blown over 2 miles northeast of Curtis.
July 2004HailCurtis$50,000The hail damaged a number of windows and the siding on homes. Window and body damage also occurred to some vehicles.
October 1997Thunderstorm WindCurtis$50,000Thunderstorm winds destroyed a large grain bin.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindCurtis$41,000Thunderstorm winds overturned a center pivot and downed trees.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindCurtis$25,000Thunderstorm wind estimated at 80 MPH caused extensive tree damage.
June 2008HailCurtis$15,000no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindCurtis$15,000no account filed
June 2008HailCurtis$10,000Car windows were broken out by the large hail.
June 2008HailCurtis$6,000A supercell thunderstorm produced baseball size hail that damaged vehicles and broke windows.
April 2008HailCurtis$5,000Two inch diameter hail broke a double paned window at a farmstead 3 miles north northeast of Curtis.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindCurtis$5,000There was significant tree damage from the storm.
August 1999Thunderstorm WindCurtis$5,000Trees were blown down by severe thunderstorm winds.
May 2005HailCurtis$5,000no account filed
May 2005HailCurtis$5,000no account filed
May 2005HailCurtis$5,000no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindCurtis$2,000Thunderstorm winds blew a tool shed 100 feet from foundation.
May 2008HailCurtis$1,500no account filed
August 1999Thunderstorm WindCurtis$1,000Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage.
March 2007HailCurtis$500The hail broke the windshield of a fire truck while storm spotting.
June 2024HailCurtis-Time estimated by radar.
July 2024HailCurtis-Report via social media.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindCurtis-Public reported a thunderstorm wind gust, estimated at 60 MPH, on the east side of Curtis.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindCurtis-A trained spotter estimated wind gusts to 60 mph near Curtis.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindCurtis-Wind gusts estimated at 60 MPH along the leading edge of a line of thunderstorms.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindCurtis-The Frontier Co. E.M. estimated wind speeds up to 60 mph southeast of Curtis.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindCurtis-Public reported nickel size hail and 60 mph wind gusts.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindCurtis-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 70 mph in Curtis.
July 2013HailCurtis-In addition to half dollar sized hail, gusty winds and 0.50 inches of rain fell at this location.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindCurtis-A spotter reported four to eight inch diameter tree branches down.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindCurtis-Thunderstorm wind gusts were measured at 70 mph by a storm chaser.
August 2007Flash FloodCurtis-Heavy rain from a thunderstorm produced 2.93 inches of rain in one hour and just over 3 inches in two hours causing flash flooding of streets.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindCurtis-Large tree branches were broken.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindCurtis-Thunderstorm winds knocked down large tree limbs through town.
May 2024HailCurtis-no account filed
July 2024HailCurtis-no account filed
September 2023HailCurtis-no account filed
June 2022HailCurtis-no account filed
May 2021HailCurtis-no account filed
August 2020HailCurtis-no account filed
July 2018HailCurtis-no account filed
October 2017HailCurtis-no account filed
October 2017HailCurtis-no account filed
September 2016HailCurtis-no account filed
July 2015HailCurtis-no account filed
July 2015HailCurtis-no account filed
July 2015HailCurtis-no account filed
May 2015HailCurtis-no account filed
May 2013HailCurtis-no account filed
May 2013HailCurtis-no account filed
May 2013HailCurtis-no account filed
June 2011HailCurtis-no account filed
May 2010HailCurtis-no account filed
May 2008HailCurtis-no account filed
April 2008HailCurtis-no account filed
April 2008HailCurtis-no account filed
June 2008HailCurtis-no account filed
June 2008HailCurtis-no account filed
May 2008HailCurtis-no account filed
April 2007HailCurtis-no account filed
June 2006HailCurtis-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Frontier 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
Maywood5.9 miles8
Moorefield7.4 miles11
Stockville9.7 miles12
Quick14.9 miles7
Freedom16.2 miles8
Orafino17.7 miles7
Eustis25.9 miles10

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 CurtisAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q952677The 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 828526. 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.