BlockCushing, Nebraska
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Spring Creek precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68873. The Survey maps it on the Cushing quadrangle. 37 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,798 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCushing grew from 32 to 37 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 | 32 | |
| 2020 | 37 | +5 (+16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 14 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.
- 1899 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Broken Bow quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Cushing quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Broken Bow quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
16 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cushing in 16 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 8 hail, 3 funnel cloud, 2 tornado, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2019 | Flood | Cushing | $3,000,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Cushing | $250,000 | A tornado set down west of Cushing and traveled eastward. It damaged or destroyed a few outbuildings and damaged one home. |
| June 1997 | Hail | Cushing | $80,000 | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Tornado (EF1) | Cushing | $25,000 | This EF1 rated tornado started in extreme eastern Howard County and ended in extreme southern Nance County, with most of its time spent in Merrick County north-northeast of Palmer. There were several spots of tree damage along its roughly 7 mile path. The most significant damage was to an outbuilding and large cottonwood trees northeast of Palmer. The estimated peak wind speed of 95 MPH was estimated based upon the damage at this particular farmstead. |
| November 2012 | Hail | Cushing | $10,000 | Extensive roof and siding damage was reported. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Cushing | - | An NeRAIN observer commented that hail up to 1 inch diameter lasted about 20 minutes. |
| September 2016 | Heavy Rain | Cushing | - | Rainfall total from the past 24 hours was 3.80 inches. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Cushing | - | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Hail | Cushing | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Cushing | - | no account filed |
| March 2004 | Hail | Cushing | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Funnel Cloud | Cushing | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Funnel Cloud | Cushing | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cushing | - | no account filed |
| October 2001 | Funnel Cloud | Cushing | - | no account filed |
| October 2000 | Hail | Cushing | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Paul | 7.4 miles | 14 | |
| Elba | 10.6 miles | 11 | |
| Midway | 11.5 miles | 12 | |
| Cotesfield | 14.6 miles | 12 | |
| Saint Libory | 14.9 miles | 13 | |
| Farwell | 14.9 miles | 12 | |
| Dannebrog | 15.5 miles | 12 | |
| Nysted | 17.2 miles | 12 |
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 Cushing | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3189941 | 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 828531. 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.
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.