Danbury, Nebraska
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Beaver precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69026. The Survey maps it on the Danbury quadrangle. 80 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,477 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresDanbury fell from 101 to 80 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 | 101 | |
| 2020 | 80 | -21 (-21%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1954 USGS McCook quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Danbury quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS McCook quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS McCook quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS McCook quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
3 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Danbury between 2003 and 2009, burning about 16 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 | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 March 2009 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 14 March 2003 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 November 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
41 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Danbury in 41 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 28 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Danbury | $79,000 | In Marion, a grain bin was blown over in the SW corner of town, a garage was damaged and several power poles were down. In Danbury, a tree was blown onto a porch, a pivot irrigation system was toppled and tree and mobile home damage was reported west of town. |
| June 1999 | Tornado (F1) | Danbury | $6,500 | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Hail | Danbury | $1,000 | Spotter reported windows broken. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Danbury | - | A trained spotter estimated nickel to a couple quarter size hail stones. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Danbury | - | Nebraska Mesonet site 8 SW Indianola reported the gust. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Danbury | - | Report of crop damage. A field of corn that was hip high was flattened. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Danbury | - | Report received of hail up to pennies in size at location. |
| September 2023 | Hail | Danbury | - | Red Willow County law enforcement relayed a report of windows broken by wind-driven hail in Danbury. |
| September 2023 | Hail | Danbury | - | Report via social media with photo of estimated golf ball size hail in Danbury with second round of storms. |
| September 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Danbury | - | Gust recorded 8ssw of Indianola, NE on a Nebraska state mesonet site. |
| September 2023 | Hail | Danbury | - | Report via social media of constant hail pea to quarter size between 7 to 735 pm CDT with first round of storms through Danbury. |
| September 2023 | Hail | Danbury | - | Trained spotter reported golf ball sized hail in Danbury. |
| August 2021 | Hail | Danbury | - | Spotter reported mostly pea to quarter sized hail with sporadic ping pong ball sized hail mixed in. |
| August 2021 | Hail | Danbury | - | Dime to penny sized hail reported. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Danbury | - | Significant tree damage and unknown number of trees blown down onto Highway 89 between Danbury and Lebanon. This has made the highway impassable. Power lines have also been blown down. |
| July 2015 | Hail | Danbury | - | The hail size grew from penny to quarter size. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Danbury | - | Estimated wind gusts of 40 - 50 MPH. |
| June 2011 | Flash Flood | Danbury | - | Nearly four inches of rain fell over a 90 minute period over parts of Red Willow county, resulting in water running across numerous county roads from south of McCook to north of Danbury. |
| August 2011 | Hail | Danbury | - | Also had 1.75 inch hail occurring at the same time. |
| May 2010 | Hail | Danbury | - | Spotter also reported wind gusts around 50 mph. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Danbury | - | Trees down across road in Danbury. |
| October 2000 | Tornado (F0) | Danbury | - | Cone shaped tornado reported for short time. Path length may have been longer. However, no noticable damage observed. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Danbury | - | no account filed |
| April 2022 | Hail | Danbury | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Danbury | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Danbury | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Danbury | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Danbury | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Danbury | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Danbury | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Danbury | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Danbury | - | no account filed |
| March 2004 | Hail | Danbury | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Danbury | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Danbury | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Danbury | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Danbury | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Danbury | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Danbury | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Danbury | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Danbury | - | 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.
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 Danbury | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2660336 | 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 828564. 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.




