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Darr, Nebraska

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Coyote precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69130. The Survey maps it on the Cozad quadrangle. It stands 2,451 feet above sea level.

Darr within Dawson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

41 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Darr between 2007 and 2018, burning about 106 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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 burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

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
25 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
10 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
10 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
1 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
4 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
28 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
28 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use10 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
1 August 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dawson County

Storms near this place

25 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Darr in 25 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 15 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2023Tornado (EF1)Darr$2,000,000A tornado developed within a line of thunderstorms northwest of Johnson Lake in far southern Dawson county just before 11:00 PM on Friday, May 5th. The tornado appeared to begin a couple miles northwest of the toppled three irrigation pivots before hitting the Lakeview Acres area on the northwest side of the lake. At least two large storage sheds were totally destroyed in that area. There were several instances of damage in the area, such as trees, smaller buildings, windows and some roof damage,|including two 2x4 stud driven into the roof of one home. The tornado traversed east across the lake and did significant damage to several homes on the east side of the lake right along the Gosper county line. Along the shore line, at least three homes in a row had all or part of a covered porch blown apart, and one home had a large section of its roof torn off. Another flat roof cabin had its entire roof torn off. A few power poles were snapped. Tree damage was common in this general area. The tornado moved east and upset an irrigation pivot and peeled back some metal roofing from a large building just east of the lake. The tornado likely dissipated east of County Road 428. The |maximum wind speed was estimated to be 95 MPH based upon the residential roof damage and the storage building being destroyed. The path was just under 5 miles long and the width was estimated to be 80 yards.
October 2000Tornado (F2)Darr$125,000no account filed
September 2023HailDarr$100,000Hail up to the size of baseballs was reported in the area.
July 2024HailDarr$100,000no account filed
May 2014HailDarr$50,000Hail was reported at the intersection of Roads 755 and 422.
May 2008Flash FloodDarr$50,000Thunderstorms rolled across the same area of southern Dawson County during the evening hours and dumped several inches of rain. This caused many roads and small creeks to quickly flood.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindDarr$40,000no account filed
June 2011HailDarr$15,000The hail covered the ground.
June 2011HailDarr$15,000Hail lasted for at least 5 minutes.
July 2000HailDarr$10,000no account filed
July 2020Thunderstorm WindDarr$5,000A metal outbuilding was damaged near Darr.
August 2007HailDarr$5,000The wind blew up to 60 mph with the hail.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindDarr-A wind gust of 61 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located five miles northwest of Lexington.
November 2016HailDarr-Hail was reported by a truck driver on Interstate 80 near mile marker 230.
August 2014HailDarr-This report, along with a photo, was received on Facebook.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindDarr-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
May 1994Thunderstorm WindDarr-Thunderstorm winds blew down tree branches which took down power lines and caused a power outage.
May 2025HailDarr-no account filed
April 2022HailDarr-no account filed
June 2022HailDarr-no account filed
June 2011HailDarr-no account filed
October 2007HailDarr-no account filed
October 2007HailDarr-no account filed
October 2000Funnel CloudDarr-no account filed
August 1999Thunderstorm WindDarr-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dawson 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
Cozad6.1 miles16
Lexington8.0 miles17
Willow Island11.0 miles10
Buffalo11.9 miles16
Josselyn14.6 miles17
Gothenburg16.5 miles11
Eddyville19.0 miles10
Overton19.2 miles17

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 DarrAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5224210The 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 828579. 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.