Davey, Nebraska
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Rock Creek precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68336. The Survey maps it on the Davey quadrangle. 135 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,250 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresDavey fell from 154 to 135 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 | 154 | |
| 2020 | 135 | -19 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 15 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.
- 1897 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Davey quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
29 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Davey between 2005 and 2020, burning about 531 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 | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 30 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 20 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 15 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 4 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 3 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 12 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 4 July 2012 | Fireworks | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 24 July 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
28 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Davey in 28 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 18 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2014 | Flood | Davey | $1,000 | Heavy rain caused Rock Creek to flood near and downstream of the Ceresco area. The creek reached a crest a little over 24 feet in the morning of June 4, flood stage is 22 feet. The flooding mainly impacted farmland along the stream. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Davey | - | NWS employee report of hail estimated up to 1 in diameter. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Davey | - | Personal weather station measured wind gust of 61 mph along the outflow boundary of a thunderstorm. |
| April 2024 | Hail | Davey | - | The office received a public report of tennis ball sized hail just to the east of Davey. The time of this event was estimated based on radar. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Davey | - | Public reported 1.25-inch hail. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Davey | - | Public reported 1 inch hail. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Davey | - | Public reported large tree branches down accompanied by tennis ball size hail. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Davey | - | Public reported 2.5 inch hail accompanied with strong winds. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Davey | - | Public reported 1.75 inch hail. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Davey | - | Mping reported for 1 inch tree limb damage. |
| September 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Davey | - | High winds caused quite a bit of tree damage, and about half of a roof of an old barn was torn off. |
| September 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Davey | - | Downburst winds downed trees, tore the roof off a barn and destroyed another shed. The damage started 3 miles northwest of Davey and ended about 1 1/4 miles north of Davey. The width of the damage swath was about 2 1/2 miles. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Davey | - | Hail covering the ground was reported in Davey, some up to 3/4 of an inch in diameter. |
| May 2005 | Hail | Davey | - | Hail up to golf ball size was reported from around 6 miles west northwest of Davey to 6 miles east southeast of town. |
| June 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Davey | - | This brief tornado touched down at the same time another one was tracking a few miles to the east. This tornado did some tree damage and was caught on film by storm chasers. |
| June 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Davey | - | This tornado touched down at the same time another one touched down briefly a few miles to the west. This tornado did some tree and farm outbuilding damage over its 2 mile track and was caught on film by storm chasers. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Davey | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at around 60 mph broke off some tree limbs near Davey. |
| June 1999 | Flash Flood | Davey | - | Flash flooding over highway 77 northeast of Davey. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Davey | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Davey | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Davey | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Davey | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Davey | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Davey | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Davey | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Davey | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Davey | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Davey | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arbor | 6.4 miles | 15 | |
| Raymond | 6.5 miles | 15 | |
| Agnew | 8.1 miles | 12 | |
| Waverly | 8.8 miles | 15 | |
| Marian Center | 8.9 miles | 15 | |
| Mark IV Estates | 9.2 miles | 16 | |
| Woodlawn | 9.5 miles | 15 | |
| Havelock | 9.6 miles | 16 |
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 Davey | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2691236 | 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 828586. 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.





