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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.

Davey within Lancaster County

Population over time

2 figures

Davey 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.

YearPeople Change
2010154
2020135-19 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

29 since 2005

Regional 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 burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Fireworks2
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
28 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use30 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
4 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
3 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
12 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
4 July 2012Fireworksunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
24 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lancaster County

Storms near this place

28 since 1999

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2014FloodDavey$1,000Heavy 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 2025HailDavey-NWS employee report of hail estimated up to 1 in diameter.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindDavey-Personal weather station measured wind gust of 61 mph along the outflow boundary of a thunderstorm.
April 2024HailDavey-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 2023HailDavey-Public reported 1.25-inch hail.
June 2022HailDavey-Public reported 1 inch hail.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindDavey-Public reported large tree branches down accompanied by tennis ball size hail.
June 2022HailDavey-Public reported 2.5 inch hail accompanied with strong winds.
May 2022HailDavey-Public reported 1.75 inch hail.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindDavey-Mping reported for 1 inch tree limb damage.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindDavey-High winds caused quite a bit of tree damage, and about half of a roof of an old barn was torn off.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindDavey-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 2008HailDavey-Hail covering the ground was reported in Davey, some up to 3/4 of an inch in diameter.
May 2005HailDavey-Hail up to golf ball size was reported from around 6 miles west northwest of Davey to 6 miles east southeast of town.
June 2004Tornado (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 2004Tornado (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 2003Thunderstorm WindDavey-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at around 60 mph broke off some tree limbs near Davey.
June 1999Flash FloodDavey-Flash flooding over highway 77 northeast of Davey.
June 2014HailDavey-no account filed
June 2014HailDavey-no account filed
May 2011HailDavey-no account filed
May 2007HailDavey-no account filed
March 2006HailDavey-no account filed
April 2006HailDavey-no account filed
August 2005HailDavey-no account filed
June 2004HailDavey-no account filed
June 2003HailDavey-no account filed
June 2002HailDavey-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lancaster 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
Arbor6.4 miles15
Raymond6.5 miles15
Agnew8.1 miles12
Waverly8.8 miles15
Marian Center8.9 miles15
Mark IV Estates9.2 miles16
Woodlawn9.5 miles15
Havelock9.6 miles16

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 DaveyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2691236The 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.