Daykin, Nebraska
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Eureka precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68338. The Survey maps it on the Daykin quadrangle. 153 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,532 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresDaykin fell from 166 to 153 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 | 166 | |
| 2020 | 153 | -13 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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.
- 1955 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Daykin quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Fairbury quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
7 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Daykin between 2008 and 2020, burning about 146 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 | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 June 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 19 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 24 March 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 14 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 136 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 13 March 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 13 November 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
40 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Daykin in 40 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 18 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 4 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2014 | Tornado (EF1) | Daykin | 1 hurt | This tornado developed in open country southeast of Daykin and traveled northeast into Saline county with a total track of 15.5 miles (5.8 miles in Jefferson county). |
| May 2015 | Flash Flood | Daykin | $500,000 | The emergency manager reported that flash flooding continued as heavy rainfall continued during the overnight. The flooding destroyed a bridge along state highway 15 in northern Jefferson County. |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F1) | Daykin | $220,000 | See description below |
| April 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Daykin | $100,000 | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph downed large trees in Daykin which caused some house damage and a welcome sign into town was knocked over. Several center pivots were flipped southwest of town and a private airplane hanger and other tree damage was noted southwest of town as well. |
| June 2015 | Flash Flood | Daykin | $10,000 | Water was reported over several rural county roads. |
| May 2015 | Flash Flood | Daykin | $10,000 | Extremely heavy rainfall of 5 to 10 inches occurred across the northern half of Jefferson County. This led to flash flooding across a large part of the northern half of the county with numerous road closures reported. |
| June 2017 | Flash Flood | Daykin | $5,000 | Heavy rain caused roads to be covered with water between Plymouth and Swanton in Northern Jefferson County. |
| May 1994 | Hail | Daykin | $5,000 | Hail up to quarter-size damaged roofs and 500 acres of crops. |
| July 2008 | Flood | Daykin | $1,000 | Slow moving thunderstorms dropped 2 to 3 inches of rain over a small area of western Jefferson county in a two hour period. The heavy rain caused some field and ditch runoff to flood across a few county roads east of Daykin, forcing the closure of one. The flooding mainly just washed some gravel off the road and briefly covered crops in low areas. |
| May 1995 | Hail | Daykin | $1,000 | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Daykin | - | Personal weather station measured a peak wind gust of 61 mph. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Daykin | - | Personal weather station measured a peak wind gust of 59 mph. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Daykin | - | Emergency manager reported a building and grain bins lost roofs into power lines. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Daykin | - | Emergency Manager reported 3 center pivots flipped and several large trees down. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Daykin | - | Emergency manager reported damage to grain bin and roof. |
| October 2019 | Flash Flood | Daykin | - | The county emergency manager reported water flowing over Nebraska Highway 4 due to 3 to 4 inches of rain. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Daykin | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph blew the door off of a barn west southwest of Daykin. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Daykin | - | Hail around 3/4 of an inch in diameter was reported from 3 miles west to 1 mile east of Daykin. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Daykin | - | Thunderstorm winds were estimated to have reached close to 60 mph by the public. The winds downed a few tree limbs up to 5 to 6 feet long and 2 inches in diameter. |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F1) | Daykin | - | A tornado overturned several irrigation pivots and grain bins and also did some minor house damage from southwest through just east of Daykin. |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Daykin | - | A small tornado touched down at the same time the much larger and longer lived Hallam tornado was occurring several miles to the west. This tornado was on the ground for around 2 miles and caused some minor damage to farm outbuildings. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Daykin | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph downed large tree limbs near the Alexandria Lakes State Recreation Area. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Daykin | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 70 mph by emergency management were accompanied by dime size hail. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Daykin | - | Garage blown off its foundation into an alley. |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Daykin | - | Some tree branches downed. |
| September 2019 | Hail | Daykin | - | no account filed |
| April 2017 | Hail | Daykin | - | no account filed |
| October 2016 | Hail | Daykin | - | no account filed |
| October 2016 | Hail | Daykin | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Daykin | - | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Hail | Daykin | - | no account filed |
| August 2010 | Hail | Daykin | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Daykin | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Daykin | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Daykin | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Daykin | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Daykin | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Daykin | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Daykin | - | no account filed |
| October 1998 | Hail | Daykin | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Helvey | 4.5 miles | 10 | |
| Powell | 7.0 miles | 10 | |
| Bower (historical) | 7.6 miles | 10 | |
| Meridian (historical) | 8.1 miles | 10 | |
| Hedrix | 8.7 miles | 11 | |
| Gladstone | 11.2 miles | 10 | |
| Fairbury | 14.2 miles | 11 | |
| Jansen | 14.8 miles | 11 |
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 Daykin | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1888631 | 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 828609. 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.




