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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.

Daykin within Jefferson County

Population over time

2 figures

Daykin 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.

YearPeople Change
2010166
2020153-13 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

7 since 2008

Regional 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 burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
3 June 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
19 April 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
7 March 2015Debris and open burning4.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
24 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
14 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined136 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
13 March 2018Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
13 November 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

40 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2014Tornado (EF1)Daykin1 hurtThis 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 2015Flash FloodDaykin$500,000The 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 2004Tornado (F1)Daykin$220,000See description below
April 2012Thunderstorm WindDaykin$100,000Thunderstorm 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 2015Flash FloodDaykin$10,000Water was reported over several rural county roads.
May 2015Flash FloodDaykin$10,000Extremely 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 2017Flash FloodDaykin$5,000Heavy rain caused roads to be covered with water between Plymouth and Swanton in Northern Jefferson County.
May 1994HailDaykin$5,000Hail up to quarter-size damaged roofs and 500 acres of crops.
July 2008FloodDaykin$1,000Slow 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 1995HailDaykin$1,000no account filed
July 2023Thunderstorm WindDaykin-Personal weather station measured a peak wind gust of 61 mph.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindDaykin-Personal weather station measured a peak wind gust of 59 mph.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindDaykin-Emergency manager reported a building and grain bins lost roofs into power lines.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindDaykin-Emergency Manager reported 3 center pivots flipped and several large trees down.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindDaykin-Emergency manager reported damage to grain bin and roof.
October 2019Flash FloodDaykin-The county emergency manager reported water flowing over Nebraska Highway 4 due to 3 to 4 inches of rain.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindDaykin-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph blew the door off of a barn west southwest of Daykin.
June 2008HailDaykin-Hail around 3/4 of an inch in diameter was reported from 3 miles west to 1 mile east of Daykin.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindDaykin-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 2004Tornado (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 2004Tornado (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 2004Thunderstorm WindDaykin-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph downed large tree limbs near the Alexandria Lakes State Recreation Area.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindDaykin-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 70 mph by emergency management were accompanied by dime size hail.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindDaykin-Garage blown off its foundation into an alley.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindDaykin-Some tree branches downed.
September 2019HailDaykin-no account filed
April 2017HailDaykin-no account filed
October 2016HailDaykin-no account filed
October 2016HailDaykin-no account filed
June 2013HailDaykin-no account filed
April 2010HailDaykin-no account filed
August 2010HailDaykin-no account filed
July 2008HailDaykin-no account filed
April 2006HailDaykin-no account filed
June 2006HailDaykin-no account filed
July 2006HailDaykin-no account filed
April 2005HailDaykin-no account filed
May 2004HailDaykin-no account filed
May 2001HailDaykin-no account filed
October 1998HailDaykin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Helvey4.5 miles10
Powell7.0 miles10
Bower (historical)7.6 miles10
Meridian (historical)8.1 miles10
Hedrix8.7 miles11
Gladstone11.2 miles10
Fairbury14.2 miles11
Jansen14.8 miles11

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 DaykinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1888631The 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.