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De Witt, Nebraska

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in De Witt precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68341. The Survey maps it on the Wilber quadrangle. 530 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,289 feet above sea level.

De Witt within Saline County

Population over time

2 figures

De Witt grew from 513 to 530 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
2010513
2020530+17 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

2 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of De Witt between 2003 and 2004, burning about 4 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 burning2

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
29 March 2003Debris and open burning3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
30 December 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Saline County

Storms near this place

33 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names De Witt in 33 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 21 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 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 2015FloodDe Witt$500,000This was the second significant flood of June along Turkey Creek, and the third of the year. The river crested over 4 feet above flood stage, and although briefly feel below flood stage on the 13th, additional heavy rain on the 14th allowed the creek to stay above flood stage until the 18th. Significant flooding of row crops in the flood plain was observed from Wilbur downstream to De Witt where some structures near town were again flooded.
October 2008FloodDe Witt$10,000Rainfall of 2 to 3 inches fell over much of the Turkey Creek basin on October 21 and October 22. The rain caused Turkey Creek to flood from near DeWitt to near and upstream of Wilber. Turkey Creek near Wilber reached its first crest of around 12.7 feet during the late morning hours of October 23. Due to heavy rains that fell on the 21st and 22nd across the upper reaches of the basin, the creek remained near that elevated level through mid afternoon on the 26th. Flood stage is 11 feet. Although a few county roads were flooded, the flooding mainly affected agricultural farmland.
May 2011FloodDe Witt$1,000Rainfall of around 2 to 3 inches fell across a large part of the Turkey Creek basin in the evening and overnight hours of 5/19 and 5/20. This water eventually caused Turkey Creek to flood in the Wilber area. The creek crested a little over 12 feet in the morning of 5/21, flood stage near Wilber is 11 feet. The flooding affected mainly agricultural lowlands along the river but a few county roads were also flooded.
May 2022HailDe Witt-Public reported 2.5 inch hail.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindDe Witt-A utility company reported tree limbs down in De Witt.
June 2020HailDe Witt-Trained spotter reported 1 inch hail.
August 2015HailDe Witt-Spotter reports in town indicated hail ranged from quarter to golf ball size.
June 2009HailDe Witt-Hail 1 inch in diameter fell for several minutes in the De Witt area. The hail was accompanied by 1.25 inches of rain in 40 minutes.
June 2009HailDe Witt-Quarter-size hail was observed a little south of De Witt. An unsubstantiated report of 2.5 inch hail was also received in the area.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindDe Witt-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 to 70 mph caused some tree damage in De Witt.
July 2008FloodDe Witt-Rainfall of at least 2 to 4 inches fell over part of the Turkey Creek basin near Wilber during the morning hours of July 5th. The heavy rain caused Turkey Creek near Wilber to flood for a little over a day beginning on July 6th. The creek near Wilber reached a crest of around 15 feet, flood stage is 11 feet, around 1015am CDT on July 7th. The creek near Wilber was above flood stage from around 615pm on the 6th until 1030pm on the 7th. The flooding affected mainly river bottom-lands, but some crops and a few county roads were flooded for a while.
March 2006Thunderstorm WindDe Witt-Thunderstorm wind gusts caused roof damage to outbuildings near town.
March 2006HailDe Witt-Covered the ground.
June 2005HailDe Witt-Hail up to golfball size caused damage to a number of vehicles in town. There was also minor to moderate tree and crop damage around town according to emergency management.
November 2005HailDe Witt-Pea size hail covered the ground, with a few hailstones 3/4 inch in diameter. The hail lasted around 10 minutes.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindDe Witt-See narrative below.
September 2004Thunderstorm WindDe Witt-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph caused shed damage and minor house damage in town.
October 2002HailDe Witt-Hail up to 1 inch in diameter was reported from Wilber through the De Witt areas.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindDe Witt-Thunderstorm winds estimated around 60 mph by emergency management downed several large limbs, one large tree and several power lines in town.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindDe Witt-Thunderstorm winds damaged a garage and snapped a 10-12 inch tree off. Two power poles were also downed.
April 2017HailDe Witt-no account filed
April 2016HailDe Witt-no account filed
May 2013HailDe Witt-no account filed
March 2006HailDe Witt-no account filed
March 2006HailDe Witt-no account filed
June 2005HailDe Witt-no account filed
June 2004HailDe Witt-no account filed
August 2004HailDe Witt-no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindDe Witt-no account filed
April 2001HailDe Witt-no account filed
August 2000HailDe Witt-no account filed
June 1999HailDe Witt-no account filed
May 1996HailDe Witt-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Saline 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
Wilber6.4 miles11
Swanton8.4 miles10
Shestak12.2 miles15
Western14.6 miles10
Pleasant Hill15.8 miles14
Crete16.3 miles15
Berks18.3 miles15
Dorchester20.2 miles14

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 De WittAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2454171The 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 828616. 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.