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Deweese, Nebraska

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Fairfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68934. The Survey maps it on the Deweese quadrangle. 42 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,690 feet above sea level.

Deweese within Clay County

On record in Deweese

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Deweese fell from 67 to 42 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
201067
202042-25 (-37%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

9 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Deweese between 2009 and 2017, burning about 75 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
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
30 September 2010Debris and open burning15 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use15 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
7 May 2014Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
8 March 2012Debris and open burning20 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 December 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
23 November 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
1 November 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Deweese: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Broderick PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

40 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Deweese in 40 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 22 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 4 heavy rain, 1 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
May 2025HailDeweese$1,000,000Quarter to ping pong ball size hail was reported.
May 2012HailDeweese$200,000Hail up to the size of hen eggs resulted in tree damage around the area.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindDeweese$200,000no account filed
May 2023HailDeweese$100,000Hail up to the size of golf balls was reported along this path.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindDeweese$75,000Wind gusts estimated near 70 mph, combined with an unknown size of hail, resulted in crop damage to at least 3 fields approximately 1 mile west of the Deweese spur off of Highway 14 and 1 mile north of the county line.
May 2012HailDeweese$75,000no account filed
May 2024Thunderstorm WindDeweese$25,000Wind gusts were estimated to be between 60 and 70 MPH along this path. Minor damage to a barn was reported approximately five miles east-southeast of Pauline.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindDeweese$25,000no account filed
July 2005HailDeweese$25,000no account filed
July 2006HailDeweese$20,000no account filed
May 2011FloodDeweese$15,000Storm total rainfall accumulations of 2 to 5 inches were reported across the area. Water covered a few county roads, and the intersection of Highways 14 and 6 also had a small area briefly covered. Lowland flooding was also reported.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindDeweese$5,000Some tree branches were downed in Deweese, with power outages also reported.
June 2007HailDeweese$5,000no account filed
July 2023Thunderstorm WindDeweese$2,000Peak wind gusts in the area included 66 MPH, measured by a mesonet station located three miles west of Edgar, and 59 MPH, measured by a mesonet station located two miles north of Edgar. Some minor tree damage was reported in Edgar. Emergency management estimated wind gusts near 60 mPH in Deweese.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindDeweese-There were a handful of wind gust estimates near 60 MPH along this path.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindDeweese-Wind gusts estimated to be near 60 MPH combined with heavy rain resulted in near-zero visibility.
April 2023HailDeweese-Hail ranging in size from quarters to golf balls was reported along and near this path.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindDeweese-A wind gust of 59 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located two miles north-northeast of Deweese.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindDeweese-Wind gusts estimated to be near 60 MPH resulted in power outages in Deweese.
June 2018HailDeweese-Nickel size hail fell along a swath from Deweese to Highway 14.
May 2014Tornado (EF0)Deweese-This tornado was photographed by a local resident. While the condensation funnel is not on the ground, the photos suggest the wind field likely reached the ground for a short time. The time and location were determined from the report and radar data. No damage was reported with this tornado.
October 2013Heavy RainDeweese-A rain total of 4.10 inches fell.
June 2012Heavy RainDeweese-Rain began at about 440 pm CDT. A rain total of 3.00 inches occurred with heavy rain ongoing at the time of this report at 750 CDT.
June 2012Heavy RainDeweese-Rain total of 4.50 inches for the past 24 hours. Report comes from the Nebraska Rainfall Assessment and Information Network. The rain began during the late afternoon on June 14th, with the last round of rain ending during the early morning hours of June 15th.
May 2011Heavy RainDeweese-Storm total rainfall of 4.14 inches was reported by a NeRAIN observer.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindDeweese-Wind gusts were estimated at 70 MPH. Tree limbs up to 6 inches in diameter were knocked down, as well as 3 power poles in Deweese.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindDeweese-Tree limbs up to 9 inches in diameter knocked down.
April 2022HailDeweese-no account filed
April 2022HailDeweese-no account filed
August 2020HailDeweese-no account filed
April 2019HailDeweese-no account filed
June 2018HailDeweese-no account filed
June 2017HailDeweese-no account filed
April 2016HailDeweese-no account filed
May 2012HailDeweese-no account filed
June 2012HailDeweese-no account filed
July 2010HailDeweese-no account filed
June 2009HailDeweese-no account filed
May 2003HailDeweese-no account filed
July 2002HailDeweese-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Fairfield5.6 miles11
Spring Ranch (historical)6.2 miles11
Anan8.1 miles11
Edgar8.9 miles12
Glenvil12.0 miles13
Clay Center12.3 miles12
Ong16.3 miles12
Verona16.5 miles15

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 DeweeseAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2692034The 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 828702. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.