Diller, Nebraska
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Pleasant precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68342. It stands on Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Diller quadrangle. 247 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,355 feet above sea level.
On record in Diller
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 3 records
Colman Houselisted 1982
Anna C. Diller Opera Houselisted 1988- People's State Banklisted 1984
Population over time
2 figuresDiller fell from 260 to 247 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 | 260 | |
| 2020 | 247 | -13 (-5%) |
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
- 1970 USGS Diller quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Beatrice quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
15 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Diller between 2009 and 2014, burning about 137 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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 | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 26 August 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 6 May 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 20 May 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 29 April 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 2 April 2011 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 2 April 2011 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 4 March 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | 100 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
28 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Diller in 28 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 21 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2010 | Tornado (EF1) | Diller | $650,000 | An Assessment team from the NWS determined that a tornado tracked around 3 miles west through northwest of the Diller area. The damage path was around 300 yards at its widest. Trees and farm outbuildings were damaged along its path and 35 large power poles were snapped. A house in the area also sustained major damage to the roof and windows and the upper floor was partially shifted from the lower floor and a wall was bowed outward and garage destroyed. A center irrigation pivot was damaged at the tornadoes lifting point. |
| May 2007 | Flash Flood | Diller | $75,000 | Rainfall of 4 to 6 inches produced flash flooding across parts of Jefferson county during the early morning hours of May 6th, 2007. One area of flooding was noted along Highway 103 near Diller where water was flowing across the road. At least 1 county road bridge and a number of culverts were washed out in the area. |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Diller | $50,000 | Thunderstorm wind gusts uprooted a few trees and downed 2 power poles. Two roofs were also taken off machine sheds, the damage path was about a quarter of a mile wide. |
| September 2023 | Hail | Diller | - | Trained spotter reported 1-inch hail. |
| May 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Diller | - | A public personal weather station measured a peak wind gust of 63 mph. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Diller | - | Police reported 1 inch hail. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Diller | - | From a multi-updraft supercell thunderstorm that moved across the area this afternoon. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Diller | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph blew the roof off of a shed at the local Farmers Coop. |
| September 2008 | Hail | Diller | - | Relayed by the Emergency Manager. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Diller | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph broke tree branches in the area. The winds were accompanied by penny-size hail. |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Diller | - | Emergency management estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of around 60 mph near Diller. |
| August 2019 | Hail | Diller | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Diller | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Diller | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Diller | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Diller | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Diller | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Diller | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Diller | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Diller | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Diller | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Diller | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Diller | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Diller | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Diller | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Diller | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Diller | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Diller | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harbine | 6.0 miles | 10 | |
| Steele City | 6.9 miles | 10 | |
| Rudy | 7.1 miles | 10 | |
| Endicott | 8.8 miles | 10 | |
| Jansen | 9.5 miles | 11 | |
| Fairbury | 13.2 miles | 11 | |
| Plymouth | 13.7 miles | 11 | |
| Bower (historical) | 16.7 miles | 10 |
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 Diller | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2387781 | 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 828718. 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.




