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Dix, Nebraska

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Dix precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69133. The Survey maps it on the Dix quadrangle. 187 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,554 feet above sea level.

Dix within Kimball County

Population over time

2 figures

Dix fell from 255 to 187 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
2010255
2020187-68 (-27%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

23 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Dix between 2010 and 2020, burning about 480 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 burning6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 September 2018Smoking1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
16 September 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
16 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
28 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
19 August 2010Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
14 August 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
8 July 2018Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 July 2018Railroad operations and maintenance25 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kimball County

Storms near this place

55 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dix in 55 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 41 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1996HailDix$20,000no account filed
June 1997HailDix$15,000no account filed
June 1997HailDix$10,000no account filed
June 2009Flash FloodDix$5,000Public reported that Sidney Draw was flowing out of its banks 8 feet deep and 1/4 mile wide, and flowing over county road 8.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindDix$3,000A storm produced a wind gust of 80 mph 9 miles north of Dix, which damaged a roof of a home.
August 1997Tornado (F0)Dix$3,000Unconfirmed public report; farm building damaged.
March 2025HailDix-A trained spotter north of Kimball Nebraska reported 1.25 inch diameter hail.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindDix-Union Pacific Railroad site near Dix Nebraska reported a maximum wind gust of 60 mph with a severe thunderstorm.
June 2025HailDix-Storm Chaser reporting ping pong ball sized hail in Dix.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindDix-Mesonet station UP261 measured maximum wind gust 1 miles east of Dix.
June 2023HailDix-Baseball sized hail was observed 12 miles SE of Kimball by local Emergency Management officials.
June 2023HailDix-Three-inch diameter hail was reported 4 miles S of Dix.
June 2023HailDix-The public measured 3.5-inch diameter hail 7 miles S of Dix.
June 2023HailDix-The public measured 3.5-inch diameter hail in the town of Bushnell.
September 2023HailDix-A trained spotter reported quarter sized hail 2 miles W of Dix.
September 2023HailDix-Emergency Management reported quarter sized hail in Dix.
August 2017HailDix-Ping pong ball size hail was observed north of Dix.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindDix-An estimated wind gust of 60 mph was reported at Dix.
August 2015Flash FloodDix-Two to three inches of rain in less than two hours caused flash flooding. Many Kimball streets were closed by more than a foot of water. Lodgepole Creek overran its banks with lowland flooding reported south across US Highway 30 and Interstate 80.
May 2014HailDix-Golf ball size hail was observed east of Dix.
June 2014HailDix-Penny to quarter size hail was observed just east of County Road 67.
July 2014Flash FloodDix-Very heavy rainfall caused flash flooding with several roads closed or washed out in southeast Kimball County.
June 2013Tornado (EF0)Dix-A weak tornado touched down just east of Dix between U.S. Highway 30 and Interstate 80. The tornado moved east across open country for a few minutes before lifting. No damage was reported.
June 2013HailDix-Golf ball size hail was reported northeast of Kimball.
June 2011Flash FloodDix-County Road 60 flooded and closed over Lodgepole Creek.
August 2003HailDix-Hail fell along the Banner/Kimball county line.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindDix-77 mph wind gusts reported 10 miles north of Dix, NE
July 1999HailDix-3/4 inch hail fell 7 miles south of Dix, NE
July 1999HailDix-3/4 inch hail reported 7 miles south of Dix, NE
July 1999Thunderstorm WindDix-64 mph wind gust 10 miles north of Dix, NE
May 2021Thunderstorm WindDix-no account filed
May 2020HailDix-no account filed
August 2019HailDix-no account filed
September 2018HailDix-no account filed
August 2018HailDix-no account filed
August 2018HailDix-no account filed
June 2011HailDix-no account filed
June 2011HailDix-no account filed
June 2011HailDix-no account filed
June 2011HailDix-no account filed
July 2009HailDix-no account filed
June 2009HailDix-no account filed
June 2006HailDix-no account filed
June 2005HailDix-no account filed
June 2005HailDix-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindDix-no account filed
May 2002HailDix-no account filed
August 2002HailDix-no account filed
June 2001HailDix-no account filed
June 2001HailDix-no account filed
May 2000HailDix-no account filed
July 1998HailDix-no account filed
August 1997HailDix-no account filed
June 1997HailDix-no account filed
July 1996HailDix-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kimball 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
Jacinto4.4 miles8
Owasco4.7 miles8
Kimball9.4 miles8
Stahlas North Court9.7 miles8
Oliver16.0 miles8
Bushnell21.5 miles8

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 DixAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2571575The 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 828736. 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.