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.
Population over time
2 figuresDix 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 255 | |
| 2020 | 187 | -68 (-27%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 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.
- 1954 USGS Scottsbluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Scottsbluff quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1972 USGS Dix quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Kimball quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
23 since 2010Regional 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 burning | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2018 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 16 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 16 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 28 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 19 August 2010 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 14 August 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 8 July 2018 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 6 July 2018 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 25 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
55 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1996 | Hail | Dix | $20,000 | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Dix | $15,000 | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Dix | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Flash Flood | Dix | $5,000 | Public 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 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dix | $3,000 | A storm produced a wind gust of 80 mph 9 miles north of Dix, which damaged a roof of a home. |
| August 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Dix | $3,000 | Unconfirmed public report; farm building damaged. |
| March 2025 | Hail | Dix | - | A trained spotter north of Kimball Nebraska reported 1.25 inch diameter hail. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dix | - | Union Pacific Railroad site near Dix Nebraska reported a maximum wind gust of 60 mph with a severe thunderstorm. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Dix | - | Storm Chaser reporting ping pong ball sized hail in Dix. |
| May 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dix | - | Mesonet station UP261 measured maximum wind gust 1 miles east of Dix. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Dix | - | Baseball sized hail was observed 12 miles SE of Kimball by local Emergency Management officials. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Dix | - | Three-inch diameter hail was reported 4 miles S of Dix. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Dix | - | The public measured 3.5-inch diameter hail 7 miles S of Dix. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Dix | - | The public measured 3.5-inch diameter hail in the town of Bushnell. |
| September 2023 | Hail | Dix | - | A trained spotter reported quarter sized hail 2 miles W of Dix. |
| September 2023 | Hail | Dix | - | Emergency Management reported quarter sized hail in Dix. |
| August 2017 | Hail | Dix | - | Ping pong ball size hail was observed north of Dix. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dix | - | An estimated wind gust of 60 mph was reported at Dix. |
| August 2015 | Flash Flood | Dix | - | 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 2014 | Hail | Dix | - | Golf ball size hail was observed east of Dix. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Dix | - | Penny to quarter size hail was observed just east of County Road 67. |
| July 2014 | Flash Flood | Dix | - | Very heavy rainfall caused flash flooding with several roads closed or washed out in southeast Kimball County. |
| June 2013 | Tornado (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 2013 | Hail | Dix | - | Golf ball size hail was reported northeast of Kimball. |
| June 2011 | Flash Flood | Dix | - | County Road 60 flooded and closed over Lodgepole Creek. |
| August 2003 | Hail | Dix | - | Hail fell along the Banner/Kimball county line. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dix | - | 77 mph wind gusts reported 10 miles north of Dix, NE |
| July 1999 | Hail | Dix | - | 3/4 inch hail fell 7 miles south of Dix, NE |
| July 1999 | Hail | Dix | - | 3/4 inch hail reported 7 miles south of Dix, NE |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dix | - | 64 mph wind gust 10 miles north of Dix, NE |
| May 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dix | - | no account filed |
| May 2020 | Hail | Dix | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Dix | - | no account filed |
| September 2018 | Hail | Dix | - | no account filed |
| August 2018 | Hail | Dix | - | no account filed |
| August 2018 | Hail | Dix | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Dix | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Dix | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Dix | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Dix | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Dix | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Dix | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Dix | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Dix | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Dix | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dix | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Dix | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Dix | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Dix | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Dix | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Dix | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Dix | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Dix | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Dix | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Dix | - | 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.
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 Dix | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2571575 | 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 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.



