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Douglas, Nebraska

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Hendricks precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68344. The Survey maps it on the Douglas quadrangle. 166 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,266 feet above sea level.

Douglas within Otoe County

Population over time

2 figures

Douglas fell from 173 to 166 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
2010173
2020166-7 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

20 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Douglas between 2008 and 2020, burning about 419 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 burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4

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
3 September 2017Debris and open burning10 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
28 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
26 May 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
8 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
7 April 2009Debris and open burning35 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
3 April 2010Debris and open burning10 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
19 April 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
17 April 2010Debris and open burning10 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Otoe County

Storms near this place

32 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Douglas in 32 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 23 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flash 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 1998Thunderstorm WindDouglas$85,000Semi truck overturned. 7000 square foot pole barn destroyed west of Syracuse. Hay sheds flattened. Most damage confined to an area between Douglas/Syracuse/and Unadilla.
April 2022Tornado (EF1)Douglas-An EF1 tornado downed trees, collapsed a barn, damaged sheds, and tore shingles off a home. It was on the ground for 2 minutes, had a path length of 0.8 miles, and was a bout 100 yards wide. Max winds were estimated at 93 mph.
April 2022Tornado (EF1)Douglas-Brief touchdown of tornado at a farm that destroyed a shed and a damaged another shed.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindDouglas-Public reported uprooted trees.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindDouglas-Public reported tree limbs were blown down.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindDouglas-Spotters estimated strong wind gusts up to 60 mph.
September 2018Heavy RainDouglas-A spotter reported 3.5 inches of rain since 6 pm the previous evening. The storm total rainfall over the last several days was 6.5.
May 2014HailDouglas-A little north of Douglas along the county spur.
June 2008HailDouglas-Hail from pea-size to half dollar-size covered the ground near Douglas.
March 2007HailDouglas-Two separate severe storms tracked across the county at the same time, one across the northern sections and the other across the south.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindDouglas-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph were accompanied by 1 inch hail.
May 2005HailDouglas-Hail up to nickel size fell along with 1.5 inches of rain in 20 minutes.
March 2004HailDouglas-Penny sized hail accumulated 3 inches deep in fields.
April 2017HailDouglas-no account filed
April 2017HailDouglas-no account filed
May 2015HailDouglas-no account filed
September 2015HailDouglas-no account filed
June 2011HailDouglas-no account filed
June 2006HailDouglas-no account filed
July 2006HailDouglas-no account filed
June 2005HailDouglas-no account filed
May 2004HailDouglas-no account filed
June 2004HailDouglas-no account filed
June 2004HailDouglas-no account filed
June 2004HailDouglas-no account filed
May 2003HailDouglas-no account filed
April 2001HailDouglas-no account filed
April 2001HailDouglas-no account filed
May 2001HailDouglas-no account filed
April 1999HailDouglas-no account filed
October 1998HailDouglas-no account filed
May 1996Flash FloodDouglas-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Otoe 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
Burr6.2 miles13
Palmyra7.5 miles13
Unadilla8.7 miles13
Syracuse11.5 miles13
Tangeman16.2 miles13
Otoe16.8 miles13
Cio (historical)19.2 miles13
Delta (historical)19.2 miles13

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 DouglasAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2212888The 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 828764. 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.