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.
Population over time
2 figuresDouglas 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 173 | |
| 2020 | 166 | -7 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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.
- 1903 USGS Weeping Water quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1929 USGS Weeping Water quadrangle1:125000
- 1955 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Douglas quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
20 since 2008Regional 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 burning | 16 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 28 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 26 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 8 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 April 2009 | Debris and open burning | 35 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 3 April 2010 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 19 April 2009 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 17 April 2010 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
32 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Douglas | $85,000 | Semi 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 2022 | Tornado (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 2022 | Tornado (EF1) | Douglas | - | Brief touchdown of tornado at a farm that destroyed a shed and a damaged another shed. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Douglas | - | Public reported uprooted trees. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Douglas | - | Public reported tree limbs were blown down. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Douglas | - | Spotters estimated strong wind gusts up to 60 mph. |
| September 2018 | Heavy Rain | Douglas | - | 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 2014 | Hail | Douglas | - | A little north of Douglas along the county spur. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Douglas | - | Hail from pea-size to half dollar-size covered the ground near Douglas. |
| March 2007 | Hail | Douglas | - | Two separate severe storms tracked across the county at the same time, one across the northern sections and the other across the south. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Douglas | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph were accompanied by 1 inch hail. |
| May 2005 | Hail | Douglas | - | Hail up to nickel size fell along with 1.5 inches of rain in 20 minutes. |
| March 2004 | Hail | Douglas | - | Penny sized hail accumulated 3 inches deep in fields. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Douglas | - | no account filed |
| April 2017 | Hail | Douglas | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Douglas | - | no account filed |
| September 2015 | Hail | Douglas | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Douglas | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Douglas | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Douglas | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Douglas | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Douglas | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Douglas | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Douglas | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Douglas | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Douglas | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Douglas | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Douglas | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Douglas | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Hail | Douglas | - | no account filed |
| October 1998 | Hail | Douglas | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Flash Flood | Douglas | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burr | 6.2 miles | 13 | |
| Palmyra | 7.5 miles | 13 | |
| Unadilla | 8.7 miles | 13 | |
| Syracuse | 11.5 miles | 13 | |
| Tangeman | 16.2 miles | 13 | |
| Otoe | 16.8 miles | 13 | |
| Cio (historical) | 19.2 miles | 13 | |
| Delta (historical) | 19.2 miles | 13 |
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 Douglas | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2212888 | 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 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.






