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Du Bois, Nebraska

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Precinct 1, Pawnee No. 1. It lies in ZIP code area 68345. It stands on Lores Branch. The Survey maps it on the Du Bois quadrangle. 122 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,066 feet above sea level.

Du Bois within Pawnee County

On record in Du Bois

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Du Bois fell from 147 to 122 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
2010147
2020122-25 (-17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

9 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Du Bois between 2000 and 2015, burning about 149 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1

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
1 August 2001Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresHorton AgencyJOHN DEERE
15 April 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
5 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
3 March 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresHorton AgencyK
15 March 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresHorton AgencyFEE
15 March 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresHorton Agency#33
14 March 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresHorton AgencyHOUSE
17 February 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresHorton AgencyHAZEL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pawnee County

Storms near this place

25 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Du Bois in 25 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 14 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 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
June 1997Thunderstorm WindDu Bois$30,000Large cottonwood tree fell on house. Shed and swing set torn out and flipped over.
June 2025HailDu Bois-Public report of hail estimated up to 1 inch in diameter.
May 2025Tornado (EFU)Du Bois-Storm chaser videos indicate that an intermittent weak tornado tracked just south of Highway 8, beginning in an open field east of Highway 50, and continuing with an intermittent ground-level circulation and dust until ending prior to reaching 631 road. The ground level dust circulation did appear to be connected to a cloud base circulation, although without a fully visible condensation funnel. No damage was noted with this tornado.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindDu Bois-Emergency Management relayed a report of doors blown off a farm outbuilding. A subsequent damage survey found this was due to straight-line winds, estimated to be at 83 miles per hour.
May 2023HailDu Bois-Trained spotter reported 1-inch hail and a 35 mph wind gust.
April 2023HailDu Bois-COOP observer reported hail slightly larger than quarters, but there weren't many of them.
April 2023HailDu Bois-Trained spotter reported 1.5-inch hail.
April 2023HailDu Bois-COOP observer reported 1-inch hail near Du Bois.
April 2023HailDu Bois-Public reported 1.25-inch hail via mPING.
April 2023HailDu Bois-Public reported 1.25-inch hail.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindDu Bois-COOP Observer reported a that a shed blew over and crushed a can.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindDu Bois-COOP Observer reported trees down along Highway 50.
December 2021Tornado (EF0)Du Bois-A brief tornado destroyed half of a large outbuilding.
July 2020Flash FloodDu Bois-Public reported minor lowland flooding affecting unmaintained roads along Turkey Creek.
April 2013HailDu Bois-Hail up to 1.5 inches in diameter caused some scattered siding damage south of Pawnee City.
June 2010HailDu Bois-The storm may have also produced a funnel cloud.
June 2009HailDu Bois-Thunderstorm winds estimated at around 60 mph were also reported in the area.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindDu Bois-A spotter estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 mph lasted for around 20 minutes in the Du Bois area. The winds were accompanied by torrential rain.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindDu Bois-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at around 70 mph blew down a very large mature tree in town and also caused other tree damage.
May 2008FloodDu Bois-Flooding along Turkey Creek and its tributaries caused the closure of Highway 65 near the Kansas border. A few other county roads and agricultural lowlands also experienced flooding. The flooding caused around $400,000 dollars damage to bridges and culverts and for road repair.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindDu Bois-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated by the public at 60 mph caused tree damage near Du Bois.
May 1999HailDu Bois-Hen egg sized hail reported on highway 8.
May 2004HailDu Bois-no account filed
May 2003HailDu Bois-no account filed
September 1998HailDu Bois-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pawnee 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
Pawnee City7.6 miles10
Table Rock10.2 miles10
Violet (historical)12.9 miles10
Steinauer15.5 miles10
Bookwalter17.1 miles10
Burchard17.8 miles10
Mayberry19.1 miles10
Mission (historical)19.1 miles11

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 Du BoisAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3014538The 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 835291. 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.