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.
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 figuresDu 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 147 | |
| 2020 | 122 | -25 (-17%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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.
- 1955 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Du Bois quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Beatrice quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
9 since 2000Regional 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/undetermined | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 August 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | Horton Agency | JOHN DEERE |
| 15 April 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 5 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 3 March 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Horton Agency | K |
| 15 March 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Horton Agency | FEE |
| 15 March 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Horton Agency | #33 |
| 14 March 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Horton Agency | HOUSE |
| 17 February 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Horton Agency | HAZEL |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
25 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Du Bois | $30,000 | Large cottonwood tree fell on house. Shed and swing set torn out and flipped over. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Du Bois | - | Public report of hail estimated up to 1 inch in diameter. |
| May 2025 | Tornado (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 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Du 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 2023 | Hail | Du Bois | - | Trained spotter reported 1-inch hail and a 35 mph wind gust. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Du Bois | - | COOP observer reported hail slightly larger than quarters, but there weren't many of them. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Du Bois | - | Trained spotter reported 1.5-inch hail. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Du Bois | - | COOP observer reported 1-inch hail near Du Bois. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Du Bois | - | Public reported 1.25-inch hail via mPING. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Du Bois | - | Public reported 1.25-inch hail. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Du Bois | - | COOP Observer reported a that a shed blew over and crushed a can. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Du Bois | - | COOP Observer reported trees down along Highway 50. |
| December 2021 | Tornado (EF0) | Du Bois | - | A brief tornado destroyed half of a large outbuilding. |
| July 2020 | Flash Flood | Du Bois | - | Public reported minor lowland flooding affecting unmaintained roads along Turkey Creek. |
| April 2013 | Hail | Du Bois | - | Hail up to 1.5 inches in diameter caused some scattered siding damage south of Pawnee City. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Du Bois | - | The storm may have also produced a funnel cloud. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Du Bois | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at around 60 mph were also reported in the area. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Du 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 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Du 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 2008 | Flood | Du 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 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Du Bois | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated by the public at 60 mph caused tree damage near Du Bois. |
| May 1999 | Hail | Du Bois | - | Hen egg sized hail reported on highway 8. |
| May 2004 | Hail | Du Bois | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Du Bois | - | no account filed |
| September 1998 | Hail | Du Bois | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pawnee City | 7.6 miles | 10 | |
| Table Rock | 10.2 miles | 10 | |
| Violet (historical) | 12.9 miles | 10 | |
| Steinauer | 15.5 miles | 10 | |
| Bookwalter | 17.1 miles | 10 | |
| Burchard | 17.8 miles | 10 | |
| Mayberry | 19.1 miles | 10 | |
| Mission (historical) | 19.1 miles | 11 |
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 Bois | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3014538 | 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 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.




