Dunbar, Nebraska
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Delaware precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68346. It stands on Wilson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dunbar quadrangle. 165 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,063 feet above sea level.
On record in Dunbar
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 4 records
Massow, Joachim-Schultz, Charles and Annie, Houselisted 2012- Little Nemaha River Bridgelisted 1992
- Wolf Creek Bridgelisted 1992
- Wyoming Bridgelisted 1992
Population over time
2 figuresDunbar fell from 187 to 165 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 | 187 | |
| 2020 | 165 | -22 (-12%) |
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
- 1966 USGS Dunbar quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
30 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Dunbar between 2001 and 2018, burning about 254 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 | 13 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 6 July 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 15 June 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 9 May 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 9 May 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 5 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 5 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 30 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
26 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dunbar in 26 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 21 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunbar | - | Emergency manager report of a tree down south of Highway 2 and 67 near Dunbar. Estimated wind speed of 60-70 mph, with the time of the damage estimated from radar. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Dunbar | - | Public reported 2-inch hail. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Dunbar | - | Emergency manager reported 1.75-inch hail. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunbar | - | Public reported 60 mph winds and nickel sized hail. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunbar | - | Public reported trees and large limbs down. |
| April 2012 | Hail | Dunbar | - | Hail around quarter-size fell near Dunbar. The hail caused some minor vehicle damage. |
| September 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunbar | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at over 70 blew a tractor trailer off of the road near the Highway 2 and County Road 67 interchange and also overturned a fifth-wheel trailer. Trees were damaged and a few were uprooted which caused some house damage in the area. |
| May 2004 | Hail | Dunbar | - | Hail around nickel size fell from Dunbar to locations 3 miles northeast of town. The storm was accompanied by wind gusts estimated at 60-70 mph. |
| May 2004 | Hail | Dunbar | - | Hail up to 1.5 inches in diameter fell around the Dunbar area for several minutes. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunbar | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 to 70 mph were estimated by an Amateur radio operator just north of Dunbar. The winds were accompanied by hail around nickel size. |
| July 2000 | Hail | Dunbar | - | Another one inch hail report from Dunbar. |
| October 2013 | Hail | Dunbar | - | no account filed |
| September 2010 | Hail | Dunbar | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Dunbar | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Dunbar | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Dunbar | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Dunbar | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Dunbar | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Dunbar | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Dunbar | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Dunbar | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Dunbar | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Dunbar | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Dunbar | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Dunbar | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Hail | Dunbar | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cio (historical) | 5.0 miles | 13 | |
| Delta (historical) | 5.0 miles | 13 | |
| Lorton | 5.0 miles | 13 | |
| Elberon | 5.1 miles | 11 | |
| Otoe | 6.0 miles | 13 | |
| Wyoming | 7.5 miles | 11 | |
| Tangeman | 8.1 miles | 13 | |
| Syracuse | 8.3 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 Dunbar | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2198733 | 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 828885. 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.






