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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.

Dunbar within Otoe County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Dunbar 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.

YearPeople Change
2010187
2020165-22 (-12%)

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

30 since 2001

Regional 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 burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
14 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
15 June 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
9 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
9 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
5 April 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
5 April 2018Debris and open burning3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
30 April 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Otoe County

Storms near this place

26 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2025Thunderstorm WindDunbar-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 2023HailDunbar-Public reported 2-inch hail.
May 2023HailDunbar-Emergency manager reported 1.75-inch hail.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindDunbar-Public reported 60 mph winds and nickel sized hail.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindDunbar-Public reported trees and large limbs down.
April 2012HailDunbar-Hail around quarter-size fell near Dunbar. The hail caused some minor vehicle damage.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindDunbar-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 2004HailDunbar-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 2004HailDunbar-Hail up to 1.5 inches in diameter fell around the Dunbar area for several minutes.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindDunbar-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 2000HailDunbar-Another one inch hail report from Dunbar.
October 2013HailDunbar-no account filed
September 2010HailDunbar-no account filed
May 2006HailDunbar-no account filed
April 2005HailDunbar-no account filed
June 2005HailDunbar-no account filed
May 2004HailDunbar-no account filed
May 2004HailDunbar-no account filed
June 2004HailDunbar-no account filed
June 2004HailDunbar-no account filed
May 2002HailDunbar-no account filed
August 2002HailDunbar-no account filed
April 2001HailDunbar-no account filed
July 2000HailDunbar-no account filed
July 1999HailDunbar-no account filed
April 1995HailDunbar-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
Cio (historical)5.0 miles13
Delta (historical)5.0 miles13
Lorton5.0 miles13
Elberon5.1 miles11
Otoe6.0 miles13
Wyoming7.5 miles11
Tangeman8.1 miles13
Syracuse8.3 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 DunbarAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2198733The 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.