Duncan, Nebraska
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Butler Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68634. The Survey maps it on the Duncan quadrangle. 392 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,496 feet above sea level.
On record in Duncan
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 within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
- Lincoln Highway-Duncan Westlisted 2007 · 0.4 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresDuncan grew from 351 to 392 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 | 351 | |
| 2020 | 392 | +41 (+12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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.
- 1899 USGS David City quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Duncan quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS David City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
39 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Duncan between 2004 and 2020, burning about 269 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 were 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 | 21 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 August 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 26 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 25 July 2009 | Smoking | 1.5 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 2 July 2007 | Smoking | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 16 July 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 28 June 2009 | Fireworks | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 28 June 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | 35 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 28 June 2008 | Fireworks | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Duncan: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Po-2 Oconee Pit and Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
21 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Duncan in 21 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 14 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado. 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 2022 | Hail | Duncan | - | Public reported 1.5 inch hail. |
| June 2021 | Hail | Duncan | - | Public reported 1.5 inch hail. |
| June 2021 | Hail | Duncan | - | Trained spotter reported 1 inch hail. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Duncan | - | Public reported 1 inch hail. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Duncan | - | A storm chaser 1 1/2 miles south-southwest of Duncan estimated 60 mph thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Duncan | - | Semi-truck was overturned on US 30 1 1/2 miles east of Duncan. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Duncan | - | There were also several trees downed with the storm as well. The hail and wind lead to extensive crop damage. |
| August 2009 | Hail | Duncan | - | Pea-size hail covered the ground from a few miles west of Columbus into Columbus. A few hailstones reached quarter-size. |
| September 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Duncan | - | Emergency Management estimated that thunderstorm winds gusting to 60 mph blew down corn stalks east of Duncan. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Duncan | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 mph were estimated in Duncan. Tree damage was observed. |
| July 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Duncan | - | A brief tornado touchdown was reported by emergency management just inside the Platte county border between Silver Creek and Duncan. The tornado touched down in an open field and caused little or no damage. |
| June 2002 | Hail | Duncan | - | Hail up to golfball size pelted an area of southern Platte county from around Duncan to the southern sections of Columbus. In fact, there was even one unofficial report that some stones were as big as baseball size in between Duncan and Columbus on highway 30. The hail broke windows and did siding damage on houses and businesses just southwest of Columbus, as well as broke windows on vehicles in that area. Crop damage was also reported along highway 30 southwest of Columbus. |
| October 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Duncan | - | This tornado was caught on film by a storm chaser and was produced by the same supercell that earlier produced a tornado that caused damage in the Silver Creek area southwest of Platte county. In Platte county, no apparent damage was noted from this tornado. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Duncan | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Duncan | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Duncan | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Duncan | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Duncan | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Duncan | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Duncan | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Tornado (F1) | Duncan | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gardiner | 4.3 miles | 13 | |
| Oconee | 5.7 miles | 14 | |
| Wagners Lake | 6.2 miles | 13 | |
| Sheldonville | 6.3 miles | 13 | |
| College View Park | 6.7 miles | 13 | |
| Countryview Estates | 6.7 miles | 13 | |
| Columbus | 7.3 miles | 12 | |
| Monroe | 8.1 miles | 14 |
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 Duncan | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2467619 | 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 828887. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.





