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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.

Duncan within Platte County

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.

Population over time

2 figures

Duncan 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.

YearPeople Change
2010351
2020392+41 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

39 since 2004

Regional 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 burning21
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Fireworks2
Arson/incendiarism2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Natural1

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
3 August 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
26 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
25 July 2009Smoking1.5 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
2 July 2007Smoking5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
16 July 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
28 June 2009Fireworksunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
28 June 2009Arson/incendiarism35 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
28 June 2008Fireworksunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Platte County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Po-2 Oconee Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Platte County

Storms near this place

21 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2022HailDuncan-Public reported 1.5 inch hail.
June 2021HailDuncan-Public reported 1.5 inch hail.
June 2021HailDuncan-Trained spotter reported 1 inch hail.
June 2020HailDuncan-Public reported 1 inch hail.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindDuncan-A storm chaser 1 1/2 miles south-southwest of Duncan estimated 60 mph thunderstorm winds.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindDuncan-Semi-truck was overturned on US 30 1 1/2 miles east of Duncan.
June 2014HailDuncan-There were also several trees downed with the storm as well. The hail and wind lead to extensive crop damage.
August 2009HailDuncan-Pea-size hail covered the ground from a few miles west of Columbus into Columbus. A few hailstones reached quarter-size.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindDuncan-Emergency Management estimated that thunderstorm winds gusting to 60 mph blew down corn stalks east of Duncan.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindDuncan-Thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 mph were estimated in Duncan. Tree damage was observed.
July 2003Tornado (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 2002HailDuncan-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 2001Tornado (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 2008HailDuncan-no account filed
April 2006HailDuncan-no account filed
June 2005HailDuncan-no account filed
May 2003HailDuncan-no account filed
May 2003HailDuncan-no account filed
June 2003HailDuncan-no account filed
June 2003HailDuncan-no account filed
June 1998Tornado (F1)Duncan-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Platte 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
Gardiner4.3 miles13
Oconee5.7 miles14
Wagners Lake6.2 miles13
Sheldonville6.3 miles13
College View Park6.7 miles13
Countryview Estates6.7 miles13
Columbus7.3 miles12
Monroe8.1 miles14

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 DuncanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2467619The 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.