Durant, Nebraska

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in West Stromsburg precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68666. The Survey maps it on the Durant quadrangle.

Durant within Polk County

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.

1896 USGS Stromsburg quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1955 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Durant quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS David City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

9 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Durant between 2008 and 2019, burning about 50 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
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
29 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	25 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
2 September 2013	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
8 April 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
9 March 2008	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
4 March 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
31 March 2014	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
2 February 2012	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
18 November 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Durant in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2011: 1 hail, 1 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 2011	Tornado (EF3)	Durant	$4,000,000	The second EF3 tornado of the day touched down approximately 4 miles east of Polk and continued north for nearly 10 miles before lifting approximately 6 miles west-northwest of Osceola. Damage was noted right at the start of the path, with a brick home on Highway 66 west of Polk suffering significant roof, window and tree damage, and a semi-truck and trailer were knocked over onto its side. About 2 miles north of Highway 66, a residence suffered minor tree damage and lost an outbuilding, and a combine was tossed about 100 yards into a field. As the tornado continued north, numerous power poles were snapped, irrigation pivots were overturned, and crops were stripped from the ground. The most significant damage occurred when a farmstead on Highway 92 approximately 6 miles west of Osceola took a direct hit. The home as well as surrounding outbuildings and trees were either destroyed or suffered significant damage. A car, tractor, and an ATV were thrown from their original locations into the field just north of the home. The tornado finally lifted approximately 2 miles north of the intersection of Highways 92 and 39, but not before striking another farmstead, destroying an outbuilding and garage, and damaging a machine shed and barn. The maximum wind speed of this tornado was estimated to be 140 MPH.
July 2008	Hail	Durant	$10,000	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Polk 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Stromsburg	3.8 miles	13
Swedehome	4.9 miles	13
Polk	6.4 miles	13
Osceola	8.6 miles	14
Shelby	14.4 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 Durant	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18150121	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 835294. 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.