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Dwight, Nebraska

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Richardson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68635. The Survey maps it on the Dwight quadrangle. 229 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,624 feet above sea level.

Dwight within Butler County

On record in Dwight

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Dwight grew from 204 to 229 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
2010204
2020229+25 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

18 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Dwight between 2000 and 2017, burning about 121 acres in total. None 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 burning7
Equipment and vehicle use7
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
9 August 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
8 July 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
19 May 2010Arson/incendiarism80 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
1 April 2009Arson/incendiarism20 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 March 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
26 March 2007Smokingunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butler County

Storms near this place

21 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dwight in 21 storm reports between 2003 and 2026: 13 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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
April 2026HailDwight-Emergency management report of hail estimated at 1.75 inches in diameter with lots of quarter sized hail mixed in. Hail caused damage to vinyl siding.
April 2026HailDwight-Delayed report from emergency management of hail up to ping pong ball sized with wind-driven damage to windows and siding.
April 2026HailDwight-Trained spotter report of hail measured at 1.50 inches in diameter with corresponding photographs shared on social media.
April 2026HailDwight-Public report of hail estimated at 1.25 inches in diameter.
April 2026HailDwight-Trained spotter report of hail estimated at 2.00 inches in diameter.
April 2024Tornado (EF1)Dwight-Several trained spotters observed a tornado that began near the intersection of Highway 15 and Ashland Road. It moved to the north-northeast as a broad multiple vortex tornado, but the overall motion was observed to be relatively weak despite the tornado's width. The tornado snapped several trees and a road sign near the intersection of Highway 15 and 66. It continued nearly due north from that location with very little damage along an intermittent track, but it did overturn multiple center pivot irrigation systems. While the funnel was often not fully condensed, there was a rather persistent dust whirl below the base of the funnel all the way north to near Road 29 just east of Highway 15. Near the time of its demise, a second brief tornado developed just 1 mile to the east of this tornado. The peak winds in this tornado were estimated to be at 100 miles per hour. The tornado was estimated to be 200 yards across at its widest, with an average width of 100 yards during its lifespan.
June 2022HailDwight-Law enforcement reported 1-inch hail.
April 2022HailDwight-Public reported 1 inch hail via social media.
August 2021Flash FloodDwight-Public reported flood county roads near Dwight.
May 2019HailDwight-The public reported hail dime to golf ball size.
May 2012HailDwight-Hail up to 1.5 inches in diameter fell for several minutes southeast through northeast of Dwight.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindDwight-Thunderstorm winds estimated at over 60 mph downed trees and power lines near county roads 21, P and U southeast of Dwight. The winds were accompanied by hail that reached up to 1.5 inches in diameter.
June 2012HailDwight-Hail up to nickel-size was reported near Dwight.
June 2008Tornado (EF1)Dwight-This tornado was apparently embedded in a downburst or series of downbursts that caused damage from east of Ulysses through the Ceresco and Valparaiso areas in Saunders county. The tornado damaged a grain bin and trees when it initially touched down and caused other damage along its relatively narrow path. This tornado was from the same supercell thunderstorm that produced 2 earlier tornadoes near Ulysses.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindDwight-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph knocked down some 2 inch in diameter tree limbs.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindDwight-A trained spotter estimated that thunderstorm winds gusted to 60 mph in the Dwight area.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindDwight-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph downed 3 to 4 inch diameter tree limbs.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindDwight-Thunderstorm winds estimated at around 60 mph downed trees in Dwight.
May 2012HailDwight-no account filed
July 2009HailDwight-no account filed
April 2009HailDwight-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Butler 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
Loma5.1 miles11
Brainard7.0 miles11
Ulysses9.7 miles11
Garrison10.1 miles11
Millerton12.5 miles11
David City13.0 miles11
Bruno14.2 miles11
Surprise15.5 miles11

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 DwightAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2155585The 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 828907. 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.