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.
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 figuresDwight 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 204 | |
| 2020 | 229 | +25 (+12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 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 Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Dwight quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS David City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
18 since 2000Regional 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 burning | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.5 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 9 August 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 8 August 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 8 July 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 19 May 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 80 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 1 April 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 6 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 26 March 2007 | Smoking | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
21 since 2003Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2026 | Hail | Dwight | - | 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 2026 | Hail | Dwight | - | Delayed report from emergency management of hail up to ping pong ball sized with wind-driven damage to windows and siding. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Dwight | - | Trained spotter report of hail measured at 1.50 inches in diameter with corresponding photographs shared on social media. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Dwight | - | Public report of hail estimated at 1.25 inches in diameter. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Dwight | - | Trained spotter report of hail estimated at 2.00 inches in diameter. |
| April 2024 | Tornado (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 2022 | Hail | Dwight | - | Law enforcement reported 1-inch hail. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Dwight | - | Public reported 1 inch hail via social media. |
| August 2021 | Flash Flood | Dwight | - | Public reported flood county roads near Dwight. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Dwight | - | The public reported hail dime to golf ball size. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Dwight | - | Hail up to 1.5 inches in diameter fell for several minutes southeast through northeast of Dwight. |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dwight | - | 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 2012 | Hail | Dwight | - | Hail up to nickel-size was reported near Dwight. |
| June 2008 | Tornado (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 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dwight | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph knocked down some 2 inch in diameter tree limbs. |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dwight | - | A trained spotter estimated that thunderstorm winds gusted to 60 mph in the Dwight area. |
| September 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dwight | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph downed 3 to 4 inch diameter tree limbs. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dwight | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at around 60 mph downed trees in Dwight. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Dwight | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Dwight | - | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Dwight | - | 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.
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 Dwight | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2155585 | 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 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.







