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Edgar, Nebraska

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Edgar Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68935. The Survey maps it on the Edgar quadrangle. 428 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,722 feet above sea level.

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Edgar within Clay County

Population over time

2 figures

Edgar fell from 498 to 428 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
2010498
2020428-70 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

10 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Edgar between 2000 and 2020, burning about 80 acres in total. 1 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 burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
14 August 2020Naturalunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
20 July 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
5 May 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
17 May 2018Debris and open burning60 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
9 March 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreRainwater Basin Wetland Management DistrictSMITH SOUTHEAST
21 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
16 March 2003Debris and open burning10 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
19 November 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

59 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Edgar in 59 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 33 thunderstorm wind, 22 hail, 2 tornado, 1 lightning. 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
May 2013Tornado (EF2)Edgar$4,000,000This EF2 tornado touched down during the early evening hours just west of Edgar and was on the ground between 5 and 10 minutes before lifting just southeast of Edgar. The maximum speed was estimated at 115 MPH with a maximum width of 250 yards. Damage along the path included snapped power poles, overturned irrigation pivots, grain bin and outbuilding damage. In Edgar itself, a large metal building was destroyed, other buildings suffered minor damage and the grain elevator was damaged.
May 2025HailEdgar$3,000,000Hail in Edgar was mainly less than two inches in diameter, but the largest stones were near the size of baseballs.
May 2023HailEdgar$1,500,000Hail up to the size of tennis balls was reported in Edgar.
September 2001Tornado (F3)Edgar$1,250,000Tornado exited Clay county and entered Fillmore county.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindEdgar$1,000,000A grain bin was blown onto train tracks and was hit by a train. A railroad employee reported that machinery from Grand Island was brought in to remove the bin from the tracks. This apparently took rather large machinery to perform this task. The tracks were finally cleared by 430 am CDT on August 2nd. Golfball size hail also occurred.
August 2013HailEdgar$1,000,000Also, a grain bin was blown onto train tracks and was hit by a train. A railroad employee reported that machinery from Grand Island was brought in to remove the bin from the tracks. This apparently took rather large machinery to perform this task. The tracks were finally cleared by 430 am CDT on August 2nd.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindEdgar$1,000,000A very large and healthy tree snapped at the base and fell onto the roof of a home. The base of the trunk was conservatively estimated at 2 feet in diameter.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindEdgar$500,000no account filed
June 2022Thunderstorm WindEdgar$250,000A wind gust of 69 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located one mile north-northwest of Edgar. An NeRAIN comment noted that there was crop damage in the area.
June 2022HailEdgar$250,000An NeRAIN observer reported hail up to ping pong ball size.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindEdgar$250,000no account filed
June 2021HailEdgar$100,000Hail up to golf ball size caused vehicle and crop damage in the area.
June 2001LightningEdgar$100,000no account filed
April 2012Thunderstorm WindEdgar$75,000Tree damage was reported in Edgar from wind gusts estimated at 60 mph.
June 2009HailEdgar$75,000no account filed
May 2015Thunderstorm WindEdgar$50,000Wind gusts were estimated to be near 75 MPH, with tree limbs downed in town. The local fire chief reported to a radio station that a lean-to building just south of town had been destroyed.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindEdgar$50,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindEdgar$30,000no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindEdgar$25,000no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindEdgar$25,000no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindEdgar$25,000no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindEdgar$25,000no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindEdgar$25,000no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindEdgar$25,000no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindEdgar$10,000no account filed
July 2022Thunderstorm WindEdgar$5,000Some tree branches were downed in Edgar, with power outages also reported.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindEdgar$5,000Wind gusts estimated near 60 MPH caused some minor tree damage in town.
August 2007HailEdgar$5,000no account filed
May 2024Thunderstorm WindEdgar$3,000A wind gust of 66 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located two miles north of Edgar. Emergency management reported tree damage in Edgar, with a few limbs downed that were up to eight inches in diameter.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindEdgar-A wind gust of 60 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located four miles north-northwest of Edgar and a gust of 58 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located one mile north-northwest of Edgar.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindEdgar-A wind gust of 70 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located three miles west of Edgar.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindEdgar-A wind gust of 58 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located 2 miles east of Edgar.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindEdgar-A wind gust of 68 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located three miles west of Edgar.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindEdgar-A wind gust of 68 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located three miles north of Edgar.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindEdgar-Tree limbs were downed in Edgar, the largest was 1 foot in diameter.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindEdgar-A wind gust of 66 MPH was recorded by a mesonet station located 3 miles east-northeast of Edgar.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindEdgar-A 67 MPH wind gust was measured by a mesonet station located 3 miles west of Edgar.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindEdgar-Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH.
April 2015HailEdgar-Nickel size hail occurred on the east side of Edgar.
August 2013Heavy RainEdgar-A 12 hour total of 3.80 inches fell through 7 am CDT. This report was from the Nebraska Rainfall Assessment and Information Network (NERAIN).
June 2012Thunderstorm WindEdgar-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindEdgar-A large tree blown over and a number of tree limbs knocked down around town.
May 2019HailEdgar-no account filed
May 2016HailEdgar-no account filed
May 2016HailEdgar-no account filed
August 2014HailEdgar-no account filed
May 2012HailEdgar-no account filed
June 2010HailEdgar-no account filed
June 2007HailEdgar-no account filed
September 2003HailEdgar-no account filed
April 2002HailEdgar-no account filed
May 2002Thunderstorm WindEdgar-no account filed
August 2002HailEdgar-no account filed
May 2001Thunderstorm WindEdgar-no account filed
October 2001HailEdgar-no account filed
September 2001HailEdgar-no account filed
July 2000HailEdgar-no account filed
August 1998Thunderstorm WindEdgar-no account filed
June 1998HailEdgar-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Ong7.4 miles12
Fairfield8.2 miles11
Deweese8.9 miles11
Clay Center11.2 miles12
Verona12.5 miles15
Anan13.0 miles11
Spring Ranch (historical)14.1 miles11
Saronville15.9 miles15

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 EdgarAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q952913The 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 829025. 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.