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Edison, Nebraska

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Edison precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68936. The Survey maps it on the Edison quadrangle. 111 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,113 feet above sea level.

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Edison within Furnas County

Population over time

2 figures

Edison fell from 133 to 111 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
2010133
2020111-22 (-17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

23 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Edison between 2010 and 2020, burning about 82 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
Equipment and vehicle use8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
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
25 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
2 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
2 August 2010Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
16 August 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
22 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
2 July 2013Natural2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
5 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
20 June 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Furnas County

Storms near this place

60 of 67 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Edison in 67 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 45 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 3 heavy rain. 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
July 1996Thunderstorm WindEdison$180,000no account filed
May 2022HailEdison$150,000Hail between quarter and ping pong ball size was reported in Edison.
April 2012HailEdison$150,000no account filed
August 2015Flash FloodEdison$100,000Multiple roads were under water in and around the Edison area due to flash flooding. In Edison, Ag Valley Coop sustained some of the worst damage as flood waters infiltrated the first floor office. Other homes and buildings in and around Edison were also flooded. As of 4:25 pm CDT, 4.25 inches of rain was reported to have fallen two miles southwest of Edison (fell in one approximately one hour) and washed a dip in a driveway 2 feet deep. By 5 p.m. CDT, rainfall at that location was unofficially up to 5. In addition, the NWS cooperative observer in Edison reported a storm total of 3.74.
April 2024HailEdison$50,000Quarter to half-dollar size hail almost covering the ground was accompanied by wind gusts estimated to be near 60 MPH. A couple of windows were broken on the south side of a home.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindEdison$50,000Tree damage was reported in and just west of Edison, including 2 to 3 large cottonwood trees that were knocked down. A tree limb approximately 8 to 10 inches in diameter was also blown down, falling on and damaging a porch roof.
August 2008Flash FloodEdison$30,000Highway 136 was reported flooded 4 miles west of Oxford. Flooding was also reported in Oxford.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindEdison$25,000Wind gusts of 60 to 65 mph were reported both from law enforcement two miles north of Edison, and also a trained spotter in Edison.
June 2008HailEdison$25,000Damage to home windows and siding as well as windshields reported. Accompanying winds estimated at 50 to 60 mph.
August 2015HailEdison$25,000no account filed
June 2002HailEdison$25,000no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindEdison$15,000These winds were associated with a gust front from a squall line that passed just to the northeast. Tree limbs were downed and power was out in town.
June 2017HailEdison$15,000no account filed
May 2016HailEdison$15,000no account filed
June 2011HailEdison$10,000no account filed
June 2001Tornado (F0)Edison$8,000Brief tornado in Furnas county.
April 2025HailEdison-Hail up to the size of half dollars was reported.
May 2023HailEdison-There was a brief break in between rounds of hail up to the size of half dollars.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindEdison-A wind gust of 59 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located in Edison.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindEdison-A wind gust of 62 MPH was recorded by a mesonet station located in Edison.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindEdison-Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH.
July 2020HailEdison-Quarter to golf ball size hail was reported.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindEdison-Wind gusts were estimated to be near 70 MPH. Small tree branches were broken.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindEdison-Wind gusts estimated to be near 90 MPH resulted in damage in the Edison area. An anemometer on a grain elevator measured a 72 MPH wind gust at 11:37 PM CDT. There were numerous reports of tree damage, with some large trees block roadways. The strongest winds were estimated to be north of town, where at least 3 power poles were snapped along Highway 136.
June 2018Heavy RainEdison-A storm total rainfall amount of 3.86 inches occurred in Edison and 3.30 inches occurred two miles east-southeast of Cambridge.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindEdison-Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindEdison-Wind was accompanied by penny size hail.
August 2015FloodEdison-Isolated flooding continued across parts of eastern Furnas County through the night, especially in the Edison area. The NWS cooperative observer in Edison reported a 24-hour rainfall total of 3.74, most of which fell between 3-5 p.m. CDT on the 16th.
June 2013HailEdison-Quarter sized hail covered the ground. Hail is ongoing along with heavy rain, but wind gusts of only 30 mph.
May 2011Heavy RainEdison-Storm total rainfall of 3.51 inches reported over last 24 hours.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindEdison-Wind gusts were estimated at 65 MPH.
October 2011Heavy RainEdison-Total rainfall over the past 24 hours of 3.73 inches was reported.
March 2024HailEdison-no account filed
April 2024HailEdison-no account filed
May 2023HailEdison-no account filed
April 2022HailEdison-no account filed
April 2021HailEdison-no account filed
March 2021HailEdison-no account filed
March 2018HailEdison-no account filed
June 2018Thunderstorm WindEdison-no account filed
July 2018Thunderstorm WindEdison-no account filed
June 2017HailEdison-no account filed
June 2017HailEdison-no account filed
May 2016HailEdison-no account filed
May 2016HailEdison-no account filed
July 2016HailEdison-no account filed
June 2014HailEdison-no account filed
July 2014HailEdison-no account filed
July 2014HailEdison-no account filed
July 2013HailEdison-no account filed
March 2013HailEdison-no account filed
March 2013HailEdison-no account filed
March 2013HailEdison-no account filed
May 2012HailEdison-no account filed
June 2008HailEdison-no account filed
July 2007HailEdison-no account filed
April 2007HailEdison-no account filed
June 2005HailEdison-no account filed
July 2004Flash FloodEdison-no account filed
May 2003HailEdison-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Furnas 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
Arapahoe6.8 miles14
Oxford7.9 miles13
Hollinger8.9 miles13
Beaver City10.0 miles13
Deerfield Corner11.8 miles14
Holbrook12.5 miles8
Hendley14.4 miles14
Precept14.6 miles13

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 EdisonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q383657The 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 829026. 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.