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Elsmere, Nebraska

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Goose Creek precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69157. The Survey maps it on the Elsmere quadrangle. It stands 2,687 feet above sea level.

Elsmere within Cherry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Elsmere between 2013 and 2020, burning about 1 acre 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
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
4 June 2020Natural1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 March 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Cherry County

Storms near this place

28 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elsmere in 28 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 21 hail, 2 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
June 2010FloodElsmere$125,000Thunderstorms with prolonged heavy rain caused widespread flooding across southeast Cherry County. Several rural roads along Goose Creek were severely damaged from flooding.
June 2010FloodElsmere$35,000The Department of Roads reported several roadways had water running across them across southeast Cherry County. At one location west of Elsmere, Goose Creek was reported still rising at 10 AM CDT, some 6 hours after the rain began. Rainfall in the area was reported to be in excess of 3 inches.
August 2001HailElsmere$20,000no account filed
July 2000HailElsmere$10,000A funnel cloud reported.
July 2000HailElsmere$5,000no account filed
July 2020HailElsmere-Public reported quarter size hail near Elsmere.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindElsmere-Public estimated 60 mph wind gust near Elsmere.
July 2020HailElsmere-A trained weather spotter reported golf ball size hail.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindElsmere-Tops blown out of older trees and large tree branches down.
June 2010Tornado (EF0)Elsmere-A tornado briefly touched down over open range land.
June 2009Heavy RainElsmere-Rainfall of 2 inches in 30 minutes was reported.
April 2009HailElsmere-Nickel size hail was reported 30 miles southwest of Ainsworth.
August 2008Tornado (EF0)Elsmere-The tornado touched down briefly east of Highway 83 along Goose Creek. The tornado uprooted trees and broke off tree limbs.
July 2014HailElsmere-no account filed
July 2013HailElsmere-no account filed
May 2013HailElsmere-no account filed
July 2010HailElsmere-no account filed
July 2010HailElsmere-no account filed
June 2009HailElsmere-no account filed
August 2009HailElsmere-no account filed
August 2009HailElsmere-no account filed
May 2007HailElsmere-no account filed
May 2003HailElsmere-no account filed
June 2001HailElsmere-no account filed
May 1999HailElsmere-no account filed
June 1999HailElsmere-no account filed
May 1996HailElsmere-no account filed
June 1996HailElsmere-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cherry 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
Falter Place4.8 miles9
Cascade10.7 miles9
Hartgraves Place11.5 miles10
Piercy Place14.9 miles10
Brownlee24.8 miles9
Conterra30.6 miles9
Wood Lake32.8 miles9
Arabia40.3 miles8

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 ElsmereAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5367694The 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 835299. 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.