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Elwood, Nebraska

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Elwood 7-22 precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68937. The Survey maps it on the Elwood quadrangle. 658 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,667 feet above sea level.

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Elwood within Gosper County

On record in Elwood

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Elwood fell from 707 to 658 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
2010707
2020658-49 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

11 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Elwood between 2004 and 2020, burning about 175 acres in total. 3 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
Natural3
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
27 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2008Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2008Natural1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
13 September 2004Naturalunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
2 August 2011Naturalunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
15 July 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
17 May 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 April 2020Equipment and vehicle use62 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gosper County

Storms near this place

60 of 136 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elwood in 136 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 84 hail, 43 thunderstorm wind, 6 tornado, 2 heavy rain. The reports record 4 injuries. 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 1998Tornado (F1)Elwood4 hurt, $500,000no account filed
September 2007HailElwood$200,000Quarter to golf ball size hail and 70 mph winds caused a swath of crop damage. ||
July 2014HailElwood$100,000Quarter size hail accompanied wind gusts of 60 MPH.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindElwood$100,000Wind gusts estimated at 60 MPH accompanied quarter size hail.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindElwood$100,000Winds estimated to at least 65 MPH knocked branches out of trees, overturned an irrigation pivot and damaged an outbuilding.
June 2012HailElwood$100,000no account filed
June 2012HailElwood$100,000no account filed
June 2000HailElwood$100,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindElwood$100,000no account filed
July 2007HailElwood$75,000no account filed
May 1999Tornado (F1)Elwood$75,000no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindElwood$60,000no account filed
June 2011HailElwood$50,000no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindElwood$50,000no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindElwood$50,000no account filed
May 1998HailElwood$50,000no account filed
June 2022HailElwood$40,000Quarter to ping pong ball size hail was reported in the area, including quarter size hail by the NWS Cooperative Observer located eight miles south of Elwood.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindElwood$35,000Wind gusts estimated at 60 MPH with damage to several cattle sheds was reported.
May 2000HailElwood$30,000no account filed
August 2021Thunderstorm WindElwood$25,000A wind gust of 70 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located three miles south-southeast of Johnson Lake. In this same area, a metal outbuilding was destroyed two miles north of Elwood.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindElwood$25,000Wind gusts were estimated to be near 65 MPH.
May 2023HailElwood$25,000no account filed
May 2023HailElwood$25,000no account filed
May 2005Thunderstorm WindElwood$25,000no account filed
September 2005HailElwood$25,000no account filed
July 2004HailElwood$25,000no account filed
August 1999Thunderstorm WindElwood$25,000no account filed
August 1999Thunderstorm WindElwood$25,000no account filed
June 1997HailElwood$20,000no account filed
June 2013HailElwood$15,000Quarter size hail occurred along with estimated wind gusts of 60 to 70 mph on Highway 283 near mile marker 30.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindElwood$15,000Wind gusts of 60 to 70 mph occurred along with quarter size hail on Highway 283 near mile marker 30.
June 2015HailElwood$15,000no account filed
August 2015Thunderstorm WindElwood$10,000Tree limbs that were about four inches in diameter were blown down due to thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2005HailElwood$10,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindElwood$10,000no account filed
June 1998HailElwood$10,000no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindElwood$5,000Strong winds estimated to around 65 MPH damaged a large tree.
July 2019HailElwood$5,000no account filed
June 2011HailElwood$5,000no account filed
June 2011HailElwood$5,000no account filed
June 2011HailElwood$5,000no account filed
May 2008HailElwood$5,000no account filed
May 2008HailElwood$5,000no account filed
May 2004HailElwood$5,000no account filed
August 2001HailElwood$5,000no account filed
May 1998HailElwood$5,000no account filed
June 1998HailElwood$5,000no account filed
July 1996HailElwood$5,000no account filed
August 2024Thunderstorm WindElwood$2,000Wind gusts estimated to be near 60 MPH resulted in some minor tree damage in Elwood.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindElwood$2,000Wind gusts were estimated to be near 70 MPH. A tree approximately 10 inches in diameter was snapped.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindElwood$1,000Wind gusts were estimated to be as high as 75 MPH. These winds resulted in blowing dust and reductions in visibility down to one-quarter of a mile at times. Tree damage was reported at their home.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindElwood-Wind gusts estimated to be near 60 MPH resulted in a few downed tree limbs up to 3 inches in diameter.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindElwood-A wind gust of 58 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located three miles south of Johnson Lake.
October 2023HailElwood-Hail up to the size of quarters was accompanied by wind gusts estimated to be near 50 MPH.
September 2022Thunderstorm WindElwood-A wind gust of 65 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located three miles south of Johnson Lake.
June 2020HailElwood-Quarter size hail was reported to be covering Highway 283 approximately 6 miles north of Arapahoe.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindElwood-Wind gusts of 60 MPH and 70 MPH were measured on a hand-held anemometer.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindElwood-Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH.
May 2017Heavy RainElwood-A rainfall total of 3.28 inches over the past 24 hours was reported.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindElwood-Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH. Some small tree limbs were downed.

Every storm recorded in Gosper 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
Devils Gap1.0 miles17
Smithfield6.4 miles16

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 ElwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2061397The 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 829101. 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.