Emerson, Nebraska
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Emerson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68733. The Survey maps it on the Emerson quadrangle. 840 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,493 feet above sea level.
On record in Emerson
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
- Emerson City Parklisted 2018
Population over time
2 figuresEmerson grew from 840 to 840 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 | 840 | |
| 2020 | 840 | 0 (0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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.
- 1955 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Emerson quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Sioux City South quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Emerson between 2001 and 2013, burning about 1 acre in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 July 2001 | Smoking | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 5 April 2013 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Winnebago Agency | BIA #424 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
10 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Emerson in 10 storm reports between 2000 and 2011: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Emerson | $100,000 | Thunderstorm winds caused tree and power line damage, resulting in power outages. Large trees downed by the winds blocked state highway 35. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Emerson | $100,000 | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including numerous large branches down. |
| June 2003 | Lightning | Emerson | $5,000 | Lightning struck a house, starting a roof fire. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Emerson | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including up to 6 inch diameter branches blown down. |
| April 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Emerson | - | A brief tornado caused no reported damage. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Emerson | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Emerson | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Emerson | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Emerson | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Emerson | - | 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 Emerson | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2192836 | 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 829108. 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.




