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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.

Emerson within Dixon County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Emerson 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.

YearPeople Change
2010840
20208400 (0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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 2001

Regional 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 minor1
Smoking1

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 July 2001Smokingunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
5 April 2013Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresWinnebago AgencyBIA #424

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dixon County

Storms near this place

10 since 2000

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2003Thunderstorm WindEmerson$100,000Thunderstorm winds caused tree and power line damage, resulting in power outages. Large trees downed by the winds blocked state highway 35.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindEmerson$100,000Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including numerous large branches down.
June 2003LightningEmerson$5,000Lightning struck a house, starting a roof fire.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindEmerson-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including up to 6 inch diameter branches blown down.
April 2001Tornado (F0)Emerson-A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindEmerson-no account filed
June 2008HailEmerson-no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindEmerson-no account filed
April 2001HailEmerson-no account filed
April 2001HailEmerson-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dixon 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
Wakefield7.4 miles9
Allen11.4 miles9
Waterbury12.4 miles9
Concord15.6 miles9
Martinsburg16.8 miles18
Dixon17.2 miles9
Ponca19.6 miles20
Newcastle26.9 miles19

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 EmersonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2192836The 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.