Emmet, Nebraska
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Emmet Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68734. The Survey maps it on the Emmet quadrangle. 46 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,028 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresEmmet fell from 48 to 46 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 | 48 | |
| 2020 | 46 | -2 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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 O'Neill quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS O'Neill quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Emmet quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1969 USGS O'Neill quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS O'Neill quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS O'Neill quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
6 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Emmet between 2011 and 2019, burning about 22 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 July 2017 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 22 July 2017 | Natural | 4.1 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 6 May 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 2 April 2014 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 8 November 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 15 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 6 October 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this place
27 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Emmet in 27 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 14 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 flash 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2003 | Tornado (F3) | Emmet | $5,700,000 | As the tornado initially touched down, it encountered a farmstead and destroyed three barns, a detached garage, and 3 large metal grain binds, and also ripped off a portion of the house roof, broke windows, and uprooted and snapped off 90% of the trees around the farmstead. As the tornado moved southeast, it hit two more farmsteads where it completely overturned a modular home, destroyed barns, snapped off nearly all trees. Further along the path to the southeast, the tornado threw farm machinery one quarter mile into a grove of trees. Then it hit another farm where it ripped off an attached garage on a house, broke most windows in the house, moved an old home off its foundation 2 feet, and killed one cow and extensively injured 14 other cows. A barn was also destroyed at a dairy farm across the road to the southeast. The tornado then moved southeast mainly across farmland destroying fields of corn and soybeans, overturning 200 hundred center pivot irrigation systems, snapping off 1,000 power poles, and breaking off numerous large trees. As the tornado passed 3 miles north of O'Neill, it destroyed storage sheds at numerous homesteads. Baseball size hail associated with the storm punctured holes in vinyl siding and broke windows and skylights in homes. Finally just before dissipating 2 miles north of Page, the tornado lifted the front porch on a home which then took off the roof and one exterior wall of the home. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Emmet | $1,000,000 | Fire Chief reported extensive storm damage due to thunderstorm winds at the Scribner Grain facility. The grain facility was damaged with power lines down, irrigation systems damaged and a grain bin and the rigging at the site damaged. |
| August 2007 | Hail | Emmet | $55,000 | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Emmet | $35,000 | The winds overturned center pivot irrigation systems. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Emmet | $30,000 | Damage to a grain bin, top caved in. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Emmet | $10,000 | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 MPH produced large tree damage at this location. |
| June 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Emmet | $5,000 | This tornado snapped off numerous trees and power poles as it moved east-southeast. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Emmet | - | A personal weather station reported a 58 mph wind gust near Emmet. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Emmet | - | Report of tree and power lines down along the highway near Emmet, NE. |
| April 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Emmet | - | Wind gusts estimated at 60 MPH at this location. |
| June 2016 | Flash Flood | Emmet | - | Highway 275/20 closed for a few hours due to water over the road. |
| June 2016 | Flash Flood | Emmet | - | Water running across Highway 20 six miles east of Atkinson. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Emmet | - | Trained spotter estimated thunderstorm wind gusts to 61 knots. |
| October 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Emmet | - | Two brief touchdowns were associated with this tornado, one 3 miles south southwest of Emmet and on 2 miles west of Emmet. |
| August 2024 | Hail | Emmet | - | no account filed |
| August 2024 | Hail | Emmet | - | no account filed |
| August 2024 | Hail | Emmet | - | no account filed |
| August 2024 | Hail | Emmet | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | Emmet | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Emmet | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Emmet | - | no account filed |
| August 2010 | Hail | Emmet | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Emmet | - | no account filed |
| September 2008 | Hail | Emmet | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Emmet | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Emmet | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Emmet | - | 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 Emmet | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2493010 | 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 829121. 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.





