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Exeter, Nebraska

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Exeter-Fairmont Consolidated Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68351. The Survey maps it on the Exeter quadrangle. 523 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,611 feet above sea level.

Exeter within Fillmore County

On record in Exeter

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

Exeter fell from 591 to 523 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
2010591
2020523-68 (-12%)

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

13 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Exeter between 2003 and 2018, burning about 212 acres 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
Debris and open burning9
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
9 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
21 April 2009Debris and open burning55 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 March 2017Railroad operations and maintenance8.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
19 March 2009Debris and open burning32 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 February 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
18 February 2017Debris and open burning15 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
7 December 2010Debris and open burning6.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 December 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fillmore County

Storms near this place

36 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Exeter in 36 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 23 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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
May 2014Tornado (EF3)Exeter$7,500,000This tornado was the second to be rated an EF3 that affected south central Nebraska, starting in far northern Fillmore County before traversing a portion of York County and passing north of Cordova in Seward County. Damage along the track in Fillmore County was widespread, including one home which was totally destroyed. All 6 occupants took shelter in the basement. Another home suffered less significant damage, but outbuildings on the same property were destroyed. Also along the path of this tornado, and to the south of the path where rear flank downdraft winds occurred, numerous irrigation pivots were overturned, power poles were broken as well as trees and grain bins either damaged or destroyed. The strongest and widest time of this tornado occurred in Seward County, with a peak wind estimated to be 140 MPH and a maximum width of 2,640 yards, or 1.5 miles.
June 2014HailExeter$150,000This golf ball size hail report was received. This hail damaged the siding to a house.
May 2011HailExeter$100,000no account filed
June 2017HailExeter$75,000no account filed
May 2011HailExeter$25,000no account filed
May 1998HailExeter$20,000no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindExeter$15,000no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindExeter$15,000no account filed
June 2001HailExeter$10,000no account filed
March 2009HailExeter$5,000no account filed
May 2017Tornado (EF0)Exeter$3,000A brief landspout tornado touched down northeast of Exeter. Damage was minimal along its short path, with some tin taken off a roof and an auger turned over. The maximum wind speed was estimated to be 70 MPH.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindExeter$2,000Wind gusts estimated to be near 60 MPH resulted in some tree limbs of 2-4 inches in diameter blown down onto Highway 6.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindExeter$2,000Wind gusts estimated to be near 60 MPH resulted in tree damage in the area. Some limbs were down on Highway 6 between Roads 18 and 19.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindExeter-A wind gust of 59 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located five miles southeast of McCool Junction.
June 2018Heavy RainExeter-A rainfall total of 3.77 inches occurred in Exeter. Street flooding was reported.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindExeter-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 MPH.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindExeter-Winds accompanied by very heavy rain.
August 1995HailExeter-Thunderstorms producing hail up to golf ball-size and wind gusts up to 80 mph caused extensive crop damage across the southern portions of Sherman and Howard Counties, northern Buffalo County and western Hall County. Hardest hit was Sherman County, which sustained $3.5 million in crop damage. Several grain bins were destroyed while numerous trees and power lines were downed. Two tornadoes were also spawned by the storms. In Grand Island, the roof of a high school building was damaged by the thunderstorm winds, and 1,000 vehicles and numerous houses suffered hail damage. Hail accumulated into drifts. The hail, combined with rainfall amounts up to four inches in less than one hour, caused minor street flooding in Grand Island.
July 2024HailExeter-no account filed
June 2018HailExeter-no account filed
June 2017HailExeter-no account filed
June 2011HailExeter-no account filed
July 2011HailExeter-no account filed
March 2006HailExeter-no account filed
March 2006HailExeter-no account filed
September 2006Thunderstorm WindExeter-no account filed
April 2005HailExeter-no account filed
June 2005HailExeter-no account filed
May 2005HailExeter-no account filed
May 2001HailExeter-no account filed
June 2001HailExeter-no account filed
June 2001HailExeter-no account filed
August 2001HailExeter-no account filed
July 2000HailExeter-no account filed
April 1999Tornado (F0)Exeter-no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindExeter-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fillmore 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
Burress5.1 miles15
Sawyer (historical)5.1 miles15
Townhall6.9 miles10
Fairmont7.2 miles15
Milligan10.5 miles10
Geneva11.2 miles15
Grafton14.0 miles15
Ohiowa15.9 miles10

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 ExeterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2674441The 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 829188. 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.