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.
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
- Philip and Addie Ellis Eberhardt Farmsteadlisted 1991
Population over time
2 figuresExeter 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 591 | |
| 2020 | 523 | -68 (-12%) |
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 Lincoln quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Exeter quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS York quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
13 since 2003Regional 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 burning | 9 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 May 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 21 April 2009 | Debris and open burning | 55 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 6 March 2017 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 8.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 19 March 2009 | Debris and open burning | 32 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 6 February 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 18 February 2017 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 December 2010 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 6 December 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
36 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2014 | Tornado (EF3) | Exeter | $7,500,000 | This 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 2014 | Hail | Exeter | $150,000 | This golf ball size hail report was received. This hail damaged the siding to a house. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Exeter | $100,000 | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Exeter | $75,000 | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Exeter | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Exeter | $20,000 | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Exeter | $15,000 | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Exeter | $15,000 | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Exeter | $10,000 | no account filed |
| March 2009 | Hail | Exeter | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Tornado (EF0) | Exeter | $3,000 | A 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 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Exeter | $2,000 | Wind gusts estimated to be near 60 MPH resulted in some tree limbs of 2-4 inches in diameter blown down onto Highway 6. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Exeter | $2,000 | Wind 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 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Exeter | - | A wind gust of 59 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located five miles southeast of McCool Junction. |
| June 2018 | Heavy Rain | Exeter | - | A rainfall total of 3.77 inches occurred in Exeter. Street flooding was reported. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Exeter | - | Wind gusts were estimated at 60 MPH. |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Exeter | - | Winds accompanied by very heavy rain. |
| August 1995 | Hail | Exeter | - | 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 2024 | Hail | Exeter | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Exeter | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Exeter | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Exeter | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Exeter | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Exeter | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Exeter | - | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Exeter | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Exeter | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Exeter | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Exeter | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Exeter | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Exeter | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Exeter | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Exeter | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Exeter | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Exeter | - | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Exeter | - | 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 Exeter | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2674441 | 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 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.




