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Fordyce, Nebraska

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Precinct 9A. It lies in ZIP code area 68736. The Survey maps it on the Fordyce quadrangle. 134 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,371 feet above sea level.

Fordyce within Cedar County

Population over time

2 figures

Fordyce fell from 139 to 134 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
2010139
2020134-5 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

16 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Fordyce between 2005 and 2020, burning about 82 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 burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Fireworks1

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
27 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
5 July 2012Smoking1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
25 July 2018Smoking1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
13 July 2007Fireworksunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
22 June 2012Smoking1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
26 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
21 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cedar County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Fordyce: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Backus Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Cedar County

Storms near this place

31 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fordyce in 31 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 18 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2025Thunderstorm WindFordyce-Measured wind gust of 58 mph from a mesonet.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindFordyce-Measured wind gust of 63 mph from a mesonet.
April 2025HailFordyce-Public caller reported lots of hail falling down with the largest being ping pong ball sized.
May 2024HailFordyce-A report of half dollar sized hail was relayed to the office by the 911 Call Center.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindFordyce-A personal weather station recorded a 65 miles per hour wind gust.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindFordyce-A mesonet recorded a 63 miles per hour wind gust.
July 2024Flash FloodFordyce-The office received a report from a trained spotter of water flowing over several roads including 888th road near Fordyce.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindFordyce-A personal weather station measured a peak wind gust of 73 mph.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindFordyce-Personal weather station measured a peak wind gust of 75 mph.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindFordyce-Trained spotter estimated peak wind gusts at 60 mph.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindFordyce-Public reported multiple large 10-inch tree limbs blown down.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindFordyce-A home weather station reported a gust to 60 mph 3 1/2 miles west of Fordyce.
August 2017Funnel CloudFordyce-A funnel cloud was sighted west of Fordyce.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindFordyce-Very strong winds were reported, likely over 60 mph, that were breaking tree branches and reducing visibility in blow sand.
May 2013HailFordyce-The hail was reported near the Jct of Highways 12 and 81.
June 2003HailFordyce-Hail up to nickel size fell for around 5 minutes near the Knox county border northwest of Fordyce.
June 2003HailFordyce-Hail up to 2 inches in diameter was reported in Fordyce.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindFordyce-Estimated by public. Some tree limbs downed.
June 2000HailFordyce-See the narrative for 6 NW of Crofton in Knox county beginning at 1955 CST.
September 1997HailFordyce-Hail from a thunderstorm destroyed and/or damaged soybean crops.
July 2018HailFordyce-no account filed
May 2018HailFordyce-no account filed
June 2014HailFordyce-no account filed
May 2013HailFordyce-no account filed
August 2007HailFordyce-no account filed
May 2007HailFordyce-no account filed
September 2005HailFordyce-no account filed
August 2004HailFordyce-no account filed
August 2002HailFordyce-no account filed
July 2002HailFordyce-no account filed
September 1998HailFordyce-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cedar 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
Constance3.9 miles9
Bow Valley6.1 miles9
Menominee6.1 miles10
Pleasant Valley6.8 miles9
Hartington7.4 miles9
Saint Helena9.7 miles10
South Yankton10.6 miles10
Aten10.6 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 FordyceAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3287845The 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 829344. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.