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Fort Calhoun, Nebraska

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Township 1. It lies in ZIP code area 68023. It stands on Moores Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fort Calhoun quadrangle. 1,108 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,099 feet above sea level.

Fort Calhoun within Washington County

On record in Fort Calhoun

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Fort Calhoun grew from 908 to 1,108 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
2010908
20201,108+200 (+22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

35 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Fort Calhoun between 2002 and 2020, burning about 205 acres in total. 3 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
Debris and open burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
12 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
16 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
16 August 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
18 July 2020Smokingunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
8 June 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 June 2018Naturalunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
9 April 2019Debris and open burning3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
9 April 2016Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesMOVANEY FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Calhoun in 1 storm report in 1994: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 1994Thunderstorm WindFort Calhoun-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 65 to 70 mph occurred at the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
De Soto3.4 miles15
Nashville3.8 miles13
Blair8.0 miles9
Kennard9.5 miles14
Washington10.4 miles14
Orum14.4 miles8
Arlington17.2 miles15
Herman18.0 miles8

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 Fort CalhounAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q967173The 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 829350. 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.