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.
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
Fort AtkinsonNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966
Alfred H. and Sarah Frahm Houselisted 2006
Population over time
2 figuresFort 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 908 | |
| 2020 | 1,108 | +200 (+22%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 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.
- 1893 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:125000
- 1896 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Fort Calhoun quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
35 since 2002Regional 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 burning | 20 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 September 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 16 August 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 16 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 18 July 2020 | Smoking | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 8 June 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 6 June 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 9 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 9 April 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | MOVANEY FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fort Calhoun | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 65 to 70 mph occurred at the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant. |
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 Fort Calhoun | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q967173 | 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 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.






