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Fullerton, Nebraska

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Fullerton City. It lies in ZIP code area 68638. The Survey maps it on the Fullerton quadrangle. 1,244 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,647 feet above sea level.

Fullerton within Nance County

On record in Fullerton

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

Fullerton fell from 1,307 to 1,244 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
20101,307
20201,244-63 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

3 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Fullerton between 2005 and 2009, burning about 13 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 burning2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
20 April 2009Railroad operations and maintenance4.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
16 March 2009Debris and open burning5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
1 March 2005Debris and open burning4.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nance County

Storms near this place

60 of 94 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fullerton in 94 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 55 hail, 26 thunderstorm wind, 8 tornado, 2 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
May 2023Thunderstorm WindFullerton$500,000Wind gusts estimated to be near 70 MPH resulted in flipped irrigation pivots in eastern Nance County.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindFullerton$150,000no account filed
October 2000Tornado (F1)Fullerton$125,000no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindFullerton$100,000Several trees, including one 18 inches in diameter, were damaged and a roof was blown off of a building in the Fullerton. Tree damage was also reported in the Belgrade area.
October 2001Tornado (F1)Fullerton$75,000Tornado entered Nance County from Merrick County.
May 2012HailFullerton$75,000no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindFullerton$75,000no account filed
July 2011Thunderstorm WindFullerton$50,000Wind gusts were estimated between 50 and 60 MPH in the Fullerton area. Tree damage was reported in Fullerton, with 1 vehicle damaged when tree limbs were blown down.
May 2008Flash FloodFullerton$50,000Thunderstorms rolled across southeast Nance County during the evening and nighttime hours and dumped several inches of rain. This caused roads and small creeks to quickly flood.
June 2003HailFullerton$50,000A narrow swath of crop damage from southwest of Fullerton to south of Fullerton produced widespread corn and soybean damage.
May 2025HailFullerton$50,000no account filed
June 2014HailFullerton$50,000no account filed
July 1997HailFullerton$50,000no account filed
May 2001HailFullerton$40,000no account filed
June 1997HailFullerton$40,000no account filed
June 1997HailFullerton$40,000no account filed
May 2024Tornado (EF1)Fullerton$25,000This EF1 rated tornado started in extreme eastern Howard County and ended in extreme southern Nance County, with most of its time spent in Merrick County north-northeast of Palmer. There were several spots of tree damage along its roughly 7 mile path. The most significant damage was to an outbuilding and large cottonwood trees northeast of Palmer. The estimated peak wind speed of 95 MPH was estimated based upon the damage at this particular farmstead.
June 2014HailFullerton$25,000no account filed
May 2012HailFullerton$25,000no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindFullerton$25,000no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindFullerton$25,000no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindFullerton$25,000no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindFullerton$25,000no account filed
June 2008Flash FloodFullerton$20,000At 720CST water from Plum Creek was running across highway 22 between Fullerton and Genoa.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindFullerton$20,000no account filed
September 2006Thunderstorm WindFullerton$20,000no account filed
May 2002Thunderstorm WindFullerton$20,000no account filed
May 2012HailFullerton$15,000no account filed
August 2009HailFullerton$15,000no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindFullerton$15,000no account filed
December 2021Thunderstorm WindFullerton$10,000Report received from Twitter showed a shed with roof loss and a small outbuilding damaged one mile north of Fullerton. A wind gust of 60 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located six miles west-northwest of Fullerton.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindFullerton$10,000Shingles reported blown off shed with doors blown open.
October 2000Tornado (F0)Fullerton$10,000no account filed
May 1998HailFullerton$10,000no account filed
October 2001Tornado (F0)Fullerton$5,000A brief tornado that caused some minor damage.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindFullerton$5,000no account filed
October 2000HailFullerton$5,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindFullerton$5,000no account filed
September 1997HailFullerton$5,000no account filed
October 2000HailFullerton$2,000no account filed
June 2000Tornado (F0)Fullerton$2,000no account filed
May 2024Thunderstorm WindFullerton-Wind gusts estimated to be near 60 MPH resulted in some minor tree damage in Fullerton.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindFullerton-A wind gust of 60 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located eight miles north-northeast of Palmer.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindFullerton-A wind gust of 64 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located 8 miles north-northeast of Palmer.
June 2018Heavy RainFullerton-A 24-hour rain total of 4.03 inches occurred three miles northwest of Fullerton. This report is from an automated gauge along the Cedar River.
August 2017HailFullerton-A slowly moving severe thunderstorm dropped hail ranging in size from quarters to baseballs in the Fullerton area.
September 2016Heavy RainFullerton-Rainfall total from the past 24 hours was 5.02 inches.
June 2014HailFullerton-Penny to nickel size hail was reported.
June 2014HailFullerton-Delete me.
June 2013HailFullerton-Quarter sized hail was reported near Plum Creek Bridge.
April 2013HailFullerton-Hail the size of peas to quarters was completely covering the ground.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindFullerton-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 MPH.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindFullerton-Winds estimated at 60 mph, with broken tree limbs reported.
July 2003Tornado (F0)Fullerton-A brief tornado touched down west of Fullerton.
October 2001Tornado (F0)Fullerton-Brief touchdown of a weak tornado south of Fullerton.
September 2023HailFullerton-no account filed
August 2020HailFullerton-no account filed
June 2018HailFullerton-no account filed
April 2015HailFullerton-no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindFullerton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nance 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
Merchiston4.8 miles13
North Star8.8 miles13
Belgrade9.2 miles13
Krakow11.7 miles13
Timber Creek13.4 miles13
Genoa13.9 miles13

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 FullertonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q957906The 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 829430. 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.