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.
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
Evangelical United Brethren Churchlisted 2013
Moses Merrill Baptist Camplisted 2004
Population over time
2 figuresFullerton 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,307 | |
| 2020 | 1,244 | -63 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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.
- 1896 USGS Stromsburg quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fullerton quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS David City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2005Regional 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 burning | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 April 2009 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 4.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 16 March 2009 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 1 March 2005 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
60 of 94 shownRegional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fullerton | $500,000 | Wind gusts estimated to be near 70 MPH resulted in flipped irrigation pivots in eastern Nance County. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fullerton | $150,000 | no account filed |
| October 2000 | Tornado (F1) | Fullerton | $125,000 | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fullerton | $100,000 | Several 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 2001 | Tornado (F1) | Fullerton | $75,000 | Tornado entered Nance County from Merrick County. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Fullerton | $75,000 | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fullerton | $75,000 | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fullerton | $50,000 | Wind 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 2008 | Flash Flood | Fullerton | $50,000 | Thunderstorms 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 2003 | Hail | Fullerton | $50,000 | A narrow swath of crop damage from southwest of Fullerton to south of Fullerton produced widespread corn and soybean damage. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Fullerton | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Fullerton | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Fullerton | $50,000 | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Fullerton | $40,000 | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Fullerton | $40,000 | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Fullerton | $40,000 | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Tornado (EF1) | Fullerton | $25,000 | This 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 2014 | Hail | Fullerton | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Fullerton | $25,000 | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fullerton | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fullerton | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fullerton | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fullerton | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | Fullerton | $20,000 | At 720CST water from Plum Creek was running across highway 22 between Fullerton and Genoa. |
| September 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fullerton | $20,000 | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fullerton | $20,000 | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fullerton | $20,000 | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Fullerton | $15,000 | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Fullerton | $15,000 | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fullerton | $15,000 | no account filed |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fullerton | $10,000 | Report 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 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fullerton | $10,000 | Shingles reported blown off shed with doors blown open. |
| October 2000 | Tornado (F0) | Fullerton | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Fullerton | $10,000 | no account filed |
| October 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Fullerton | $5,000 | A brief tornado that caused some minor damage. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fullerton | $5,000 | no account filed |
| October 2000 | Hail | Fullerton | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fullerton | $5,000 | no account filed |
| September 1997 | Hail | Fullerton | $5,000 | no account filed |
| October 2000 | Hail | Fullerton | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Tornado (F0) | Fullerton | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fullerton | - | Wind gusts estimated to be near 60 MPH resulted in some minor tree damage in Fullerton. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fullerton | - | A wind gust of 60 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located eight miles north-northeast of Palmer. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fullerton | - | A wind gust of 64 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located 8 miles north-northeast of Palmer. |
| June 2018 | Heavy Rain | Fullerton | - | 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 2017 | Hail | Fullerton | - | A slowly moving severe thunderstorm dropped hail ranging in size from quarters to baseballs in the Fullerton area. |
| September 2016 | Heavy Rain | Fullerton | - | Rainfall total from the past 24 hours was 5.02 inches. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Fullerton | - | Penny to nickel size hail was reported. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Fullerton | - | Delete me. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Fullerton | - | Quarter sized hail was reported near Plum Creek Bridge. |
| April 2013 | Hail | Fullerton | - | Hail the size of peas to quarters was completely covering the ground. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fullerton | - | Wind gusts were estimated at 60 MPH. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fullerton | - | Winds estimated at 60 mph, with broken tree limbs reported. |
| July 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Fullerton | - | A brief tornado touched down west of Fullerton. |
| October 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Fullerton | - | Brief touchdown of a weak tornado south of Fullerton. |
| September 2023 | Hail | Fullerton | - | no account filed |
| August 2020 | Hail | Fullerton | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Fullerton | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Fullerton | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fullerton | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Merchiston | 4.8 miles | 13 | |
| North Star | 8.8 miles | 13 | |
| Belgrade | 9.2 miles | 13 | |
| Krakow | 11.7 miles | 13 | |
| Timber Creek | 13.4 miles | 13 | |
| Genoa | 13.9 miles | 13 |
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 Fullerton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q957906 | 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 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.





