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Gandy, Nebraska

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Logan precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69163. The Survey maps it on the Gandy quadrangle. 34 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,897 feet above sea level.

Gandy within Logan County

Population over time

2 figures

Gandy grew from 32 to 34 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
201032
202034+2 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

11 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Gandy between 2001 and 2020, burning about 23 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Fireworks2
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
4 July 2017Fireworks1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
4 July 2017Fireworks1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
12 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
12 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
1 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Logan County

Storms near this place

20 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gandy in 20 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 16 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 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 2014HailGandy$10,000Wind driven golf ball size hail broke out all the large west facing windows on home.
February 2012Thunderstorm WindGandy$5,000Doors blown off of machine shed.
July 2025HailGandy-Severe damage to corn crops in this area.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindGandy-No significant damage reported from this wind gust.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindGandy-Hail was reported to half inch as well.
June 2011Flash FloodGandy-From 6 miles southeast to 10 miles east southeast of Stapleton, state highway 92 was reported underwater due to heavy rain.
August 2021HailGandy-no account filed
June 2020HailGandy-no account filed
August 2016HailGandy-no account filed
June 2016HailGandy-no account filed
May 2016HailGandy-no account filed
May 2016HailGandy-no account filed
May 2016HailGandy-no account filed
July 2015HailGandy-no account filed
April 2014HailGandy-no account filed
August 2010HailGandy-no account filed
July 2009HailGandy-no account filed
July 2008HailGandy-no account filed
June 1996HailGandy-no account filed
July 1996HailGandy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Logan 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
Stapleton3.0 miles13
Hoagland5.3 miles11
Logan8.6 miles9

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 GandyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2443354The 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 829449. 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.