Garland, Nebraska
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Precinct H. It lies in ZIP code area 68360. The Survey maps it on the Garland quadrangle. 210 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,575 feet above sea level.
On record in Garland
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 1 record
Germantown State Bank Buildinglisted 1984
Population over time
2 figuresGarland fell from 216 to 210 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 | 216 | |
| 2020 | 210 | -6 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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.
- 1897 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Garland quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
32 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Garland between 2003 and 2020, burning about 2,192 acres in total. 1 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 | 21 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 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 August 2017 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 20 July 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 9 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 May 2011 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 2 May 2017 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 10 May 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 80 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 10 May 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 80 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 9 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
21 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Garland in 21 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 17 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1995 | Hail | Garland | $100,000 | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Flash Flood | Garland | - | Water was reported over roads along the Lower Oak Creek upstream from Branched Oak Lake. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Garland | - | Public reported widespread hail damage to home, back window broken out in automobile. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Garland | - | Public reported 1.5 inch hail and broken skylight and windows. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Garland | - | Broadcast media relayed report of 2.25-inch hail at a Seward car wash. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Garland | - | Trained spotter reported 1-inch hail. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garland | - | Emergency manager reported siding blown off of a shed. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garland | - | One inch hail was accompanied by thunderstorm winds estimated at around 60 mph. The wind and hail flattened some crops in the area. |
| July 2012 | Hail | Garland | - | Hail around 1 inch in diameter was reported in the Garland area. The hail was accompanied by winds estimated at around 60 mph. The wind and hail flattened some crops nearby. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garland | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph were observed near Garland. The winds were associated with the supercell thunderstorm that spawned 2 tornadoes in the Ulysses area. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Garland | - | The hail was also accompanied by very strong winds, the speed of which was unknown at the time. |
| March 2007 | Hail | Garland | - | Hail up to half dollar size was reported around the Garland area. |
| July 2006 | Hail | Garland | - | The hail covered the ground white. A few were around golf ball size or maybe a touch bigger. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Garland | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Garland | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Garland | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Garland | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Garland | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Garland | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Garland | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Garland | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bee | 5.7 miles | 11 | |
| Seward | 6.5 miles | 14 | |
| Ruby | 9.2 miles | 15 | |
| Staplehurst | 10.1 miles | 14 | |
| Pleasant Dale | 10.9 miles | 15 | |
| Riverside Park | 11.4 miles | 15 | |
| Grover | 11.7 miles | 15 | |
| Marysville (historical) | 11.9 miles | 14 |
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 Garland | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2489848 | 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 829465. 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.





