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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.

Garland within Seward County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Garland 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.

YearPeople Change
2010216
2020210-6 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

32 since 2003

Regional 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 burning21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1

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 August 2017Natural2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
20 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use15 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
9 May 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
7 May 2011Debris and open burning10 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
2 May 2017Debris and open burning10 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
10 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
10 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
9 April 2017Debris and open burning10 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Seward County

Storms near this place

21 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 1995HailGarland$100,000no account filed
July 2024Flash FloodGarland-Water was reported over roads along the Lower Oak Creek upstream from Branched Oak Lake.
June 2022HailGarland-Public reported widespread hail damage to home, back window broken out in automobile.
June 2022HailGarland-Public reported 1.5 inch hail and broken skylight and windows.
June 2022HailGarland-Broadcast media relayed report of 2.25-inch hail at a Seward car wash.
June 2022HailGarland-Trained spotter reported 1-inch hail.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindGarland-Emergency manager reported siding blown off of a shed.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindGarland-One inch hail was accompanied by thunderstorm winds estimated at around 60 mph. The wind and hail flattened some crops in the area.
July 2012HailGarland-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 2008Thunderstorm WindGarland-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 2007HailGarland-The hail was also accompanied by very strong winds, the speed of which was unknown at the time.
March 2007HailGarland-Hail up to half dollar size was reported around the Garland area.
July 2006HailGarland-The hail covered the ground white. A few were around golf ball size or maybe a touch bigger.
May 2019HailGarland-no account filed
June 2017HailGarland-no account filed
May 2011HailGarland-no account filed
June 2011HailGarland-no account filed
May 2007HailGarland-no account filed
June 2007HailGarland-no account filed
March 2006HailGarland-no account filed
June 2001HailGarland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Seward 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
Bee5.7 miles11
Seward6.5 miles14
Ruby9.2 miles15
Staplehurst10.1 miles14
Pleasant Dale10.9 miles15
Riverside Park11.4 miles15
Grover11.7 miles15
Marysville (historical)11.9 miles14

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 GarlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2489848The 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.