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Garrison, Nebraska

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68632. The Survey maps it on the Garrison quadrangle. 55 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,601 feet above sea level.

Garrison within Butler County

Population over time

2 figures

Garrison grew from 54 to 55 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
201054
202055+1 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

6 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Garrison between 2013 and 2020, burning about 10 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/undetermined3
Debris and open burning3

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
31 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
9 April 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
10 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
29 February 2020Debris and open burning5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
17 February 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
4 November 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butler County

Storms near this place

8 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Garrison in 8 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 6 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
August 2017FloodGarrison$100,000At least 50 roads were closed across Butler County due to widespread flooding with amounts of 4 to 6 inches reported. David City reported 6.01 inches of rain.
June 2022HailGarrison-Public reported 1.75 inch hail.
June 2012HailGarrison-Hail up to penny-size was observed a little east southeast of Garrison.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindGarrison-Thunderstorms winds estimated at around 60 mph downed some 2 to 3 inch in diameter tree branches near Garrison.
June 2018HailGarrison-no account filed
August 2014HailGarrison-no account filed
July 2009HailGarrison-no account filed
May 1999HailGarrison-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Butler 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
Millerton2.6 miles11
David City5.6 miles11
Rising City7.0 miles11
Ulysses7.5 miles11
Brainard8.7 miles11
Surprise9.0 miles11
Dwight10.1 miles11
Bellwood12.0 miles11

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 GarrisonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2406294The 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 829468. 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.