Gladstone, Nebraska
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lincoln precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68352. The Survey maps it on the Gladstone quadrangle. It stands 1,542 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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.
- 1955 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Gladstone quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Fairbury quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
19 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Gladstone between 2010 and 2020, burning about 322 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 | 15 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 12 May 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 26 April 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 2 April 2011 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 2 April 2011 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 14 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 29 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
14 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gladstone in 14 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 8 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1996 | Tornado (F1) | Gladstone | $250,000 | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gladstone | $1,000 | A thunderstorm wind gust estimated at over 60 mph destroyed a calf barn by throwing it's roof onto a nearby heifer barn and knocking down it's walls. Fortunately no cattle were injured. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Gladstone | - | Trained spotter report of hail up to 0.88 in. in diameter. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gladstone | - | Emergency manager reported a semi blown over. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gladstone | - | Emergency manager reported a semi truck blown over on Highway 136. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gladstone | - | Emergency manager reported downed powerlines. |
| June 2018 | Flash Flood | Gladstone | - | Gravel roads in and around Reynolds impassable as they were covered by water. Some bridges were covered with water. 4 to 8 1/2 inches of rain fell across the area west of Fairbury and around Reynolds that caused flash flooding. |
| April 2012 | Hail | Gladstone | - | Hail up to 1 inch in diameter fell for about a minute west of Fairbury. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Gladstone | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Gladstone | - | no account filed |
| October 2016 | Hail | Gladstone | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Gladstone | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Gladstone | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Gladstone | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Powell | 4.4 miles | 10 | |
| Hedrix | 4.7 miles | 11 | |
| Meridian (historical) | 4.9 miles | 10 | |
| Thompson | 6.8 miles | 11 | |
| Fairbury | 6.9 miles | 11 | |
| Reynolds | 7.1 miles | 11 | |
| Helvey | 7.9 miles | 10 | |
| Bower (historical) | 9.8 miles | 10 |
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 Gladstone | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q18151650 | 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 829530. 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.




