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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.

Gladstone within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

19 since 2010

Regional 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 burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
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
26 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
12 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
26 April 2014Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
2 April 2011Debris and open burning20 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
2 April 2011Debris and open burning5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
14 April 2015Debris and open burning15 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
7 March 2015Debris and open burning40 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
29 March 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

14 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1996Tornado (F1)Gladstone$250,000no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindGladstone$1,000A 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 2025HailGladstone-Trained spotter report of hail up to 0.88 in. in diameter.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindGladstone-Emergency manager reported a semi blown over.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindGladstone-Emergency manager reported a semi truck blown over on Highway 136.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindGladstone-Emergency manager reported downed powerlines.
June 2018Flash FloodGladstone-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 2012HailGladstone-Hail up to 1 inch in diameter fell for about a minute west of Fairbury.
June 2018HailGladstone-no account filed
June 2017HailGladstone-no account filed
October 2016HailGladstone-no account filed
June 2015HailGladstone-no account filed
June 2011HailGladstone-no account filed
July 2000HailGladstone-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Powell4.4 miles10
Hedrix4.7 miles11
Meridian (historical)4.9 miles10
Thompson6.8 miles11
Fairbury6.9 miles11
Reynolds7.1 miles11
Helvey7.9 miles10
Bower (historical)9.8 miles10

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 GladstoneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18151650The 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.