Hallam, Nebraska
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Buda precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68368. The Survey maps it on the Hallam quadrangle. 268 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,486 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresHallam grew from 213 to 268 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 | 213 | |
| 2020 | 268 | +55 (+26%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 14 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 Hallam quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
40 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Hallam between 2000 and 2020, burning about 619 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 | 24 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2000 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 28 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 4 July 2007 | Fireworks | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 4 July 2007 | Fireworks | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 5 June 2010 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 8 April 2009 | Debris and open burning | 16 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 4 April 2010 | Debris and open burning | 81 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 3 April 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
13 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hallam in 13 storm reports between 1997 and 2009: 9 hail, 3 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 death and 30 injuries. 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 2004 | Tornado (F4) | Hallam | 1 killed, 30 hurt, $100,000,000 | See description below. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hallam | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at over 60 mph caused tree damage in town and also knocked the lid off of the town's water tower. Some corn was also flattened in the area. |
| March 2006 | Hail | Hallam | - | Hailed for 5 minutes covering the ground. |
| May 2002 | Hail | Hallam | - | A storm spotter reported a rather heavy accumulation of hail up to nickel size. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Hallam | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Hallam | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Hallam | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Hallam | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Hallam | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Hallam | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Hallam | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Hallam | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Hallam | - | 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.
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 Hallam | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2685820 | 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 829756. 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.





