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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.

Hallam within Lancaster County

Population over time

2 figures

Hallam 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.

YearPeople Change
2010213
2020268+55 (+26%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

40 since 2000

Regional 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 burning24
Equipment and vehicle use8
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Fireworks2

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
30 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
4 July 2007Fireworksunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
4 July 2007Fireworksunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
5 June 2010Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
8 April 2009Debris and open burning16 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
4 April 2010Debris and open burning81 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
3 April 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lancaster County

Storms near this place

13 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2004Tornado (F4)Hallam1 killed, 30 hurt, $100,000,000See description below.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindHallam-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 2006HailHallam-Hailed for 5 minutes covering the ground.
May 2002HailHallam-A storm spotter reported a rather heavy accumulation of hail up to nickel size.
June 2007HailHallam-no account filed
June 2005HailHallam-no account filed
May 2004HailHallam-no account filed
June 2004HailHallam-no account filed
June 2004HailHallam-no account filed
May 2002HailHallam-no account filed
September 2001HailHallam-no account filed
May 1997Tornado (F0)Hallam-no account filed
May 1997Tornado (F0)Hallam-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lancaster 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
Princeton5.0 miles15
Kramer5.8 miles15
Sprague6.5 miles15
Martell7.0 miles15
Centerville8.3 miles15
Firth9.6 miles14
Hickman10.1 miles15
Hanlon10.3 miles15

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 HallamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2685820The 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.