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Herman, Nebraska

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Township 5. It lies in ZIP code area 68029. It stands on Hill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Herman quadrangle. 247 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,040 feet above sea level.

Herman within Washington County

Population over time

2 figures

Herman fell from 268 to 247 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
2010268
2020247-21 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

11 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Herman between 2001 and 2014, burning about 302 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 burning11

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
5 April 2014Debris and open burning140 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
27 April 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
26 April 2014Debris and open burning8.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
25 April 2014Debris and open burning80 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
21 April 2011Debris and open burning8.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
17 April 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
12 April 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
8 March 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

13 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Herman in 13 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 6 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
March 2007Tornado (EF1)Herman$15,000A tornado touched down 3 miles west of Herman around 235 pm CDT and tracked about 1 mile before lifting according to a NWS storm survey. The tornado's path was around 1/4 mile wide as it damaged some sheds and almost destroyed a horse barn. The tornado also snapped a few trees in the area and did some fence damage.
September 2000Thunderstorm WindHerman$3,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at over 60 mph damaged outbuildings near Herman.
April 2024HailHerman-The office received a public report of half dollar sized hail.
June 2024HailHerman-A trained spotter reported quarter sized hail.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindHerman-Thunderstorm winds of 60 to 70 mph, that were reported by a trained spotter, could have been the rear flank downdraft winds of a tornado that briefly touched down in the area.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindHerman-The public estimated thunderstorm wind gusts around 60 mph near Herman.
April 2002Thunderstorm WindHerman-Thunderstorm wind gusts downed power lines near Herman.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindHerman-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph caused extensive tree damage in Herman.
June 1998Flash FloodHerman-Some flooding near homes southwest of Herman. 8 to 12 inches of water flowed over Highway 75.
May 2007HailHerman-no account filed
April 2002HailHerman-no account filed
September 2001HailHerman-no account filed
September 2000HailHerman-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Orum9.3 miles8
Admah (historical)9.6 miles8
Blair10.1 miles9
Telbasta11.1 miles8
Kennard13.8 miles14
Fontanelle14.6 miles8
De Soto14.7 miles15
Arlington16.9 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 HermanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2013041The 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 829934. 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.