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Hickman, Nebraska

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Saltillo precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68372. The Survey maps it on the Cortland quadrangle. 2,607 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,266 feet above sea level.

Hickman within Lancaster County

Population over time

2 figures

Hickman grew from 1,657 to 2,607 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
20101,657
20202,607+950 (+57%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

45 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Hickman between 2001 and 2020, burning about 96 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
7 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
9 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
5 August 2012Debris and open burning12 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
29 August 2012Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
27 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
20 August 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
29 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
24 July 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lancaster County

Storms near this place

20 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hickman in 20 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 11 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
May 2024Thunderstorm WindHickman-A 58 mph wind gust was measured by a personal weather station.
September 2024HailHickman-The office received a public report form mPING of quarter sized hail.
June 2020Flash FloodHickman-Lancaster emergency management reported water over road ways.
May 2019Heavy RainHickman-The public reported 2.40 inches of rain near Hickman.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindHickman-An area of wind damage was surveyed and appeared to be caused by straight-lined winds. The damage consisted of some minor outbuilding damage, large tree limbs down, and center irrigation pivots overturned.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindHickman-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 40 to 50 mph caused a boat carrying 3 people to capsize during a fishing tournament at Wagon Train Lake near Hickman. One man drowned.
March 2009Tornado (EF1)Hickman-This is the first of 5 cyclic tornadoes that a low-topped supercell thunderstorm produced at it tracked southeast through east of the Lincoln. The first tornado touched down around 4 miles south of Hickman uprooting some trees and causing farm outbuilding and other tree damage along its path.
June 2006HailHickman-Hail from 3/4 to 1 inch in diameter was reported from 5 miles south of Hickman into Hickman.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindHickman-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph destroyed a shed and did some tree damage in Hickman.
June 2003Flash FloodHickman-Rainfall of 3.5 to 4.5 inches in the southeast part of Lancaster county caused some flash flooding from around Hickman toward Panama. Upper Salt Creek flooded the city park in Hickman and a few county roads in the area.
October 2002Thunderstorm WindHickman-Thunderstorm winds blew down 3 trees in the Hickman area.
April 2010HailHickman-no account filed
July 2006HailHickman-no account filed
June 2005HailHickman-no account filed
June 2004HailHickman-no account filed
May 2003HailHickman-no account filed
June 2000HailHickman-no account filed
June 1998HailHickman-no account filed
June 1998HailHickman-no account filed
May 1997HailHickman-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
Holland2.6 miles14
Roca3.0 miles15
Hanlon3.5 miles15
Princeton5.1 miles15
Sprague6.1 miles15
Firth6.2 miles14
Saltillo6.2 miles15
Jamaica6.3 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 HickmanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q963980The 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 829946. 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.