BlockHoag, Nebraska
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Blakely Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68310. It stands on Snake Creek. The Survey maps it on the Beatrice West quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 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.
- 1955 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Beatrice West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Beatrice quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
43 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Hoag between 2000 and 2020, burning about 159 acres in total. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 |
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 27 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | SW75 AND SCOTT RD |
| 19 August 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 8 July 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 5 July 2009 | Fireworks | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 26 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 21 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 2 July 2009 | Fireworks | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hoag: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lentz Pit & Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
24 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hoag in 24 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 2 flood, 2 heavy rain. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2025 | Flash Flood | Hoag | - | On the late morning and afternoon of July 21st, 2025, rounds of heavy rainfall repeatedly moved through central Gage County, Nebraska. Rain fell at an estimated rate of 2.5 to 3.5 inches per hour, with total rainfall reaching 3 to 5 inches, according to radar estimates. Several reports from the area confirmed 2.5 to 3.6 inches of rain. This intense downpour caused flash flooding, leading to emergency management reporting water running over the road approximately 7 miles west of Beatrice, near Ellis, NE. |
| August 2023 | Hail | Hoag | - | Public reported 1.5-inch hail. |
| August 2023 | Hail | Hoag | - | Public reported 1-inch hail. |
| August 2023 | Hail | Hoag | - | Trained spotter reported 1-inch hail. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hoag | - | Lincoln Forestry reported a large Oak limb down and an unsecured outbuilding tipped over. |
| June 2020 | Heavy Rain | Hoag | - | CoCoRaHS station reported a 24-hour rain total of 7.25 inches. |
| June 2020 | Heavy Rain | Hoag | - | Emergency management reported 24-hour rain total of 8.45 inches. |
| March 2019 | Flood | Hoag | - | This is for flooding along the Big Blue River. The river gage at Crete, operated by the Nebraska DNR, peaked at 26.89 feet at 11 pm on March 16th. Minor flood stage is 18 feet, moderate flood stage is 26 feet while major flood stage is 32 feet. River gage data is preliminary. Highway 136 was closed due to flooding. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hoag | - | Trees were blown onto the road near Hoag. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hoag | - | Power poles and tree trunks were snapped about 2 miles northwest of the Homestead National Monument. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hoag | - | A trained storm spotter measured an 81 mph wind gust 3.5 miles south of Hoag. There was substantial tree and power line damage. Center pivot irrigation systems were flipped and there was half inch diameter hail reported. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hoag | - | A storm chaser estimated a 100 mph wind gust from a thunderstorm. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hoag | - | A NWS storm survey confirms a several mile wide swath of wind damage from eastern Saline across Gage county. One of the most intense damage areas was approximately 3 miles northwest of Blue Springs where a barn was destroyed, the roof of a large shed caved in, several power poles snapped, and significant tree damage occurred. Additional areas of intense wind damage occurred in west Beatrice and southwest Wilber. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hoag | - | A storm chaser estimated an 80 mph wind gust southwest of Hoag. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hoag | - | An area of wind damage was surveyed to the northwest of the city of Beatrice. This damage appeared to be straight-lined in nature and consisted on tree branches from 1 to 3 inches in diameter and minor shed damage. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hoag | - | The Awos at Beatrice measured a thunderstorm wind gust of 64 mph at 655 pm CDT. These winds downed at least 1 tree blocking a road in Beatrice a few minutes later and also caused a large tree limb to fall onto a house west of town. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hoag | - | A spotter estimated thunderstorm wind gusts reached 60 mph. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Hoag | - | Hail at least up to quarter-size fell across the northern part of Gage county near the Pickrell area. The hail caused considerable crop damage in northern Gage county and was a continuation of the storm that caused over a million dollars of crop damage in Saline county. In Gage county crop damage alone was estimated at $90,000. |
| June 2008 | Flood | Hoag | - | Heavy rain producing thunderstorms that tracked across the Big Blue River basin on June 4th and 5th caused the Big Blue River to flood from near Surprise downstream into Gage county near Beatrice. Most of the flooding along the Big Blue River in Gage county began during the late afternoon and evening hours of June 5th. The river crested at Beatrice at 20.1 feet around 6pm CDT on June 6th. Flood stage is 16 feet. Although the river briefly fell below flood stage on the 7th, additional heavy rain producing thunderstorms on June 7th and 8th brought the river back up above flood stage at Beatrice with a second crest of 17 feet observed during the late evening hours of June 11th. The river finally dropped below flood stage at Beatrice a little after midnight on the 14th. The flooding in Gage county along the Blue River affected a park and a few roads in the Beatrice area and also closed a few county roads southeast of DeWitt. Agricultural lowlands were also flooded. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Hoag | - | Hail up to golfball-size was reported a mile or two east southeast of Dewitt, which is in Saline county. |
| May 1993 | Tornado (F0) | Hoag | - | A small tornado briefly touched down. |
| August 2015 | Hail | Hoag | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Hoag | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Hoag | - | 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 Hoag | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q17560873 | 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 835325. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.