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Holbrook, Nebraska

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Holbrook precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68948. It stands on Timmons Creek. The Survey maps it on the Holbrook quadrangle. 201 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,211 feet above sea level.

Holbrook within Furnas County

Population over time

2 figures

Holbrook fell from 207 to 201 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
2010207
2020201-6 (-3%)

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

8 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Holbrook between 2011 and 2020, burning about 32 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning3
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
11 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
26 June 2012Natural8.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
16 May 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
9 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
9 April 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
11 April 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
30 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
4 October 2011Equipment and vehicle use20 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Furnas County

Storms near this place

46 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Holbrook in 46 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 29 hail, 16 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2022Thunderstorm WindHolbrook$250,000Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH in Holbrook, where a few large tree limbs were downed. A few miles east of Holbrook, gusts likely closer to 80 MPH caused damage at a farmstead. An outbuilding and grain bin were destroyed, and the roof of a two-car garage was damaged. Hail up to the size of half dollars also occurred.
July 2022HailHolbrook$250,000Hail up to the size of half dollars was accompanied by wind gusts in the area ranging between 60-80 MPH. Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH in Holbrook, where a few large tree limbs were downed. A few miles east of Holbrook, gusts likely closer to 80 MPH caused damage at a farmstead. An outbuilding and grain bin were destroyed, and the roof of a two-car garage was damaged.
June 2022HailHolbrook$250,000no account filed
September 2019HailHolbrook$150,000Hail stones of 2 to 2.5 inches in diameter was reported along this path.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindHolbrook$150,000no account filed
July 2018HailHolbrook$100,000Quarter to ping pong ball size hail was reported. Hail was accompanied by 60-65 MPH wind gusts.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindHolbrook$100,000A wind gust of 65 MPH was measured in Holbrook and gusts estimated near 60 MPH were reported west of town. Tree limbs of 2-3 inches in diameter were downed in town. Wind was accompanied by quarter to golf ball size hail.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindHolbrook$100,000no account filed
March 2012HailHolbrook$50,000At one point, the town was covered in one inch of mostly pea size hail, with the largest hail stones one inch in diameter. Highway 6 was slick due to the copious amounts of hail that fell.
October 2007HailHolbrook$50,000no account filed
September 2015HailHolbrook$35,000no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindHolbrook$25,000no account filed
June 2017HailHolbrook$15,000no account filed
July 2000HailHolbrook$10,000no account filed
May 2008HailHolbrook$5,000Wind gusts near 40 to 50 MPH were also reported.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindHolbrook$1,000A wind gust of 71 MPH was measured by a handheld anemometer. Small tree limbs were downed.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindHolbrook-A wind gust of 58 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located six miles south-southeast of Holbrook.
April 2022HailHolbrook-Report from Facebook stated the largest stone was measured at 2.7 inches in diameter.
April 2022HailHolbrook-Off and on quarter size hail was reported to have fallen for at least 30 minutes.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindHolbrook-A wind gust of 63 MPH was measured by a trained spotter located four miles west of Holbrook.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindHolbrook-Officer reported wind gusts of 60 to 70 MPH while driving between Cambridge and Arapahoe.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindHolbrook-Wind gusts estimated to be near 80 MPH resulted in damage in the Holbrook area. South of town, the roof was partially torn off of a metal outbuilding. In town, tree limbs upwards of 6 inches in diameter were downed. Northeast of town, a grain bin and outbuilding were destroyed, a home suffered shingle damage and irrigation pipe was blown up to one-half mile away.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindHolbrook-Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindHolbrook-Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindHolbrook-Wind gusts up to 60 mph were reported.
June 2014Heavy RainHolbrook-Water was on Highway 6/34 in Holbrook.
July 2024HailHolbrook-no account filed
June 2023HailHolbrook-no account filed
October 2023HailHolbrook-no account filed
April 2022HailHolbrook-no account filed
March 2021HailHolbrook-no account filed
July 2020Thunderstorm WindHolbrook-no account filed
May 2019HailHolbrook-no account filed
August 2017HailHolbrook-no account filed
July 2017HailHolbrook-no account filed
July 2017Thunderstorm WindHolbrook-no account filed
May 2015HailHolbrook-no account filed
May 2015HailHolbrook-no account filed
May 2010HailHolbrook-no account filed
May 2007HailHolbrook-no account filed
May 2006HailHolbrook-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindHolbrook-no account filed
June 2005HailHolbrook-no account filed
May 2003HailHolbrook-no account filed
June 1995HailHolbrook-no account filed
July 1995HailHolbrook-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Furnas 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
Arapahoe5.8 miles14
Cambridge8.4 miles9
Hendley12.2 miles14
Edison12.5 miles14
Deerfield Corner13.5 miles14
Wilsonville14.3 miles8
Beaver City15.0 miles13
Hollinger18.9 miles13

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 HolbrookAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2056385The 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 830049. 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.