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Homer, Nebraska

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Omadi precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68030. It stands on Fiddlers Creek. The Survey maps it on the Homer quadrangle. 532 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,109 feet above sea level.

Homer within Dakota County

On record in Homer

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Homer fell from 549 to 532 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
2010549
2020532-17 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

18 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Homer between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,124 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 burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1
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
3 September 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreWinnebago Agencynot named
9 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use20 acresWinnebago Agency#27
8 May 2014Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
2 May 2009Equipment and vehicle use80 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
9 April 2008Debris and open burning60 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
8 April 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
26 April 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dakota County

Storms near this place

25 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Homer in 25 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 flood. 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 2002Thunderstorm WindHomer$20,000Thunderstorm winds severely damaged grain elevators on a farm, and caused tree damage.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindHomer$10,000Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several trees down. One tree fell on and damaged a house.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindHomer$5,000Thunderstorm winds blew down some small trees.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindHomer-Thunderstorm winds snapped several large trees and caused minor roof damage to a couple of houses.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindHomer-A brief gustnado developed along the storm outflow, but no damage was noted.
March 2019FloodHomer-Snow melt and heavy rainfall (measured 1.70 inches 3 miles southwest of Hubbard and 1.63 inches at Emerson) resulted in significant flooding of agricultural lands, as Omaha Creek at Homer (gage site HMRN1) crested at 3.46 feet above flood stage on March 13.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindHomer-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including at least one tree blown down.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindHomer-Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindHomer-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including branches up to 6 inches in diameter blown down.
June 2011HailHomer-Large hail was mostly quarter size and smaller, but a few stones up to golf ball size fell.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindHomer-Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines. The amount of damage was not known.
August 2007Flash FloodHomer-Heavy rain produced flooding of roads in and near the town of Homer. Acces to some businesses was blocked.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindHomer-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including three inch diameter limbs blown down.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindHomer-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage with 3 inch diameter limbs broken off.
April 2025HailHomer-no account filed
April 2025HailHomer-no account filed
March 2007HailHomer-no account filed
August 2007HailHomer-no account filed
June 2006HailHomer-no account filed
May 2004HailHomer-no account filed
April 2001HailHomer-no account filed
April 2001HailHomer-no account filed
April 2001HailHomer-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindHomer-no account filed
June 1996HailHomer-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dakota 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
Hubbard6.9 miles11
Dakota City7.5 miles13
Millis Beach8.1 miles13
North Shore8.6 miles13
Nacora9.1 miles10
Freeway Homes9.1 miles13
Jackson9.6 miles11
South Sioux City11.2 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 HomerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2340006The 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 830094. 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.