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.
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
Cornelius O'Connor Houselisted 1977
Population over time
2 figuresHomer 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 549 | |
| 2020 | 532 | -17 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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 Sioux City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Homer quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1977 USGS Homer quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Sioux City South quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
18 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 1992 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Winnebago Agency | not named |
| 9 August 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | Winnebago Agency | #27 |
| 8 May 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 2 May 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 80 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 9 April 2008 | Debris and open burning | 60 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 8 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 6 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 26 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
25 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Homer | $20,000 | Thunderstorm winds severely damaged grain elevators on a farm, and caused tree damage. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Homer | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several trees down. One tree fell on and damaged a house. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Homer | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew down some small trees. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Homer | - | Thunderstorm winds snapped several large trees and caused minor roof damage to a couple of houses. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Homer | - | A brief gustnado developed along the storm outflow, but no damage was noted. |
| March 2019 | Flood | Homer | - | 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 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Homer | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including at least one tree blown down. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Homer | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Homer | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including branches up to 6 inches in diameter blown down. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Homer | - | Large hail was mostly quarter size and smaller, but a few stones up to golf ball size fell. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Homer | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines. The amount of damage was not known. |
| August 2007 | Flash Flood | Homer | - | Heavy rain produced flooding of roads in and near the town of Homer. Acces to some businesses was blocked. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Homer | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including three inch diameter limbs blown down. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Homer | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage with 3 inch diameter limbs broken off. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Homer | - | no account filed |
| April 2025 | Hail | Homer | - | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Hail | Homer | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Homer | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Homer | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Homer | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Homer | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Homer | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Homer | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Homer | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Homer | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hubbard | 6.9 miles | 11 | |
| Dakota City | 7.5 miles | 13 | |
| Millis Beach | 8.1 miles | 13 | |
| North Shore | 8.6 miles | 13 | |
| Nacora | 9.1 miles | 10 | |
| Freeway Homes | 9.1 miles | 13 | |
| Jackson | 9.6 miles | 11 | |
| South Sioux City | 11.2 miles | 13 |
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 Homer | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2340006 | 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 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.





