Hooper, Nebraska
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Hooper Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68031. The Survey maps it on the Hooper quadrangle. 857 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,230 feet above sea level.
On record in Hooper
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
Hooper Historic Districtlisted 1980
Population over time
2 figuresHooper grew from 830 to 857 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 | 830 | |
| 2020 | 857 | +27 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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 Fremont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Hooper quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Blair quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
28 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Hooper between 2004 and 2018, burning about 92 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 14 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 11 September 2009 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 9 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 8 June 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 15 June 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 April 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 6 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 30 April 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | 35 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
32 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hooper in 32 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 18 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1996 | Hail | Hooper | $10,000,000 | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Lightning | Hooper | $25,000 | Lightning struck a cottonwood tree which then fell through the Hooper Historical Building, coming down in the middle of the building. The roof was completely destroyed. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hooper | - | Estimated 50 to 60 mph wind gusts from Hooper Police. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Hooper | - | Public report of hail measured up to 1.75 in diameter. Report received via mPING. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Hooper | - | Public report of hail estimated up to 1.75 in diameter. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hooper | - | Straight line winds blew microwave dishes off of a radio tower just west o the town of Hooper. |
| March 2019 | Flood | Hooper | - | Water was reported on roadways at County Road G and County Road 18 near Hooper. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Hooper | - | The public reported damage to a wheat field on social media. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hooper | - | Numerous trees and street signs were blown down in Hooper by damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hooper | - | An estimated 75 mph gust was reported at Hooper. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Hooper | - | The windows of the home were broken out by the wind driven hail at this location. |
| August 2011 | Hail | Hooper | - | Hail up to golf ball-size fell in the Hooper area for about 10 minutes. Corn and soybean fields were stripped about 6 miles north of town. |
| May 2008 | Flood | Hooper | - | Heavy rainfall during the evening of May 29th caused Maple Creek to flood northeast of North Bend to its mouth with the Elkhorn River near Nickerson. Some lowland flooding was also observed along the Elkhorn River in the Nickerson area as well. The more significant flooding along Maple Creek started late in the morning on May 30th and continued for several days afterward as additional rain aggravated the situation. The creek at Nickerson reached multiple crests of around 11 feet from mid afternoon on May 30th through mid afternoon on June 1, flood stage is 10 feet. The creek dropped below flood stage around 8pm CDT on June 1. The flooding closed county roads in the area and also briefly closed Highway 91 west of Nickerson. Farmland near the creek was also flooded. |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hooper | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph tore the roof off of a fitness center and caused tree damage near Hooper. |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hooper | - | A thunderstorm wind gust estimated at 60 mph was reported by a ham radio operator. |
| June 1997 | Hail | Hooper | - | Hail damaged crops on a farm. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Hooper | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Hooper | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Hooper | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Hooper | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Hooper | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Hooper | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Hooper | - | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Hail | Hooper | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Hooper | - | no account filed |
| April 1998 | Hail | Hooper | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Hooper | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hooper | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hooper | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Funnel Cloud | Hooper | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hooper | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hooper | - | 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 Hooper | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q966387 | 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 830111. 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.




