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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.

Hooper within Dodge County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Hooper 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.

YearPeople Change
2010830
2020857+27 (+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

28 since 2004

Regional 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 burning14
Equipment and vehicle use7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
27 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
11 September 2009Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
9 August 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
8 June 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
15 June 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
7 April 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
30 April 2018Recreation and ceremony35 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dodge County

Storms near this place

32 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1996HailHooper$10,000,000no account filed
August 1999LightningHooper$25,000Lightning 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 2025Thunderstorm WindHooper-Estimated 50 to 60 mph wind gusts from Hooper Police.
May 2025HailHooper-Public report of hail measured up to 1.75 in diameter. Report received via mPING.
May 2025HailHooper-Public report of hail estimated up to 1.75 in diameter.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindHooper-Straight line winds blew microwave dishes off of a radio tower just west o the town of Hooper.
March 2019FloodHooper-Water was reported on roadways at County Road G and County Road 18 near Hooper.
May 2019HailHooper-The public reported damage to a wheat field on social media.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindHooper-Numerous trees and street signs were blown down in Hooper by damaging thunderstorm winds.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindHooper-An estimated 75 mph gust was reported at Hooper.
June 2014HailHooper-The windows of the home were broken out by the wind driven hail at this location.
August 2011HailHooper-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 2008FloodHooper-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 2007Thunderstorm WindHooper-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph tore the roof off of a fitness center and caused tree damage near Hooper.
April 2002Thunderstorm WindHooper-A thunderstorm wind gust estimated at 60 mph was reported by a ham radio operator.
June 1997HailHooper-Hail damaged crops on a farm.
June 2014HailHooper-no account filed
May 2012HailHooper-no account filed
March 2006HailHooper-no account filed
May 2005HailHooper-no account filed
May 2005HailHooper-no account filed
August 2005HailHooper-no account filed
May 2003HailHooper-no account filed
September 2002HailHooper-no account filed
June 1998HailHooper-no account filed
April 1998HailHooper-no account filed
June 1998HailHooper-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindHooper-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindHooper-no account filed
June 1996Funnel CloudHooper-no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindHooper-no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindHooper-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dodge 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
Winslow2.3 miles8
Nickerson6.7 miles8
Scribner7.3 miles8
Uehling8.8 miles8
Ames11.7 miles12
Crowell11.7 miles8
Fremont12.5 miles16
Webster12.9 miles8

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 HooperAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q966387The 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.