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Horn, Nebraska

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Precinct 11. It lies in ZIP code area 69339. The Survey maps it on the Horn quadrangle. It stands 3,688 feet above sea level.

Horn within Dawes County

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

21 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Horn between 2000 and 2020, burning about 94 acres in total. 5 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
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Natural5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
5 September 2003Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreNebraska National ForestGRINDER
20 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2007Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
25 August 2008Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
10 August 2000Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresNebraska National ForestROCK BASS
4 July 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
17 July 2002Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreNebraska National ForestBOX CAR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dawes County

Storms near this place

8 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Horn in 8 storm reports between 2014 and 2024: 6 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 2024Thunderstorm WindHorn-A trained weather spotter reported wind gusts up to 60 MPH.
June 2023HailHorn-Quarter sized hail was reported 9 miles WNW of Whitney.
May 2018HailHorn-One inch was observed 25 miles west of Chadron.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindHorn-Estimated wind gusts of 60 to 65 mph were observed 15 miles east of Montrose.
June 2014HailHorn-Quarter size hail was observed 15 miles east of Montrose.
July 2014HailHorn-Quarter size hail was reported north of Crawford.
June 2014HailHorn-Quarter size hail was observed 15 miles east of Montrose.
July 2024HailHorn-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dawes 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
Crawford5.7 miles8
Whitney10.0 miles8
Belmont15.4 miles8
Pine Ridge18.6 miles11
Dakota Junction19.7 miles9
Marsland23.3 miles11
Chadron24.0 miles8
Bordeaux33.4 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 HornAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18153144The 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 835594. 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.