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Hoskins, Nebraska

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Hoskins precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68740. The Survey maps it on the Hoskins quadrangle. 263 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,673 feet above sea level.

Hoskins within Wayne County

Population over time

2 figures

Hoskins fell from 285 to 263 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
2010285
2020263-22 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

13 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Hoskins between 2003 and 2019, burning about 250 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 burning7
Fireworks3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
4 July 2017Fireworks1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
4 July 2007Fireworksunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
3 July 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
1 July 2007Fireworksunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
20 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
11 April 2009Debris and open burning30 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
22 March 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
21 March 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this place

10 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hoskins in 10 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 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
June 2010FloodHoskins$30,000Heavy rain from June 8th through the morning of the 11th caused flooding of small streams and creeks with widespread crop damage noted. Some county roads were damaged by flood waters and a bridge northwest of Carroll was washed out.
June 2024Flash FloodHoskins-Water was reported as partially covering county roads near Hoskins to the northeast by emergency management.
June 2017Tornado (EF0)Hoskins-Tornado started northeast of Hoskins where a barn lost part of it's roof. The tornado proceeded southeast and damaged another barn and grain bin before crossing into Stanton County.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindHoskins-Grain bins 4 miles north of Hoskins were destroyed.
September 2008HailHoskins-Hail up to nickel size knocked leaves off of some trees in the area.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindHoskins-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated to have reached 60 mph near Hoskins.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindHoskins-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph caused power outages in town.
July 1999Flash FloodHoskins-Three and a half to 4 inches of rain fell near Hoskins in 45 minutes which produced flash flooding of roads.
June 2018HailHoskins-no account filed
April 2004HailHoskins-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wayne 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
Winside8.2 miles9
Carroll12.9 miles9
Sholes15.2 miles9
Altona16.6 miles9
Wayne17.3 miles9

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 HoskinsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2151109The 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 830161. 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.