Ithaca, Nebraska
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Wahoo Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68033. The Survey maps it on the Wahoo East quadrangle. 160 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,175 feet above sea level.
On record in Ithaca
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
Ithaca Grain Elevator, Oldlisted 2001
Population over time
2 figuresIthaca grew from 148 to 160 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 | 148 | |
| 2020 | 160 | +12 (+8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 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.
- 1899 USGS Wahoo quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Wahoo East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
38 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Ithaca between 2006 and 2020, burning about 117 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 | 17 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 13 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 19 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 18 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 12 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 9 July 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 8 July 2007 | Smoking | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 4 July 2006 | Fireworks | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 June 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
19 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ithaca in 19 storm reports between 1993 and 2021: 8 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 2 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2014 | Flood | Ithaca | $5,000 | Repeated thunderstorms on the 27th and 28th of August caused heavy rainfall and the Wahoo Creek to go into flood. The creek rose above flood stage on the morning of the 28th, the river created during the early morning on the 29th and fell below flood stage later that evening. The flooding was generally minor and confined to low-lying areas along the river. |
| April 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Ithaca | $5,000 | Brief touchdown of a tornado reported by amateur radio operator, also caught on film by 2 different tv meteorologists. The tornado struck a farm, picked up a camper and blew it around and damaged a few shingles and broke a few windows on a farm house according to the Mead Fire Chief. |
| May 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ithaca | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds damaged two farm buildings and knocked down tree limbs. |
| May 2014 | Flash Flood | Ithaca | $2,000 | Several roads around Ithica were briefly closed due to flash flooding. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ithaca | - | Mesonet measured a peak wind gust of 99 mph. |
| December 2021 | Tornado (EF1) | Ithaca | - | A short track EF-1 tornado began just west of CR 13 and traveled over a farmstead. This tornado caused substantial damage to several outbuildings and a grain bin. A cattle feeder that was secured to the ground via 3-foot-deep concrete posts was lifted and thrown 250 feet. The tornado was short lived with only tree damage observed at the end of the track. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ithaca | - | Personal weather station recorded a maximum wind gust of 50 kts. |
| December 2015 | Flood | Ithaca | - | Heavy rainfall in mid December led to minor flooding along the Wahoo Creek at both Ithaca downstream to Ashland. The river crested at 19.37 feet or .37 feet above flood stage at Ithaca, and at 19.11 feet or .11 feet above flood stage at Ashland. Flooding was minor and confined to agricultural land right along the river. |
| May 2014 | Flash Flood | Ithaca | - | Flash flooding briefly closed the intersection of County Rd 14 and Highway 66. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Ithaca | - | Hail up to 2 inches fell in the Ithaca area with some reports of sky lights broken because of the hail. |
| September 2010 | Hail | Ithaca | - | Hail up to baseball-size caused significant house and vehicle damage in the Ithaca area. The hail was accompanied by winds that gusted to at least 50 mph. By some accounts the hail lasted up to 45 minutes. Almost every house in town had siding damage and/or windows broken out, mainly on the north side of the house. Vehicles also sustained damage as did trees and other structures. Some crops east of town were shredded to the ground. |
| March 2007 | Hail | Ithaca | - | Very large hail was reported around the Ithaca area. A few stones were as large as 3 inches in diameter. |
| May 2007 | Flood | Ithaca | - | Rainfall of 3 to 5 inches fell over the lower sections of the Wahoo Creek basin from Friday May 4th through Sunday May 6th. The heavy rain caused Wahoo Creek to flood, mainly from just downstream of Wahoo to where it merges with Salt Creek near Ashland. At Ithaca the creek surpassed it's 19 foot flood stage around 9 am CDT on May 6th, reached a 20.7 foot crest at 5 pm and fell below flood stage around 1015 pm that day. The water flooded several county roads and Highway 66 near Ashland. A baseball field was also flooded. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ithaca | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts damaged large tree branches and knocked power out in Ithaca. From the same storm system that did the tree damage around Wahoo. |
| April 2001 | Hail | Ithaca | - | Car window reported fractured by the hail. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Ithaca | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Ithaca | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Ithaca | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Ithaca | - | 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 Ithaca | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2806459 | 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 830312. 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.





