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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.

Ithaca within Saunders County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Ithaca 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.

YearPeople Change
2010148
2020160+12 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

38 since 2006

Regional 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 burning17
Equipment and vehicle use13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1

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 2007Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use10 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
12 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
9 July 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
8 July 2007Smokingunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
4 July 2006Fireworks1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
7 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saunders County

Storms near this place

19 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2014FloodIthaca$5,000Repeated 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 2001Tornado (F0)Ithaca$5,000Brief 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 1993Thunderstorm WindIthaca$5,000Thunderstorm winds damaged two farm buildings and knocked down tree limbs.
May 2014Flash FloodIthaca$2,000Several roads around Ithica were briefly closed due to flash flooding.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindIthaca-Mesonet measured a peak wind gust of 99 mph.
December 2021Tornado (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 2021Thunderstorm WindIthaca-Personal weather station recorded a maximum wind gust of 50 kts.
December 2015FloodIthaca-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 2014Flash FloodIthaca-Flash flooding briefly closed the intersection of County Rd 14 and Highway 66.
June 2011HailIthaca-Hail up to 2 inches fell in the Ithaca area with some reports of sky lights broken because of the hail.
September 2010HailIthaca-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 2007HailIthaca-Very large hail was reported around the Ithaca area. A few stones were as large as 3 inches in diameter.
May 2007FloodIthaca-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 2002Thunderstorm WindIthaca-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 2001HailIthaca-Car window reported fractured by the hail.
June 2014HailIthaca-no account filed
June 2014HailIthaca-no account filed
May 2012HailIthaca-no account filed
April 2002HailIthaca-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Saunders 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
Swedeburg4.9 miles12
Mead5.3 miles17
Wahoo5.4 miles12
Memphis7.4 miles14
Ceresco9.2 miles11
Yutan9.4 miles17
Wann9.8 miles15
Colon9.9 miles11

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 IthacaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2806459The 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.