Jackson, Nebraska
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1993. It stands in St. Johns precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68743. The Survey maps it on the Jackson quadrangle. 207 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,115 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresJackson fell from 223 to 207 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 | 223 | |
| 2020 | 207 | -16 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 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.
- 1955 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Jackson quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Sioux City South quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1993 USGS Jackson quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
11 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Jackson between 2008 and 2020, burning about 86 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 | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 July 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 5 May 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | COUNTRY ACRES |
| 7 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 9.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 4 April 2008 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 10 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 23 April 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 13 April 2010 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 31 March 2020 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
26 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jackson in 26 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 12 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. The reports record 3 injuries. 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 2001 | Tornado (F2) | Jackson | 3 hurt, $3,000,000 | A tornado completely destroyed at least ten houses and heavily damaged several others. The tornado heavily damaged the town school, including taking most of the roof off the school. The only church in town and a telephone company building were also heavily damaged. Power lines, poles, and trees were blown down, and electricity and water service were knocked out. Three empty box cars on the southeast side of Jackson were toppled. Three injuries included a woman with a broken leg and cuts rescued from the rubble of a house, and two children with minor injuries. |
| July 1996 | Flash Flood | Jackson | $1,000,000 | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jackson | $500,000 | Thunderstorm winds caused widespread damage to trees and structures. The worst structural damage was on a farm just south of Jackson where two barns and a windmill were totally destroyed, shingles on the roof of the house were blown off, an air conditioner was destroyed, five horses were injured, and electricity was cut off. In Jackson, shingles were blown off the roofs of buildings, siding was damaged from wind blown debris, and a few homes suffered damage when large branches fell. Major tree damage in Jackson included a few large trees blown over. Power lines and poles were blown down or damaged by falling trees, resulting in power outages. |
| July 2002 | Hail | Jackson | $100,000 | Large hail, driven by severe winds, damaged siding on homes, and also dented vehicles. |
| June 2003 | Hail | Jackson | $50,000 | Large hail damaged vehicles and cracked windows. |
| July 1996 | Tornado (F0) | Jackson | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jackson | $20,000 | Thunderstorm winds caused widespread tree damage, including several trees blown down. There was also damage to power lines, and at least two buildings received minor damage from wind blown debris. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jackson | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage including large limbs blown down. A house was damaged by tree debris. |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jackson | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jackson | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage. A large tree on the west side of the town of Jackson was blown down across a road, and trees up to 5 inches in diameter were broken off in the town. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jackson | - | Thunderstorm winds downed a tree roughly 30 feet tall and 12 inches in diameter, which blocked the westbound lane of U.S. Highway 20 in Jackson. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jackson | - | Thunderstorm winds downed several tree limbs up to 3 inches in diameter. |
| March 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jackson | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including at least one tree blown down. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Jackson | - | Large hail was accompanied by wind gusts up to 45 mph. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jackson | - | Thunderstorm winds caused widespread tree damage, including many trees blown down. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jackson | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several branches down. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jackson | - | Thunderstorm winds caused an unknown amount of tree damage. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Jackson | - | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Hail | Jackson | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Jackson | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Jackson | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Jackson | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Jackson | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Jackson | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Jackson | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jackson | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Willis | 3.9 miles | 9 | |
| Hubbard | 4.5 miles | 11 | |
| Goodwin | 4.8 miles | 9 | |
| Millis Beach | 6.2 miles | 13 | |
| North Shore | 6.5 miles | 13 | |
| Freeway Homes | 6.9 miles | 13 | |
| Dakota City | 8.1 miles | 13 | |
| South Sioux City | 8.2 miles | 13 |
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 Jackson | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3287811 | 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 830326. 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.





