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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.

Jackson within Dakota County

Population over time

2 figures

Jackson 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.

YearPeople Change
2010223
2020207-16 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

11 since 2008

Regional 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 burning5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
1 July 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
5 May 2014Equipment and vehicle use20 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
7 April 2020Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionCOUNTRY ACRES
7 April 2018Debris and open burning9.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
4 April 2008Power generation/transmission/distribution10 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
23 April 2009Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
13 April 2010Debris and open burning15 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
31 March 2020Debris and open burning4.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dakota County

Storms near this place

26 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2001Tornado (F2)Jackson3 hurt, $3,000,000A 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 1996Flash FloodJackson$1,000,000no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindJackson$500,000Thunderstorm 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 2002HailJackson$100,000Large hail, driven by severe winds, damaged siding on homes, and also dented vehicles.
June 2003HailJackson$50,000Large hail damaged vehicles and cracked windows.
July 1996Tornado (F0)Jackson$50,000no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindJackson$20,000Thunderstorm 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 2010Thunderstorm WindJackson$10,000Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage including large limbs blown down. A house was damaged by tree debris.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindJackson$10,000Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindJackson$5,000Thunderstorm 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 2023Thunderstorm WindJackson-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 2023Thunderstorm WindJackson-Thunderstorm winds downed several tree limbs up to 3 inches in diameter.
March 2009Thunderstorm WindJackson-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including at least one tree blown down.
June 2007HailJackson-Large hail was accompanied by wind gusts up to 45 mph.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindJackson-Thunderstorm winds caused widespread tree damage, including many trees blown down.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindJackson-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several branches down.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindJackson-Thunderstorm winds caused an unknown amount of tree damage.
June 2014HailJackson-no account filed
August 2008HailJackson-no account filed
April 2005HailJackson-no account filed
May 2004HailJackson-no account filed
July 2002HailJackson-no account filed
June 2000HailJackson-no account filed
June 1999HailJackson-no account filed
July 1999HailJackson-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindJackson-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dakota 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
Willis3.9 miles9
Hubbard4.5 miles11
Goodwin4.8 miles9
Millis Beach6.2 miles13
North Shore6.5 miles13
Freeway Homes6.9 miles13
Dakota City8.1 miles13
South Sioux City8.2 miles13

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 JacksonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3287811The 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.