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Janise, Nebraska

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Kiowa precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69352. The Survey maps it on the Robb Draw quadrangle.

Janise within Scotts Bluff County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

4 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Janise between 2003 and 2018, burning about 51 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 burning3
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
7 July 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
30 June 2010Debris and open burning30 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
25 April 2007Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
12 October 2003Debris and open burning15 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scotts Bluff County

Storms near this place

12 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Janise in 12 storm reports between 2019 and 2025: 8 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 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
July 2025HailJanise-Storm chaser found 2 inch hailstone after the storm.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindJanise-Also received dime size hail at time of wind gust.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindJanise-Outbuilding blown apart by thunderstorm winds. Accompanied by pea sized hail. Report received via social media.
June 2025HailJanise-Several house windows blown out by hailstones.
June 2025HailJanise-Measured 2 inch hail at the intersection of County Road X and County Road 6.
June 2025HailJanise-Trained Spotter reported the largest hailstones close to tennis ball sized.
July 2023HailJanise-Half-dollar sized hail was reported by the public 9 miles of SE of Lyman via mPING.
June 2023Tornado (EFU)Janise-A brief tornado touchdown occurred over open country west of Gering with no damage reported. Confirmed by official NWS Damage Survey.
June 2023HailJanise-Softball sized hail was reported by a trained weather spotter on Robideux Rd SE of Stegall, or approximately 8 miles SE of Lyman.
July 2019Flash FloodJanise-Report was relayed that water was flowing over the roadway at the intersection of South Morrill Road and Highway 92.
June 2019HailJanise-no account filed
June 2019HailJanise-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Scotts Bluff 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
Hartman1.9 miles14
Sears2.8 miles13
Stegall3.2 miles14
Caldwell (historical)3.8 miles14
Lyman4.8 miles13
Joyce5.5 miles14
South Morrill6.6 miles14
Morrill8.6 miles14

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.

Wikidata item Q122596257The 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 835338. 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.