Jansen, Nebraska
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Cub Creek precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68377. The Survey maps it on the Jansen quadrangle. 101 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,460 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresJansen fell from 271 to 101 between 1900 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1900 | 271 | |
| 2010 | 118 | |
| 2020 | 101 | -17 (-14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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 Lincoln quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Jansen quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Fairbury quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
17 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Jansen between 2010 and 2020, burning about 133 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 | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 July 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 25 July 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 15 July 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 May 2014 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 14 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 14 May 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 10 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 28 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
21 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jansen in 21 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 13 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jansen | - | Public reported a large tree was down. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jansen | - | Emergency manger reported a 2-3 foot diameter trees down. One fell on a house and damaged roof enough for rain to enter the home. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Jansen | - | Trained spotter reported 1 inch hail. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jansen | - | A large grain bin was blown onto a county road. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jansen | - | The emergency manger reported that a 2 year old 60 by 90 foot barn was destroyed at a rural residence. |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jansen | - | Power lines were downed along Highway 136 from Jansen to Harbine by thunderstorm gusts estimated at over 60 mph. The strong winds were from the super-cell thunderstorm that produced a tornado a few miles to the west but had lifted by the time it reached the Jansen area. In Harbine large tree was uprooted and a city building was lifted in the air over 2 houses and dropped in the backyard of one of them. |
| June 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Jansen | - | A brief tornado touchdown caused mainly just tree damage 2 miles north of Jansen. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jansen | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at around 60 mph downed some large tree limbs in Jansen. |
| April 2001 | Hail | Jansen | - | Hail covered the ground. |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jansen | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down power lines in Jansen. In Fairbury, the wind blew down large tree limbs and caused some structural damage to buildings. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Jansen | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Jansen | - | no account filed |
| March 2012 | Hail | Jansen | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Jansen | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Jansen | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Jansen | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Jansen | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Jansen | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Jansen | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Jansen | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Jansen | - | 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 Jansen | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3289046 | 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 830344. 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.




