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Juniata, Nebraska

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Juniata Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68955. The Survey maps it on the Juniata quadrangle. 748 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,962 feet above sea level.

Juniata within Adams County

Population over time

2 figures

Juniata fell from 755 to 748 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
2010755
2020748-7 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Juniata township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From Past and Present of Adams County, Nebraska, published 1916 - Juniata Township

I.Ibeuty District Tragedy

man of the district, was killed. Irvin Faribee, another youngman of the district, was paying court to Young's sister. Belle Young, and bad feeling was aroused between the two young men at a charivari held in the neighborhood and Young forbade Faribee to keep company with his sister. All the parties concerned were high spirited Kentuckians and young Faribee paid no heed to Young's warning.

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In the county-history sources

5,233 words on this township

Past and Present of Adams County, Nebraska, published 1916 names this settlement in its chapter on Juniata Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Juniata, with a population according to the census of 1910 of 471, is located around the center of section 12, township 7, range 11. 'It lies four miles west of the western extremity of Hastings and the Burlington station at Juniata is seven miles west of the Burlington station in Hastings.

Passage source: Past and Present of Adams County, Nebraska, published 1916.

The first settlers around Juniata were a colony from IMichigan, at the head of whom Mere Adna H. Bowen, now residing in Idaho, and Samuel L. Brass. The exact location was determined by two representatives of the Burlington Railroad, D. X. Smith and another man who some of the early settlers recall by the name of Wylsie. The foiu- quarters of section 12 were preempted by Titus Babcock, R. D. Babcock, Isaac Stark and John Stark. The Babcocks were brothers and Isaac Stark was the father of John Stark. These four took their preemiJtions in Febi-uary, 1871.

Passage source: Past and Present of Adams County, Nebraska, published 1916.

Under each of the four inside corners of the quarters of section 12 the preempt ors erected houses which were ready for occupancy about the middle of ]March, 1871, and these formed the nucleus aroimd which Juniata Avas built. The houses were built of lumber hauled from Grand Island, and each was 14 by 16 feet and lV> stories high. These first settlers came to Grand Island over the Union Pacific and then came overland to Juniata bringing their supplies with them. The greatest drawback upon reaching the place was the lack of water, and it was about a month after their arrival before the railroad bored a well for their use at about the present location of tlie G. A. R. Hall. Until the well Mas bored, drinking water Mas hauled from Martin's Ranch on the Platte, a distance of about tMcnty-five .351

Passage source: Past and Present of Adams County, Nebraska, published 1916.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Juniata Township - it names this place 30 more 30 times.

Fires near this place

26 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Juniata between 2005 and 2020, burning about 143 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 use3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
23 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
13 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
4 July 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
22 July 2012Debris and open burning2.5 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
8 June 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
30 June 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
27 June 2010Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
3 May 2013Debris and open burning6.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Storms near this place

37 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Juniata in 37 storm reports between 1994 and 2019: 19 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 6 heavy rain, 3 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
June 2017HailJuniata$2,500,000Hail along and near this path ranged in size from quarters to baseballs. The entire city of Hastings experienced hail ranging in size from quarters to hen eggs, while the largest hail fell to the west-southwest of Hastings to a few miles south of Juniata. The NWS Hastings office located 4 miles north of downtown reported half dollar size hail.
May 2012HailJuniata$1,800,000no account filed
August 2019Thunderstorm WindJuniata$1,000,000A 76 MPH wind gust was measured by the Hastings Airport ASOS at 2:59 AM CDT. Wind gusts were estimated to be near 70 to 75 MPH along this path. A light helicopter was blown over at the Hastings Airport. Quarter to half dollar size hail was also reported near the airport, which combined with intense winds to shred trees, crops and gardens, and damage house siding, in and near the west side of Hastings.
October 2013Heavy RainJuniata$400,000A rainfall total of 6.35 inches occurred.
May 2013HailJuniata$125,000no account filed
October 2014HailJuniata$100,000Copious amounts of hail were covering Highway 6, with some hail up to the size of quarters.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindJuniata$62,000no account filed
June 2009HailJuniata$50,000no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindJuniata$50,000no account filed
August 1998HailJuniata$50,000no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindJuniata$15,000no account filed
July 1997HailJuniata$15,000no account filed
June 2014HailJuniata$3,000no account filed
June 2016Tornado (EF0)Juniata$2,000This landspout tornado briefly touched down roughly 2.5 miles southwest of Juniata. Damage was confined to a roof being partially torn off of a metal outbuilding. Maximum wind speed was estimated to be between 75 and 80 MPH.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindJuniata-Widespread wind gusts of 60 to 65 MPH were reported in and around Hastings, with a few higher measured gusts. A wind gust of 68 MPH was measured at 1:09 AM CDT by a mesonet station located 3 miles east-southeast of Juniata, and a gust of 67 MPH was measured at 1:18 AM CDT by a mesonet station located 4 miles east-southeast of Hastings. There were numerous reports of tree limbs, at least some larger than 6 inches in diameter, downed across the area. Some trees were uprooted, including southwest of Hastings at Southern Hills Golf Course. A power line was knocked down across 12th Street in Hastings.
October 2017Thunderstorm WindJuniata-Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH and were accompanied by nickel size hail.
October 2017HailJuniata-Nickel size hail was reported along with estimated wind gusts near 60 MPH.
August 2016Heavy RainJuniata-Storm-total rainfall of 3.72 inches...all of which fell between 9:30 p.m. and 5 a.m. CDT.
June 2014Heavy RainJuniata-A 24 hour rain total of 3.60 inches fell one mile east northeast of Juniata. The rain occurred during the late evening into the overnight hours.
April 2014Heavy RainJuniata-A 24 hour rainfall total of 3.25 inches occurred about a mile east of Juniata. This report was from an NERAIN observer.
October 2013Heavy RainJuniata-A rainfall total of 5.40 inches occurred.
May 2008Heavy RainJuniata-An estimated 1.60 inches of rain had fallen during the night.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindJuniata-Thunderstorm winds gusted up to 90 mph across the northern part of Adams County causing extensive power line damage. Tree and roof damage also occurred. A van was crushed by a falling tree. Three air conditioning units were blown off of a business causing a gas leak. A utility shed was blown into the side of a church, damaging the entrance and an air conditioning unit. Numerous grain bins were destroyed.
June 1994Tornado (F1)Juniata-A tornado north of Hastings caused extensive damage to one house and one business. Another tornado just north of Juniata damaged two farm houses, destroyed several outbuildings, and overturned vehicles. Crop damage in Adams County was estimated at $10 million. Streets and underpasses were flooded in Hastings.
May 2019HailJuniata-no account filed
May 2018Thunderstorm WindJuniata-no account filed
May 2017Thunderstorm WindJuniata-no account filed
July 2014HailJuniata-no account filed
June 2014HailJuniata-no account filed
June 2014HailJuniata-no account filed
June 2014HailJuniata-no account filed
May 2014HailJuniata-no account filed
May 2013HailJuniata-no account filed
September 2007HailJuniata-no account filed
May 2006HailJuniata-no account filed
May 1999Tornado (F0)Juniata-no account filed
March 1997HailJuniata-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Adams 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
Ingleside3.4 miles14
Countryside Parks6.2 miles14
Hastings6.2 miles14
Assumption6.5 miles13
Hayland6.7 miles14
Good Samaritan Village7.4 miles13
Prosser7.7 miles14
Kingswood Plaza7.7 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 JuniataAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2653589The 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 830427. 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.