Krider, Nebraska

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Paddock Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68415. It stands on Sicily Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wymore quadrangle.

Krider within Gage County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

1955 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Wymore quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Beatrice quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

12 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Krider between 2001 and 2011, burning about 45 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	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	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
29 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
21 August 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
16 May 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
4 March 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
21 March 2001	Smoking	1.5 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
20 March 2011	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
18 March 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
14 March 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gage County

Storms near this place

7 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Krider in 7 storm reports between 2009 and 2024: 3 tornado, 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2024	Tornado (EF0)	Krider	-	Storm spotters provided video matching up with a short damage path. The tornado damaged the hoop building that stores road supplies along Highway 77, proceeded northeast where it broke some tree branches and quickly dissipated. The peak estimated wind speeds from this tornado were at 80 miles per hour. The tornado had a maximum width of 30 yards and an average width estimated at 20 yards.
April 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Krider	-	Fire department reported a car lifted and spun around near US 77 and Nebraska Highway 8. Signs and power lines had been blown down. Also reported part of a roof of a home blown off near Highway 8 and S 67th Road.
June 2022	Tornado (EF1)	Krider	-	The tornado started approximately 7 miles south-southwest of Wymore, NE, doing damage to trees just west of S 23 Rd between E Walnut Rd and Willow Rd. The tornado continued south-southeastward, damaging the roof of a residence and barn, as well as power poles along Willow Rd. The track then turned more southeast, crossing State Line Rd into Marshall County, KS, between 8th Rd and S 36 Rd where damage to farm outbuildings was noted. The tornado continued southeast and caused damage to power poles along US Highway 77 just south of Bison Rd before lifting shortly thereafter.
May 2018	Tornado (EF0)	Krider	-	A spotter reported a tornado briefly touched down and lifted.
September 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Krider	-	A trained spotter estimated winds to near 60 mph.
September 2010	Hail	Krider	-	no account filed
April 2009	Hail	Krider	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gage 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Odell	3.4 miles	10
Wymore	5.7 miles	10
Blue Springs	6.6 miles	10
Badger	8.1 miles	10
Lanham	8.2 miles	10
Barneston	9.1 miles	10
Holmesville	10.1 miles	10
Ellis	12.3 miles	10

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 Krider	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17560852	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 835354. 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.