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Loomis, Nebraska

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Precinct 8. It lies in ZIP code area 68958. The Survey maps it on the Loomis quadrangle. 391 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,425 feet above sea level.

Loomis within Phelps County

On record in Loomis

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Loomis grew from 382 to 391 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
2010382
2020391+9 (+2%)

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.

Fires near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Loomis between 2009 and 2014, burning about 13 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 burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
6 February 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
14 January 2014Equipment and vehicle use12 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Phelps County

Storms near this place

47 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Loomis in 47 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 24 hail, 20 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 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
June 2018HailLoomis$1,000,000Satellite imagery reveals a swath of golf ball size to isolated baseball size hail that stretched from extreme southeastern Gosper County to central Phelps County on the afternoon of June 30th. The path was about 2 to 3 miles wide. Within this swath, law enforcement reported baseball size hail 3 miles southeast of Loomis at 3:12 p.m. CST.
October 1998Tornado (F2)Loomis$400,000no account filed
June 2016Thunderstorm WindLoomis$150,000Six power poles and several trees were reported down, along with irrigation pivots, in an area north of Loomis near the intersection of G and 739 Roads.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindLoomis$150,000This wind gust was measured 5 miles north of Loomis.
July 2000HailLoomis$150,000no account filed
July 2024HailLoomis$125,000no account filed
December 2011Thunderstorm WindLoomis$50,000A 60 foot tall empty grain bin, which was not well secured to the ground, was destroyed by wind gusts estimated at 55 mph.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindLoomis$50,000Penny size hail was also reported with the strong winds.
May 2002HailLoomis$45,000no account filed
July 2006HailLoomis$25,000no account filed
May 2005HailLoomis$25,000no account filed
May 1999HailLoomis$20,000no account filed
May 1999HailLoomis$10,000no account filed
May 1999HailLoomis$10,000no account filed
July 1996HailLoomis$10,000no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindLoomis$5,000no account filed
July 1996HailLoomis$5,000no account filed
July 2019Thunderstorm WindLoomis$2,000A power line was blown down across Highway 23.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindLoomis-A wind gust of 67 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located on the east side of Loomis.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindLoomis-A wind gust of 58 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located seven miles north of Loomis.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindLoomis-A wind gust of 58 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located five miles south-southwest of Elm Creek.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindLoomis-A wind gust of 59 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located 5 miles south-southwest of Elm Creek.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindLoomis-A wind gust of 59 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located six miles south-southwest of Elm Creek.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindLoomis-A wind gust of 64 MPH was recorded by a mesonet station located 3 miles east of Loomis.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindLoomis-A 66 MPH wind gust was recorded by a mesonet station located 3 miles east of Loomis. Gust was associated with a dissipating thunderstorm.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindLoomis-Severe wind was estimated by a trained spotter.
May 2011Heavy RainLoomis-Storm total rainfall of 6.36 inches reported over last 24 hours by a NeRAIN observer.
October 2011Heavy RainLoomis-Total rainfall over the past 24 hours of 5.33 inches was reported by a Nebraska Rainfall Assessment and Information Network observer.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindLoomis-Wind gusts were estimated between 60 and 70 MPH.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindLoomis-Wind gusts estimated at 60 mph.
June 2009HailLoomis-Dime to nickel size hail was reported.
May 2024HailLoomis-no account filed
May 2023HailLoomis-no account filed
June 2019Thunderstorm WindLoomis-no account filed
June 2019Thunderstorm WindLoomis-no account filed
June 2019HailLoomis-no account filed
March 2017Thunderstorm WindLoomis-no account filed
May 2017Thunderstorm WindLoomis-no account filed
May 2016HailLoomis-no account filed
May 2012HailLoomis-no account filed
May 2012HailLoomis-no account filed
April 2010HailLoomis-no account filed
May 2010HailLoomis-no account filed
August 2010HailLoomis-no account filed
September 2006HailLoomis-no account filed
March 2003HailLoomis-no account filed
June 2002HailLoomis-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Phelps 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
Clyde6.5 miles13
Bertrand7.5 miles16
Holdrege7.7 miles13
Atlanta7.9 miles13
Westmark8.3 miles16
Sacramento13.2 miles13
Funk13.7 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 LoomisAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2914486The 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 830891. 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.