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Macy, Nebraska

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Blackbird Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68039. It stands on South Blackbird Creek. The Survey maps it on the Macy quadrangle. 1,045 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,115 feet above sea level.

Macy within Thurston County

Population over time

2 figures

Macy grew from 1,023 to 1,045 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
20101,023
20201,045+22 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

610 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 610 fires within 5 miles of Macy between 1992 and 2020, burning about 17,553 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 159 were 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
Arson/incendiarism159
Debris and open burning118
Smoking108
Misuse of fire by a minor93
Missing data/not specified/undetermined89
Equipment and vehicle use17
Fireworks11
Recreation and ceremony11
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreWinnebago AgencyBIA #420
15 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresWinnebago AgencyOR7
14 September 1998Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresWinnebago AgencyOR6
14 September 1998Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresWinnebago AgencyWR1
11 September 2012Misuse of fire by a minor80 acresWinnebago AgencyBIA #421
10 September 2001Smoking35 acresWinnebago AgencyBBOTM
30 August 2020Arson/incendiarism2.7 acresWinnebago AgencyBIA 07-20
1 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use10 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Thurston County

Storms near this place

26 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Macy in 26 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 12 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 1 flash flood. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
October 2013Tornado (EF2)Macy2 hurtTornado damage started in Thurston County approximately 3 miles southwest of Macy in rural areas. The tornado then tracked northeast through Macy. The tornado weakened in intensity as it tracked northeast from the edge of Macy across highway 75 and moved toward the Missouri River. The damage in Macy varied in width from 100 to 250 yards wide. There were a total of 6 homes that were considered to have recieved heavy damage or destroyed and can not be occupied. There were a total of 12 homes and 1 business that received at least minor damage. Numerous vehicles were damaged and there were two minor injuries. Outside of Macy, the majority of the damage was to trees but some farmsteads received minor damage to buildings.
August 1996Thunderstorm WindMacy$10,000no account filed
July 2011FloodMacy$5,000Flooding along the Missouri River continued across the area during July as record releases from Gavins Point Dam brought widespread flooding along the River. Releases from Gavins Point Dam reached around 160,000 cfs after mid June and the high flows continued through July before decreasing some. The gauge at Sioux City, upstream of the county, and Decatur, downstream, were in a moderate flooding category during the month. Flooding in Thurston county was mostly confined to agricultural lowlands, recreation areas and roads near the river, but the flooding did force the evacuation of 12 people near Macy. The flooding persisted into late August.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindMacy-Emergency Management relayed a report of a 70 mph wind gust recorded in the town of Macy.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindMacy-Large tree limbs were blown down.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindMacy-A spotter estimated 60 mph wind gust 3 miles northwest of Macy.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindMacy-A storm spotter estimated a 60 mph wind gust 2 miles northwest of Macy.
May 2017HailMacy-Dime to nickel size hail reported near Macy.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindMacy-A couple of trees were blown downed blocking the road.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindMacy-There were 3 trees reported blown down just to the southwest of the city of Macy.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindMacy-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated to have reached around 60 mph in the Macy area.
May 2011HailMacy-Hail up to 1 inch in diameter fell for at least 15 to 20 minutes northwest of Decatur.
July 2008Flash FloodMacy-Rainfall of around 2 inches in an hour or two caused street flooding in the Macy area. Some of the flooding briefly entered a few homes in the area.
July 2008HailMacy-The hail was reported with 50 mph winds.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindMacy-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph by the public.
July 2002Tornado (F0)Macy-Law enforcement reported a brief touchdown of a small tornado in open country south of Macy.
June 1998Tornado (F0)Macy-Tornado touched down in Missouri river bluffs.
May 2015HailMacy-no account filed
April 2014HailMacy-no account filed
June 2014HailMacy-no account filed
July 2003HailMacy-no account filed
August 2003HailMacy-no account filed
May 2002HailMacy-no account filed
July 2002HailMacy-no account filed
June 2000HailMacy-no account filed
April 1998HailMacy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Thurston 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
Walthill7.4 miles10
Rosalie9.2 miles9
Winnebago10.5 miles10
Pender18.6 miles9
Thurston18.8 miles9

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 MacyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q963605The 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 830989. 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.