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.
Population over time
2 figuresMacy 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,023 | |
| 2020 | 1,045 | +22 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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 Sioux City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Macy quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Sioux City South quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
610 since 1992Regional 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/incendiarism | 159 |
| Debris and open burning | 118 |
| Smoking | 108 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 93 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 89 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 17 |
| Fireworks | 11 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 11 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Winnebago Agency | BIA #420 |
| 15 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Winnebago Agency | OR7 |
| 14 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Winnebago Agency | OR6 |
| 14 September 1998 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Winnebago Agency | WR1 |
| 11 September 2012 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 80 acres | Winnebago Agency | BIA #421 |
| 10 September 2001 | Smoking | 35 acres | Winnebago Agency | BBOTM |
| 30 August 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.7 acres | Winnebago Agency | BIA 07-20 |
| 1 August 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
26 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2013 | Tornado (EF2) | Macy | 2 hurt | Tornado 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 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Macy | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Flood | Macy | $5,000 | Flooding 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 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Macy | - | Emergency Management relayed a report of a 70 mph wind gust recorded in the town of Macy. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Macy | - | Large tree limbs were blown down. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Macy | - | A spotter estimated 60 mph wind gust 3 miles northwest of Macy. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Macy | - | A storm spotter estimated a 60 mph wind gust 2 miles northwest of Macy. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Macy | - | Dime to nickel size hail reported near Macy. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Macy | - | A couple of trees were blown downed blocking the road. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Macy | - | There were 3 trees reported blown down just to the southwest of the city of Macy. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Macy | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated to have reached around 60 mph in the Macy area. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Macy | - | Hail up to 1 inch in diameter fell for at least 15 to 20 minutes northwest of Decatur. |
| July 2008 | Flash Flood | Macy | - | 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 2008 | Hail | Macy | - | The hail was reported with 50 mph winds. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Macy | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph by the public. |
| July 2002 | Tornado (F0) | Macy | - | Law enforcement reported a brief touchdown of a small tornado in open country south of Macy. |
| June 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Macy | - | Tornado touched down in Missouri river bluffs. |
| May 2015 | Hail | Macy | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Macy | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Macy | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Macy | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Macy | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Macy | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Macy | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Macy | - | no account filed |
| April 1998 | Hail | Macy | - | 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 Macy | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q963605 | 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 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.




