Magnet, Nebraska
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Precinct 18. It lies in ZIP code area 68749. The Survey maps it on the Magnet quadrangle. 43 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,827 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresMagnet fell from 57 to 43 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 | 57 | |
| 2020 | 43 | -14 (-25%) |
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
- 1971 USGS Magnet quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Norfolk quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
10 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Magnet between 2007 and 2020, burning about 44 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 July 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 5 July 2012 | Fireworks | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 25 May 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 30 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | 35 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 23 April 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 22 April 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 11 April 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
13 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Magnet in 13 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 7 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Magnet | - | A personal weather station measured a peak wind gust of 63 mph. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Magnet | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at close to 70 mph downed several trees in Magnet and moved a building off of its foundation northwest of town. The downed trees also downed power lines causing a power outage in the area. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Magnet | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at around 70 mph downed trees and power lines in the Hartington area causing power outages. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Magnet | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at around 60 mph blew over a 5th wheel trailer in the area. |
| September 2007 | Hail | Magnet | - | Hail up to tennis ball size was reported just south of Magnet with some vehicle and house damage reported. Some of the hail was still on the ground the next morning. |
| May 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Magnet | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph were accompanied by nickel size hail. |
| May 2005 | Hail | Magnet | - | The hail was accompanied by thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph. |
| May 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Magnet | - | Brief touchdown of tornado witnessed by two people. Tornado touchdown was in open country resulting in no damage to persons or property. |
| October 2016 | Hail | Magnet | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Hail | Magnet | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Magnet | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Magnet | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Magnet | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Randolph | 8.0 miles | 9 | |
| Pleasant Valley | 11.1 miles | 9 | |
| Belden | 14.3 miles | 9 | |
| Coleridge | 14.6 miles | 9 | |
| Hartington | 15.9 miles | 9 | |
| Constance | 17.5 miles | 9 | |
| Fordyce | 17.8 miles | 9 | |
| Laurel | 20.2 miles | 9 |
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 Magnet | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2452942 | 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 831001. 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.




