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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.

Magnet within Cedar County

Population over time

2 figures

Magnet 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.

YearPeople Change
201057
202043-14 (-25%)

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

10 since 2007

Regional 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 use5
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Fireworks1

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
27 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
7 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
5 July 2012Fireworks1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
25 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
30 April 2020Debris and open burning35 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
23 April 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
22 April 2020Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
11 April 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cedar County

Storms near this place

13 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2023Thunderstorm WindMagnet-A personal weather station measured a peak wind gust of 63 mph.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindMagnet-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 2011Thunderstorm WindMagnet-Thunderstorm winds estimated at around 70 mph downed trees and power lines in the Hartington area causing power outages.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindMagnet-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at around 60 mph blew over a 5th wheel trailer in the area.
September 2007HailMagnet-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 2005Thunderstorm WindMagnet-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph were accompanied by nickel size hail.
May 2005HailMagnet-The hail was accompanied by thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph.
May 2001Tornado (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 2016HailMagnet-no account filed
August 2013HailMagnet-no account filed
May 2011HailMagnet-no account filed
July 2006HailMagnet-no account filed
May 1998HailMagnet-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cedar 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
Randolph8.0 miles9
Pleasant Valley11.1 miles9
Belden14.3 miles9
Coleridge14.6 miles9
Hartington15.9 miles9
Constance17.5 miles9
Fordyce17.8 miles9
Laurel20.2 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 MagnetAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2452942The 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.