Malmo, Nebraska
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Mariposa Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68040. The Survey maps it on the Malmo quadrangle. 94 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,257 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresMalmo fell from 120 to 94 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 | 120 | |
| 2020 | 94 | -26 (-22%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 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.
- 1899 USGS Wahoo quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Malmo quadrangle1:24000
- 1982 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
23 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Malmo between 2005 and 2020, burning about 19 acres in total. 1 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 burning | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Natural | 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 August 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 4 July 2017 | Fireworks | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 31 May 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 26 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 15 May 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 4 April 2009 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 16 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
19 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Malmo in 19 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 15 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2024 | Flash Flood | Malmo | $250,000 | Several prolonged rounds of heavy rain during the early morning hours of the 21st led to flash flooding across central and northeast Saunders County. A National Weather Service employee reported water flowing over U.S. Highway 77 shortly after 7 AM, with traffic cameras showing widespread flooding across fields and roads in and around Wahoo. The Saunders County Emergency Manager also reported 6 homes flooded in Lashara, 4 of which had residents that needed to be evacuated. |
| June 2001 | Flash Flood | Malmo | $2,000 | The same supercell that produced the brief tornado touchdown near Weston also dumped around 2 inches of rain over Saunders county in a short amount of time. This rain caused a normally nearly dry creek north of Malmo to flood. The flood waters swept a car with 4 people in it 200 feet downstream from the low maintenance road they were on. The road was marked with high water signs. Two of the people managed to escaped promptly, but the other two went under water a few times before either managing to make it to shore or being rescued by a neighbor who was summoned to help. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Malmo | - | The office received a report from the public of quarter sized hail 1 mile south of Malmo, Nebraska. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Malmo | - | The office received a public report of half-dollar sized hail. |
| August 2021 | Hail | Malmo | - | Public reported 1 inch hail. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Malmo | - | Public reported 1 inch hail. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Malmo | - | Nickel to quarter-size hail was reported near Prague. The hail was accompanied by winds estimated at greater than 50 mph. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Malmo | - | The officer indicated the hail destroyed the windshield of the cruiser. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Malmo | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph uprooted trees in the Malmo area. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Malmo | - | Trees and power lines were downed around Malmo by the same thunderstorm complex that caused extensive tree damage around Wahoo. |
| August 2002 | Hail | Malmo | - | Hail up to golfball size was reported northwest through north of Malmo. |
| August 2015 | Hail | Malmo | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Malmo | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Malmo | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Malmo | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Malmo | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Malmo | - | no account filed |
| April 1998 | Hail | Malmo | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Malmo | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weston | 5.1 miles | 11 | |
| Prague | 5.5 miles | 11 | |
| Colon | 6.5 miles | 11 | |
| Wahoo | 6.6 miles | 12 | |
| Rescue (historical) | 9.5 miles | 11 | |
| Swedeburg | 10.4 miles | 12 | |
| Touhy | 10.6 miles | 11 | |
| Cedar Bluffs | 10.8 miles | 12 |
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 Malmo | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2252991 | 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 831016. 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.





