Martinsburg, Nebraska
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Galena Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68770. It stands on Daily Branch. The Survey maps it on the Martinsburg quadrangle. 78 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,253 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresMartinsburg fell from 94 to 78 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 | 94 | |
| 2020 | 78 | -16 (-17%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 18 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.
- 1898 USGS Elk Point quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1901 USGS Elk Point quadrangle1:125000
- 1907 USGS Elk Point quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1955 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Martinsburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Sioux City North quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
11 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Martinsburg between 2007 and 2020, burning about 162 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 | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 August 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 28 June 2016 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 12 May 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 4 April 2008 | Debris and open burning | 42 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 30 April 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 25 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 18 April 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 40 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 14 April 2008 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
21 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Martinsburg in 21 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 12 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2011 | Hail | Martinsburg | $100,000 | Large hail caused widespread crop damage, destroying some corn crops completely. The hail also damaged roofs and siding on buildings, and severely dented vehicles and broke windows. A stock trailer was destroyed by the large hail in combination with damaging winds. The hail, also in combination with damaging winds, caused severe tree damage. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Martinsburg | $50,000 | Thunderstorm winds, in combination with very large hail, caused damage to roofs and siding of homes, destroyed a stock trailer, and caused widespread crop and tree damage. |
| August 2011 | Hail | Martinsburg | $10,000 | Large hail broke windows and dented vehicles. Hail accumulation and resulting fog caused a semi truck to tip over, causing minor injuries to the driver. The hail also caused an unknown amount of crop damage. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Martinsburg | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds destroyed a farm building. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Martinsburg | - | Thunderstorm winds removed several limbs up to two inches in diameter. |
| August 2011 | Hail | Martinsburg | - | Large hail caused widespread damage to corn and soybean crops, and also caused widespread tree damage. The hail was accompanied by estimated 70 mph wind gusts and heavy rainfall of around 4 inches. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Martinsburg | - | Thunderstorm winds, combined with large hail, caused severe damage to corn and soybean crops. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Martinsburg | - | Thunderstorm winds, in combination with large hail, caused damage to corn and soybean crops, and to trees. |
| August 2011 | Hail | Martinsburg | - | Quarter size hail, accompanied by estimated 70 mph winds, caused damage to corn and soybean crops and to trees. |
| September 2003 | Flash Flood | Martinsburg | - | Heavy rainfall of 3 to 5 inches caused a rapid overflow of a small creek. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Martinsburg | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage. The amount of damage was not known. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Martinsburg | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including large branches down. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Martinsburg | - | no account filed |
| July 2021 | Hail | Martinsburg | - | no account filed |
| August 2018 | Hail | Martinsburg | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Martinsburg | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Martinsburg | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Martinsburg | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Martinsburg | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Martinsburg | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Martinsburg | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waterbury | 6.2 miles | 9 | |
| Allen | 6.4 miles | 9 | |
| Ponca | 7.6 miles | 20 | |
| Newcastle | 10.1 miles | 19 | |
| Dixon | 10.9 miles | 9 | |
| Lembke Landing | 11.1 miles | 19 | |
| Ionia (historical) | 11.4 miles | 19 | |
| Concord | 12.0 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 Martinsburg | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q931299 | 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 831075. 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.







