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Mead, Nebraska

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Marietta Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68041. The Survey maps it on the Mead quadrangle. 617 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,211 feet above sea level.

Mead within Saunders County

Population over time

2 figures

Mead grew from 569 to 617 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
2010569
2020617+48 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

31 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Mead between 2007 and 2020, burning about 321 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
Debris and open burning23
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking1

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
28 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
12 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
19 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 June 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
14 June 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
13 June 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
13 May 2017Smoking1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
7 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saunders County

Storms near this place

30 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mead in 30 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 13 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2010Thunderstorm WindMead$500,000Thunderstorm winds and hail up to 2 inches in diameter caused substantial damage to the University of Nebraska agricultural research center. Winds were estimated to have gusted between 70 and 80 mph. Damage estimates to the center included $800,000 in crop damage, $500,000 in building damage and $250,000 in vehicle damage. Thirty-seven buildings had broken windows, siding and/or roof damage. Several horses were injured and had to be euthanized when the open-front portable building they were in was toppled.
September 2010HailMead$250,000Thunderstorm winds and hail up to 2 inches in diameter caused substantial damage to the University of Nebraska agricultural research center. Winds were estimated to have gusted between 70 and 80 mph. Damage estimates to the center included $800,000 in crop damage, $500,000 in building damage and $250,000 in vehicle damage. Thirty-seven buildings had broken windows, siding and/or roof damage and several horses were injured and had to be euthanized when the open-front portable building they were in was toppled.
March 2006Tornado (F0)Mead$50,000A weak tornado, estimated at fo strength, tracked around a quarter of a mile, 6 miles south of Mead. The width of the damage path was around 100 yards. The tornado partially ripped the roof off of a large metal storage building tossing some of the debris a 1000 feet or so to the northeast. The tornado also caused some tree damage.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindMead$50,000Strong thunderstorm winds damaged buildings at a manufacturing plant.
May 2011Flash FloodMead$1,000Heavy rain, estimated at between 2 and 3 inches, caused a brief closure of Highway 92 between Mead and Yutan due to water and mud over the road.
June 2022HailMead-Public reported quarter sized hail.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindMead-Emergency manager reported powerlines down.
August 2021HailMead-Mping report for 1 inch hail.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindMead-Emergency Manager reported power lines across Highway 92 and that the power was out in Mead.
March 2019FloodMead-Highway 92 was closed.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindMead-Power poles leaning due to damaging thunderstorm winds along US Highway 77 north of Mead. In addition, wind split a large tree in half.
September 2018Heavy RainMead-Amateur radio operators reported 2.0 inches of rain.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindMead-A spotter estimated a thunderstorm wind gust reached close to 70 mph in the Mead area.
June 2010HailMead-Pea to nickel-size hail was reported in the Mead area.
March 2006Thunderstorm WindMead-Thunderstorm winds estimated at over 60 mph flipped a center pivot south of Mead. The winds were from the same storm that produced a weak tornado just to the south. However, according to a NWS storm survey it appeared that the tornado had lifted by the time it flipped the pivot.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindMead-Thunderstorm winds were estimated by the public at 60 to 70 mph in Mead.
July 2004HailMead-Hail up to 1 inch in diameter covered the ground.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindMead-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated at around 75 mph by law enforcement between Mead and Wahoo.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindMead-Thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 mph were estimated by a ham radio operator. Trees and power lines were downed knocking the power out in Mead.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindMead-Thunderstorm wind gusts downed small trees and power lines in Mead. From the same storm complex that caused the extensive tree damage around Wahoo.
August 1994Thunderstorm WindMead-Strong thunderstorm winds caused damage to the roof of Mead High School.
September 2018HailMead-no account filed
June 2018Thunderstorm WindMead-no account filed
April 2016HailMead-no account filed
April 2015HailMead-no account filed
May 2013HailMead-no account filed
May 2012HailMead-no account filed
July 2008HailMead-no account filed
July 2006HailMead-no account filed
July 2005HailMead-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Saunders 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
Yutan4.9 miles17
Ithaca5.3 miles12
Wahoo7.1 miles12
Leshara7.7 miles15
Colon7.9 miles11
Wann9.0 miles15
Swedeburg9.6 miles12
Memphis9.6 miles14

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 MeadAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2662726The 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 831169. 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.