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.
Population over time
2 figuresMead 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 569 | |
| 2020 | 617 | +48 (+8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 17 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.
- 1893 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:125000
- 1896 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Mead quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1982 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
31 since 2007Regional 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 burning | 23 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 12 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 19 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 6 June 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 14 June 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 13 June 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 13 May 2017 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
30 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mead | $500,000 | Thunderstorm 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 2010 | Hail | Mead | $250,000 | Thunderstorm 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 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Mead | $50,000 | A 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 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mead | $50,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds damaged buildings at a manufacturing plant. |
| May 2011 | Flash Flood | Mead | $1,000 | Heavy 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 2022 | Hail | Mead | - | Public reported quarter sized hail. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mead | - | Emergency manager reported powerlines down. |
| August 2021 | Hail | Mead | - | Mping report for 1 inch hail. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mead | - | Emergency Manager reported power lines across Highway 92 and that the power was out in Mead. |
| March 2019 | Flood | Mead | - | Highway 92 was closed. |
| September 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mead | - | 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 2018 | Heavy Rain | Mead | - | Amateur radio operators reported 2.0 inches of rain. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mead | - | A spotter estimated a thunderstorm wind gust reached close to 70 mph in the Mead area. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Mead | - | Pea to nickel-size hail was reported in the Mead area. |
| March 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mead | - | 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 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mead | - | Thunderstorm winds were estimated by the public at 60 to 70 mph in Mead. |
| July 2004 | Hail | Mead | - | Hail up to 1 inch in diameter covered the ground. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mead | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated at around 75 mph by law enforcement between Mead and Wahoo. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mead | - | 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 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mead | - | 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 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mead | - | Strong thunderstorm winds caused damage to the roof of Mead High School. |
| September 2018 | Hail | Mead | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mead | - | no account filed |
| April 2016 | Hail | Mead | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Mead | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Mead | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Mead | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Mead | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Mead | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Mead | - | 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.
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 Mead | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2662726 | 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 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.






