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Memphis, Nebraska

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Clear Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68042. It stands on Silver Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ashland West quadrangle. 109 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,119 feet above sea level.

Memphis within Saunders County

Population over time

2 figures

Memphis fell from 114 to 109 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
2010114
2020109-5 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

54 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Memphis between 2007 and 2020, burning about 2,220 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
9 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2012Debris and open burning3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
14 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
14 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
10 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
30 August 2012Debris and open burning3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
3 August 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
2 August 2020Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saunders County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Memphis: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ashland Stone Co. Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Saunders County

Storms near this place

12 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Memphis in 12 storm reports between 2003 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 hail, 1 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
May 2003Tornado (F1)Memphis$20,000A tornado touched down near the Memphis State Recreation area just west of Memphis where large cottonwood trees were knocked over. The tornado then moved to the north of Memphis and lifted around 1 mile northeast of town. The tornado blew a grain bin off of its foundation and knocked a storage shed over near county road D and Highway 63. A center pivot irrigation system northeast of town was also flipped over before the tornado lifted.
May 2011FloodMemphis$5,000Rainfall of 2 to 3 inches fell over a large part of the Wahoo Creek basin causing it to flood around the Ithaca area. The Creek's stage at Ithaca crested just under 20 feet in the early evening hours of 5/20, flood stage is 19 feet. The flooding closed a few county roads and flooded farmland along the river. The fairgrounds on the southeast side of Wahoo also flooded.
April 2024Tornado (EF1)Memphis-A storm chaser with time and location stamps on their video tracked a tornado through mainly open fields. The storm damage survey indicated locations with snapped tree trunks, as well as one farmstead on Emery Road between County Road 8 and County Road 7 that was impacted. At that location, several trees were snapped, a barn was badly damaged, and there was minor damage to a home. The tornado was intermittent near the end of the track, but had a persistent surface circulation and dust whirl, as well as a partially to fully condensed funnel cloud for its entire duration. This segment is a continuation of the Lancaster County portion of this tornado. The maximum estimated wind speeds from this tornado in Saunders County was 108 miles per hour, with a peak width of 50 yards and an average width of 40 yards.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindMemphis-Mesonet station NB075 measured a peak wind gust of 63 mph.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindMemphis-Public reported a destroyed garage and shed.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindMemphis-Storm chaser reported widespread tree damage.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindMemphis-Storm chaser reported trees down everywhere.
June 2016HailMemphis-The spotter indicated the nickle to quarter size hail lasted for 10 minutes.
August 2016Tornado (EF0)Memphis-A brief landspout tornado was reported via social media. The tornado was small and last only a couple of minutes with no damage reported.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindMemphis-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 to 70 mph and zero visibility in heavy rain was reported a little east of Memphis.
March 2006Thunderstorm WindMemphis-The Saunders county emergency manager estimated thunderstorm wind gusts were between 60 and 70 mph.
March 2006HailMemphis-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
Riverside4.0 miles17
Abel4.3 miles17
Ashland5.1 miles17
Wann5.4 miles15
Big Sandy Lake5.6 miles15
Iron Horse5.7 miles17
Ithaca7.4 miles12
Mead9.6 miles17

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 MemphisAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3289795The 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 831213. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.