Minatare, Nebraska
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Dewey Tabor precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69356. It stands on Minatare Drain. The Survey maps it on the Minatare quadrangle. 715 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,825 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresMinatare fell from 816 to 715 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 | 816 | |
| 2020 | 715 | -101 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 13 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 Scotts Bluff quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Scottsbluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Scottsbluff quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Minatare quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Scottsbluff quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
100 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Minatare between 2007 and 2020, burning about 1,041 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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 | 70 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 12 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 8 August 2009 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 26 August 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 25 August 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 11 August 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 11 August 2007 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 9 July 2011 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
42 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Minatare in 42 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 31 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Minatare | $50,000 | Nearly stationary tornado reported along Stonegate Road. Cow shed destroyed. |
| July 2001 | Hail | Minatare | $50,000 | 1 to 2 inch diameter hail reported. |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Minatare | $4,000 | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Minatare | $3,600 | At 1120MST a power pole was reported down along Highway 26. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Minatare | - | MPing report from a storm chaser via the spotter network of 1 inch hail near Melbeta, NE. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Minatare | - | Emergency Manager first reported 2.0 inch hail 8 miles north northeast of Minatare. Lasted 5 minutes. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Minatare | - | EM reported quarter sized hail 4 miles east of Minatare. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Minatare | - | Report from 4E Minatare of golf ball sized hail. Extensive crop damage reported between and north of Minatare and Bayard. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Minatare | - | Twitter post for quarter size hail 3E Minatare. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Minatare | - | Report of quarter size hail 7NE Minatare. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Minatare | - | Received report from mPING. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Minatare | - | A trained spotter reported baseball sized hail 5 miles NE of Minatare. |
| June 2023 | Tornado (EFU) | Minatare | - | A trained spotter reported a tornado 2 miles WNW of Minatare. |
| April 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Minatare | - | Wind gusts were estimated at 60 to 65 mph at Minatare. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Minatare | - | Golf ball size hail was reported at Minatare. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Minatare | - | Half dollar size hail was reported four miles north of Minatare. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Minatare | - | Quarter size hail was reported at Minatare. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Minatare | - | Wind gusts estimated at 60 mph were observed on the west side of Minatare. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Minatare | - | Wind gusts were estimated at 60 to 65 mph in Minatare. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Minatare | - | Grapefruit size hail was observed northeast of Minatare. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Minatare | - | Quarter size hail was observed east of Minatare. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Minatare | - | Dime to quarter size hail was reported in Minatare. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Minatare | - | Wind gusts estimated at 50 to 60 mph were reported north of Minatare at the intersection of Stonegate Road and Highland Road. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Minatare | - | A trained spotter estimated wind gusts of 60 mph. |
| June 2010 | Funnel Cloud | Minatare | - | Report located along US Highway 26. Estimated duration. |
| July 1994 | Hail | Minatare | - | More than three inches of rain fell in an hour, overfilling an irrigation canal. Backups occurred in a sewer system as a result of the runoff, damaging 19 homes. Nearly 200 other homes were flooded due to the storm's runoff, with over $1.1 million in damages. Three inches of hail damaged about 26,500 acres of crops in the area. |
| July 2024 | Hail | Minatare | - | no account filed |
| June 2023 | Hail | Minatare | - | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Hail | Minatare | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Hail | Minatare | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Hail | Minatare | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | Minatare | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Minatare | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Minatare | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Minatare | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Minatare | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Minatare | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Minatare | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Minatare | - | no account filed |
| March 1998 | Hail | Minatare | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Tornado (F0) | Minatare | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Minatare | - | 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 Minatare | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q963106 | 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 831336. 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.




