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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.

Minatare within Scotts Bluff County

Population over time

2 figures

Minatare 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.

YearPeople Change
2010816
2020715-101 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

100 since 2007

Regional 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 burning70
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use8
Fireworks3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
13 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
12 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2009Debris and open burning5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
26 August 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
25 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
11 August 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
11 August 2007Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
9 July 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scotts Bluff County

Storms near this place

42 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2003Tornado (F0)Minatare$50,000Nearly stationary tornado reported along Stonegate Road. Cow shed destroyed.
July 2001HailMinatare$50,0001 to 2 inch diameter hail reported.
August 1996Thunderstorm WindMinatare$4,000no account filed
May 2010Thunderstorm WindMinatare$3,600At 1120MST a power pole was reported down along Highway 26.
June 2025HailMinatare-MPing report from a storm chaser via the spotter network of 1 inch hail near Melbeta, NE.
July 2023HailMinatare-Emergency Manager first reported 2.0 inch hail 8 miles north northeast of Minatare. Lasted 5 minutes.
July 2023HailMinatare-EM reported quarter sized hail 4 miles east of Minatare.
July 2023HailMinatare-Report from 4E Minatare of golf ball sized hail. Extensive crop damage reported between and north of Minatare and Bayard.
July 2023HailMinatare-Twitter post for quarter size hail 3E Minatare.
July 2023HailMinatare-Report of quarter size hail 7NE Minatare.
June 2023HailMinatare-Received report from mPING.
June 2023HailMinatare-A trained spotter reported baseball sized hail 5 miles NE of Minatare.
June 2023Tornado (EFU)Minatare-A trained spotter reported a tornado 2 miles WNW of Minatare.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindMinatare-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 to 65 mph at Minatare.
July 2016HailMinatare-Golf ball size hail was reported at Minatare.
July 2016HailMinatare-Half dollar size hail was reported four miles north of Minatare.
June 2015HailMinatare-Quarter size hail was reported at Minatare.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindMinatare-Wind gusts estimated at 60 mph were observed on the west side of Minatare.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindMinatare-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 to 65 mph in Minatare.
June 2014HailMinatare-Grapefruit size hail was observed northeast of Minatare.
May 2014HailMinatare-Quarter size hail was observed east of Minatare.
June 2013HailMinatare-Dime to quarter size hail was reported in Minatare.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindMinatare-Wind gusts estimated at 50 to 60 mph were reported north of Minatare at the intersection of Stonegate Road and Highland Road.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindMinatare-A trained spotter estimated wind gusts of 60 mph.
June 2010Funnel CloudMinatare-Report located along US Highway 26. Estimated duration.
July 1994HailMinatare-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 2024HailMinatare-no account filed
June 2023HailMinatare-no account filed
May 2021HailMinatare-no account filed
July 2020HailMinatare-no account filed
July 2020HailMinatare-no account filed
July 2019HailMinatare-no account filed
August 2019HailMinatare-no account filed
August 2019HailMinatare-no account filed
June 2009HailMinatare-no account filed
May 2003HailMinatare-no account filed
June 2001HailMinatare-no account filed
July 2001HailMinatare-no account filed
May 2000HailMinatare-no account filed
March 1998HailMinatare-no account filed
July 1996Tornado (F0)Minatare-no account filed
May 1996HailMinatare-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Scotts Bluff 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
Melbeta2.1 miles13
Baxter3.8 miles14
Carlson4.4 miles13
Tony5.9 miles14
McGrew6.3 miles13
Hillerage6.4 miles13
Bradley7.0 miles14
Trout8.0 miles13

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 MinatareAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q963106The 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.