Moorefield, Nebraska
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Moorefield precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69039. The Survey maps it on the Moorefield quadrangle. 27 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,831 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresMoorefield fell from 32 to 27 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 | 32 | |
| 2020 | 27 | -5 (-16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 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.
- 1902 USGS Gothenburg quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS McCook quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Moorefield quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS McCook quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS McCook quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Gothenburg quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
4 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Moorefield between 2016 and 2020, burning about 3 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 | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 September 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 17 August 2016 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 5 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 17 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
31 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moorefield in 31 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 18 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2007 | Tornado (EF2) | Moorefield | $240,000 | This tornado formed 4 miles southeast of Moorefield and tracked north for 4 miles before exiting Frontier County about 3 miles east northeast of Moorefield at 825 PM CST. The tornado continued into Lincoln County for another 13 miles before dissipating at 846 PM CST. As it touched down in Frontier County, it immediately hit a farmstead and took off the roof and attached garage on the house, collapsed a grain bin and carried a horse trailer across the road about 50 yards. The tornado continued north through fields overturning 3 pivot irrigation systems and several power poles before destroying a metal building on another farmstead. The tornado continued north across Highway 23 and traveled just west of one farmstead...breaking windows in the home and destroying a grain bin...and then east of another farmstead where it destroyed one small shed, took part of the roof off a hay barn, scattered irrigation pipe, destroyed a wind mill, and pulled a fence line out of the ground. Numerous trees were broken and uprooted along the path of the tornado. In Lincoln County, it continued to produce extensive damage at 2 more farmsteads. At one of these farmsteads, two adults were injured as their house was destroyed. The tornado was rated F2 in Frontier County and F3 in Lincoln County. The average path width in Frontier County was 220 yards. |
| August 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moorefield | $150,000 | Trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds in Moorefield. Also in and near Moorefield, a greenhouse was destroyed as a metal shed was picked up from its foundation, lifted over a van, and dropped onto the greenhouse. Wood from inside the shed was driven into the side of a wooden truck box. Lightning struck a cedar tree and killed a bull standing nearby. Irrigation pipe throughout the area was blown and tossed about. |
| August 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moorefield | $50,000 | Thunderstorms moved through Frontier County produced damaging wind. In and near Moorefield, a greenhouse was destroyed as a metal shed was picked up from its foundation, lifted over a van and dropped onto the greenhouse. Wood from the inside the shed was driven into the side of a wooden truck box. Also, numerous trees were broken or damaged by the wind. Lightening struck a cedar tree and killed a bull standing nearby. Irrigation pipe throughout the area was blown around. |
| May 1998 | Hail | Moorefield | $50,000 | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moorefield | $20,000 | A pop-up camper was destroyed and 4 inch diameter tree limbs were broken by thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| August 2001 | Hail | Moorefield | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Moorefield | $5,000 | Heavy rainfall of 6 to 8 inches caused flash flooding with water flowing over roadways. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Moorefield | $1,500 | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moorefield | $100 | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moorefield | - | A trained weather spotter estimated 60 mph winds east of Curtis. |
| May 2021 | Hail | Moorefield | - | Time estimated by radar. |
| May 2019 | Tornado (EF0) | Moorefield | - | Tornado touched down in Frontier County, then moved northeast into Dawson County. In Frontier County the tornado downed large tree limbs. |
| July 2017 | Flood | Moorefield | - | Law enforcement reported water over Road 408 south of Farnam. The road has been barricaded for the night. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moorefield | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 MPH. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moorefield | - | General public reported thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph. |
| August 2010 | Heavy Rain | Moorefield | - | A public report of 3.10 inches was measured at 4 miles south of Moorefield. |
| August 2008 | Hail | Moorefield | - | The hail stripped about 80 percent of the corn and soybean crops. |
| August 2008 | Hail | Moorefield | - | The hail covered the ground damaging corn and soybean crops. |
| June 2002 | Hail | Moorefield | - | Pea to dime size hail covered the ground. |
| August 2017 | Hail | Moorefield | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Moorefield | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Funnel Cloud | Moorefield | - | no account filed |
| August 2010 | Hail | Moorefield | - | no account filed |
| September 2008 | Hail | Moorefield | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Moorefield | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Moorefield | - | no account filed |
| October 2007 | Hail | Moorefield | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Moorefield | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Moorefield | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Moorefield | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Moorefield | - | 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 Moorefield | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2784547 | 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 831402. 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.





