Murdock, Nebraska
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Elmwood precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68407. The Survey maps it on the Murdock quadrangle. 270 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,280 feet above sea level.
On record in Murdock
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Christian Kupke Farmsteadlisted 2012
Population over time
2 figuresMurdock grew from 236 to 270 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 | 236 | |
| 2020 | 270 | +34 (+14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 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.
- 1903 USGS Weeping Water quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1929 USGS Weeping Water quadrangle1:125000
- 1955 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Murdock quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Murdock between 2002 and 2012, burning about 9 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 August 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 8.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 21 July 2002 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 25 April 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
28 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Murdock in 28 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 11 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Murdock | $1,000 | Very large tree downed. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Murdock | - | The office received a public report of quarter sized hail from mPING. |
| July 2024 | Flash Flood | Murdock | - | Amateur radio reported approximately half a foot of water running over country roads northeast of Murdock. Most of this was runoff from nearby agricultural fields. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Murdock | - | A mesonet station recorded a 66 miles per hour wind gust. |
| June 2022 | Tornado (EF1) | Murdock | - | A tornado developed near Church Road west of 298th Street and immediately damaged a home. One of the roof peaks was torn off and garage doors blown in. The damage here was very focused as nearby trees were not damaged, but insulation from the home was stuck to 3 different sides of the home, indicating this was likely a tornado. Farther east, there was an area of focused tree damage approximately 150 yards wide embedded within a several mile wide area of more minor tree damage. The tornado continued east where it snapped several power poles and caused minor damage to a church. Additional damage to grain bins and trees was noted along Church road just west of 322nd street, which appears to be the end of the focused damage most likely caused by the tornado. This tornado occurred within a several mile wide area of intense straight-line wind damage which was caused by winds at times greater than 80 mph. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Murdock | - | Emergency manager reported two destroyed grain bins and house damage. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Murdock | - | Report of multiple trees and power lines down. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Murdock | - | Public reported quarter sized hail. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Murdock | - | Trained spotter reported quarter sized hail. |
| June 2021 | Heavy Rain | Murdock | - | Emergency manager reported 6.20 inches of rainfall. |
| June 2021 | Flash Flood | Murdock | - | Public reported via mPing river/creek overflowing; cropland/yard/basement flooding. |
| September 2018 | Flood | Murdock | - | Minor flooding reported in the Murdock areas, and also on the northwest side of the Louisville Lakes area. |
| September 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Murdock | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 70 mph blew a tree onto a car causing significant damage, and also downed many large limbs and uprooted a few trees in the Murdock area. The winds also snapped power poles in the region and blew a truck off of Highway 1. School was canceled the next day due to loss of power. |
| September 2010 | Flash Flood | Murdock | - | Rainfall of 2 to 4 inches caused flash flooding across 310th Street just north of Highway 1 near Murdock. |
| March 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Murdock | - | Scattered wind damage from a low-topped supercell thunderstorm that earlier produced 5 tornadoes to the south, was reported west through southwest of the South Bend area. Due to the tree and farm outbuilding damage noted, a NWS Storm Survey estimated that wind speeds were between 90 and 100 mph. |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Murdock | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 70 mph caused widespread tree damage across much of Cass county, including the Weeping Water area where part of a roof was torn off of an auditorium and some windows blown out. Many power lines were also downed. |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F1) | Murdock | - | A tornado was on the ground for around 1.5 miles just west through north of Murdock. The tornado knocked down many trees and power lines in the area, and several outbuildings were destroyed. This tornado was from the same supercell complex that spawned the long tracked f4 tornado that did extensive damage in the Hallam area. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Murdock | - | Pole barn destroyed. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Murdock | - | Tree damage. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Murdock | - | no account filed |
| September 2015 | Hail | Murdock | - | no account filed |
| April 2013 | Hail | Murdock | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Murdock | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Murdock | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Murdock | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Murdock | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Murdock | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Murdock | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wabash | 3.0 miles | 14 | |
| South Bend | 5.6 miles | 17 | |
| Elmwood | 5.8 miles | 13 | |
| Manley | 6.1 miles | 13 | |
| Alvo | 6.8 miles | 13 | |
| Louisville | 8.0 miles | 13 | |
| Weeping Water | 8.3 miles | 13 | |
| Greenwood | 8.9 miles | 14 |
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 Murdock | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3287960 | 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 831536. 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.






