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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.

Murdock within Cass County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Murdock 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.

YearPeople Change
2010236
2020270+34 (+14%)

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

3 since 2002

Regional 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/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
30 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
21 July 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
25 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Storms near this place

28 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1997Thunderstorm WindMurdock$1,000Very large tree downed.
May 2024HailMurdock-The office received a public report of quarter sized hail from mPING.
July 2024Flash FloodMurdock-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 2024Thunderstorm WindMurdock-A mesonet station recorded a 66 miles per hour wind gust.
June 2022Tornado (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 2022Thunderstorm WindMurdock-Emergency manager reported two destroyed grain bins and house damage.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindMurdock-Report of multiple trees and power lines down.
June 2022HailMurdock-Public reported quarter sized hail.
June 2022HailMurdock-Trained spotter reported quarter sized hail.
June 2021Heavy RainMurdock-Emergency manager reported 6.20 inches of rainfall.
June 2021Flash FloodMurdock-Public reported via mPing river/creek overflowing; cropland/yard/basement flooding.
September 2018FloodMurdock-Minor flooding reported in the Murdock areas, and also on the northwest side of the Louisville Lakes area.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindMurdock-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 2010Flash FloodMurdock-Rainfall of 2 to 4 inches caused flash flooding across 310th Street just north of Highway 1 near Murdock.
March 2009Thunderstorm WindMurdock-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 2008Thunderstorm WindMurdock-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 2004Tornado (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 1998Thunderstorm WindMurdock-Pole barn destroyed.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindMurdock-Tree damage.
April 2017HailMurdock-no account filed
September 2015HailMurdock-no account filed
April 2013HailMurdock-no account filed
May 2011HailMurdock-no account filed
June 2005HailMurdock-no account filed
June 2005HailMurdock-no account filed
June 2005HailMurdock-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindMurdock-no account filed
June 1994HailMurdock-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cass 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
Wabash3.0 miles14
South Bend5.6 miles17
Elmwood5.8 miles13
Manley6.1 miles13
Alvo6.8 miles13
Louisville8.0 miles13
Weeping Water8.3 miles13
Greenwood8.9 miles14

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 MurdockAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3287960The 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.