BlockBefore

Naper, Nebraska

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Basin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68755. The Survey maps it on the Naper quadrangle. 89 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,985 feet above sea level.

Research this city

Naper within Boyd County

On record in Naper

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

Naper grew from 84 to 89 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
201084
202089+5 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Naper in 2014, 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
6 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionEXIT 31

Every fire recorded in Boyd County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Naper: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Rosebud Sioux Pit 219 1/2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Boyd County

Storms near this place

46 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Naper in 46 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 37 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
March 2019FloodNaper$1,000,000County road bridge 8 miles south of Naper along the Niobrara River reported destroyed by heavy rain and snow melt that led to ice jams that broke up and moved downstream.
July 2010Flash FloodNaper$100,000Thunderstorms training over the same areas produced six to nine inches of rainfall in northern Holt and central Boyd counties. Several roads were closed due to water flowing across the roads to include Highway 12 between Bristow and Lynch, while numerous roads were washed out 9 to 12 miles north of Stuart. Spencer Dam authorities announced that the dam had reached capacity resulting in high releases of water downstream of the dam.
June 2009HailNaper$15,000The hail broke windows and damaged the siding on a home.
June 2009HailNaper$15,000Hail broke windows and piled up to 3 inches deep.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindNaper$15,000Two foot diameter trees were uprooted.
June 2009HailNaper$10,000Hail covered the ground.
June 2009HailNaper$5,000no account filed
June 2009HailNaper$3,000no account filed
May 2007HailNaper$1,200A vehicle sustained hail damage.
May 2007HailNaper$1,200no account filed
August 2024HailNaper-Time was estimated from radar.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindNaper-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated at 60 MPH at this location along with half inch diameter hail.
July 2018Flash FloodNaper-Water over roads but no road closures.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindNaper-Wind gusts were estimated to have blown at 60 m.p.h.
August 2010Heavy RainNaper-Law enforcement reported 2 inches of rain fell in less than 20 minutes.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindNaper-Five inch tree branches were broken by thunderstorm wind gusts.
August 2009HailNaper-Golf ball size hail caused extensive crop damage. The hail was accompanied by up to 2.5 inches of rainfall.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindNaper-Numerous 8 inch diameter tree limbs were broken by strong thunderstorm outflow winds.
September 1998HailNaper-Hail damage to grassland.
July 2025HailNaper-no account filed
July 2025HailNaper-no account filed
May 2016HailNaper-no account filed
June 2014HailNaper-no account filed
June 2014HailNaper-no account filed
August 2013HailNaper-no account filed
June 2011HailNaper-no account filed
June 2011HailNaper-no account filed
June 2011HailNaper-no account filed
June 2011HailNaper-no account filed
May 2011HailNaper-no account filed
June 2010HailNaper-no account filed
June 2010HailNaper-no account filed
August 2010HailNaper-no account filed
September 2010HailNaper-no account filed
June 2003HailNaper-no account filed
May 2002HailNaper-no account filed
August 2002HailNaper-no account filed
June 2001HailNaper-no account filed
July 2001HailNaper-no account filed
September 2001HailNaper-no account filed
July 2000HailNaper-no account filed
May 1999HailNaper-no account filed
June 1999HailNaper-no account filed
June 1999HailNaper-no account filed
July 1997HailNaper-no account filed
September 1997HailNaper-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boyd 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
Butte13.6 miles9
Anoka14.1 miles9
Baker (historical)19.5 miles9
Spencer21.8 miles10
Rosedale (historical)27.7 miles9
Gross27.8 miles9
Bristow28.4 miles11
Lynch34.7 miles11

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 NaperAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2481835The 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 831558. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.