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Naponee, Nebraska

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Turkey Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68960. It stands on Turkey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Republican City quadrangle. 83 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,919 feet above sea level.

Naponee within Franklin County

On record in Naponee

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

Naponee fell from 106 to 83 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
2010106
202083-23 (-22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

10 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Naponee between 2000 and 2020, burning about 89 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
Smoking4
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
14 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
13 August 2020Smoking2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
10 August 2012Smoking20 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
9 April 2019Smoking1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
8 April 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
27 April 2009Debris and open burning15 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
21 February 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution20 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
14 February 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

35 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Naponee in 35 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 20 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 heavy rain, 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 2023Thunderstorm WindNaponee$500,000A weakening cluster of thunderstorms sliding east just north of the Nebraska-Kansas state line produced severe weather across southwestern portions of Franklin County. The NWS Cooperative Observer in Naponee reported hail around golf ball size and wind gusts exceeding 60 MPH.
June 2023HailNaponee$500,000A weakening cluster of thunderstorms sliding east just north of the Nebraska-Kansas state line produced severe weather across southwestern portions of Franklin County. The NWS Cooperative Observer in Naponee reported hail around golf ball size and wind gusts exceeding 60 MPH.
May 2023HailNaponee$250,000Hail up to the size of golf balls was reported in the area. Hail up to nickel size was reported starting around 530 PM CDT, with the larger hail starting approximately 15 minutes later.
August 2018LightningNaponee$50,000There was a lightning strike to an area of oil storage tanks, resulting in a fire. This fire destroyed 4 of the 5 storage tanks located at the facility. The time was estimated from radar data.
May 2008Flash FloodNaponee$50,000Numerous areas in Franklin County picked up 3 to 4 inches of rain. This caused many rural roads to flood.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindNaponee$50,000no account filed
May 2012HailNaponee$25,000no account filed
May 2008Flash FloodNaponee$20,000Thunderstorms moved northeast out of northern Kansas and into southern Nebraska and dumped several inches of rain in southeast Franklin County during the evening and nighttime hours. This caused several roads and small creeks to become flooded.
May 2007HailNaponee$20,000no account filed
July 2024Thunderstorm WindNaponee$10,000Wind gusts estimated to be near 70 MPH resulted in three damaged power poles in the area.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindNaponee$10,000no account filed
July 2024Thunderstorm WindNaponee$3,000Wind gusts estimated to be near 60 MPH resulted in minor tree damage in town.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindNaponee-There was a report of small branches downed in the Naponee area.
October 2017Heavy RainNaponee-A 24-hour rainfall total of 3.37 inches was reported 2 miles southwest of Naponee.
October 2017Heavy RainNaponee-A 24-hour rainfall total of 3.17 inches was reported in Naponee.
August 2015Heavy RainNaponee-A 24 hour rainfall total of 3.37 inches occurred in Naponee. Rain began in the early afternoon on August 4th.
October 2014HailNaponee-This report is from NERAIN network.
May 2002Tornado (F0)Naponee-A small tornado briefly touched down east of Naponee
August 2020HailNaponee-no account filed
June 2019HailNaponee-no account filed
April 2019HailNaponee-no account filed
June 2017HailNaponee-no account filed
May 2016HailNaponee-no account filed
April 2012HailNaponee-no account filed
September 2012HailNaponee-no account filed
March 2011HailNaponee-no account filed
March 2011HailNaponee-no account filed
May 2010HailNaponee-no account filed
March 2004HailNaponee-no account filed
May 2004HailNaponee-no account filed
May 2003HailNaponee-no account filed
June 2002HailNaponee-no account filed
May 2001HailNaponee-no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindNaponee-no account filed
July 1996Tornado (F0)Naponee-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Bloomington5.7 miles13
Franklin10.1 miles12
Macon13.4 miles12
Hildreth18.7 miles13
Riverton20.3 miles12
Upland21.0 miles12
Campbell26.5 miles12

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 NaponeeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2153530The 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 831562. 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.