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.
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
First Congregational Church, U.C.C.listed 1982
Population over time
2 figuresNaponee 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 106 | |
| 2020 | 83 | -23 (-22%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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.
- 1896 USGS Holdrege quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Grand Island quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Grand Island quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Grand Island quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Republican City quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Holdrege quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
10 since 2000Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Smoking | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 13 August 2020 | Smoking | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 10 August 2012 | Smoking | 20 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 9 April 2019 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 8 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 27 April 2009 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 21 February 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 20 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 14 February 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
35 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Naponee | $500,000 | A 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 2023 | Hail | Naponee | $500,000 | A 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 2023 | Hail | Naponee | $250,000 | Hail 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 2018 | Lightning | Naponee | $50,000 | There 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 2008 | Flash Flood | Naponee | $50,000 | Numerous areas in Franklin County picked up 3 to 4 inches of rain. This caused many rural roads to flood. |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Naponee | $50,000 | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Naponee | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Flash Flood | Naponee | $20,000 | Thunderstorms 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 2007 | Hail | Naponee | $20,000 | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Naponee | $10,000 | Wind gusts estimated to be near 70 MPH resulted in three damaged power poles in the area. |
| August 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Naponee | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Naponee | $3,000 | Wind gusts estimated to be near 60 MPH resulted in minor tree damage in town. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Naponee | - | There was a report of small branches downed in the Naponee area. |
| October 2017 | Heavy Rain | Naponee | - | A 24-hour rainfall total of 3.37 inches was reported 2 miles southwest of Naponee. |
| October 2017 | Heavy Rain | Naponee | - | A 24-hour rainfall total of 3.17 inches was reported in Naponee. |
| August 2015 | Heavy Rain | Naponee | - | A 24 hour rainfall total of 3.37 inches occurred in Naponee. Rain began in the early afternoon on August 4th. |
| October 2014 | Hail | Naponee | - | This report is from NERAIN network. |
| May 2002 | Tornado (F0) | Naponee | - | A small tornado briefly touched down east of Naponee |
| August 2020 | Hail | Naponee | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Naponee | - | no account filed |
| April 2019 | Hail | Naponee | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Naponee | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Naponee | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Naponee | - | no account filed |
| September 2012 | Hail | Naponee | - | no account filed |
| March 2011 | Hail | Naponee | - | no account filed |
| March 2011 | Hail | Naponee | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Naponee | - | no account filed |
| March 2004 | Hail | Naponee | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Naponee | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Naponee | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Naponee | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Naponee | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Naponee | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Tornado (F0) | Naponee | - | 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 Naponee | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2153530 | 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 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.





