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Nonpareil, Nebraska

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Fifteen precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69348. The Survey maps it on the Nonpareil quadrangle.

Nonpareil within Box Butte County

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

18 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Nonpareil between 2007 and 2020, burning about 59 acres in total. 10 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
Natural10
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
22 September 2018Railroad operations and maintenance35 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
19 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
19 August 2007Natural2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
19 August 2007Natural7.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
18 August 2007Railroad operations and maintenance2.1 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
18 August 2007Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
18 August 2007Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
18 August 2007Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Box Butte County

Storms near this place

17 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nonpareil in 17 storm reports between 2013 and 2024: 15 hail, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2024Thunderstorm WindNonpareil-Received social media report estimating 70 mph wind gusts with up to nickel size hail covering the ground.
June 2022HailNonpareil-Hail drifts ranging from 3 to 4 feet. Wheat crops destroyed and windows broken by hail. Estimated 60 mph winds.
June 2022HailNonpareil-Window and fence damage.
August 2021HailNonpareil-Golf ball sized hail reported 15 miles west of Hemingford.
August 2021HailNonpareil-Spotter reported ping pong ball sized hail 9 miles south-southwest of Marsland.
August 2021HailNonpareil-Spotter measured tennis ball sized hail 20 miles west northwest of Alliance.
June 2015HailNonpareil-Quarter size hail was observed 23 miles south of Chadron.
May 2015HailNonpareil-Quarter size hail was reported about six miles south-southwest of Box Butte Reservoir Campground.
September 2013HailNonpareil-Dime to quarter size hail was reported west of Hemingford.
May 2013Tornado (EF0)Nonpareil-The supercell thunderstorm that spawned the EF0 tornado in southern Sioux County moved east into southwest Box Butte County. Another EF0 tornado developed about 14 miles northeast of Lake Alice and touched down a few times in open country before dissipating. No damage was reported.
May 2021HailNonpareil-no account filed
July 2021HailNonpareil-no account filed
July 2021HailNonpareil-no account filed
July 2021HailNonpareil-no account filed
July 2019HailNonpareil-no account filed
September 2019HailNonpareil-no account filed
June 2018HailNonpareil-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Box Butte 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
Hemingford6.7 miles9
Berea15.2 miles9
Alliance24.8 miles11
Letan27.8 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 NonpareilAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18354197The 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 837767. 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.