Nora, Nebraska
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Nelson precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68961. The Survey maps it on the Oak quadrangle. 21 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,752 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresNora grew from 21 to 21 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 | 21 | |
| 2020 | 21 | 0 (0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 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.
- 1898 USGS Hebron quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Oak quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Fairbury quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
8 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Nora between 2010 and 2020, burning about 698 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2013 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 27 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 June 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 18 March 2011 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 16 March 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 8 November 2020 | Smoking | 660 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 31 October 2020 | Debris and open burning | 7.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 20 October 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
12 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nora in 12 storm reports between 2004 and 2024: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 heavy rain, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2023 | Hail | Nora | $75,000 | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Hail | Nora | $50,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Nora | $1,000 | A brief tornado was reported by the local power company. A couple of power poles were snapped. |
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nora | - | A wind gust of 59 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located three miles west-southwest of Oak. |
| September 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nora | - | Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH by emergency management located four miles southwest of Nora. |
| July 2017 | Heavy Rain | Nora | - | A storm total rainfall amount of 4.30 inches was measured. |
| July 2017 | Heavy Rain | Nora | - | A storm total rainfall amount of 3.34 inches was measured. |
| October 2013 | Heavy Rain | Nora | - | A rainfall total of 3.26 inches occurred. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nora | - | Winds estimated at 60 mph. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Nora | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Nora | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Nora | - | 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 Nora | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2774868 | 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 831641. 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.





