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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.

Nora within Nuckolls County

Population over time

2 figures

Nora 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.

YearPeople Change
201021
2020210 (0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

8 since 2010

Regional 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 burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Natural1
Smoking1

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
23 September 2013Natural1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
27 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
7 June 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
18 March 2011Debris and open burning20 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
16 March 2015Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
8 November 2020Smoking660 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
31 October 2020Debris and open burning7.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
20 October 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nuckolls County

Storms near this place

12 since 2004

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2023HailNora$75,000no account filed
July 2023HailNora$50,000no account filed
May 2004Tornado (F0)Nora$1,000A brief tornado was reported by the local power company. A couple of power poles were snapped.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindNora-A wind gust of 59 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located three miles west-southwest of Oak.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindNora-Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH by emergency management located four miles southwest of Nora.
July 2017Heavy RainNora-A storm total rainfall amount of 4.30 inches was measured.
July 2017Heavy RainNora-A storm total rainfall amount of 3.34 inches was measured.
October 2013Heavy RainNora-A rainfall total of 3.26 inches occurred.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindNora-Winds estimated at 60 mph.
July 2023HailNora-no account filed
July 2016HailNora-no account filed
May 2008HailNora-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nuckolls 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
Cadams4.5 miles12
Ruskin5.5 miles12
Nelson5.9 miles11
Smyrna5.9 miles12
Oak6.3 miles12
Oak Mill6.7 miles12
Angus8.3 miles12
Abdal (historical)8.6 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 NoraAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2774868The 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.