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Norman, Nebraska

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1985. It stands in District 1. It lies in ZIP code area 68959. The Survey maps it on the Norman quadrangle. 32 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,083 feet above sea level.

Norman within Kearney County

Population over time

2 figures

Norman fell from 43 to 32 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
201043
202032-11 (-26%)

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.

Storms near this place

35 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Norman in 35 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 24 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 2 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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 2014Thunderstorm WindNorman$1,000,000no account filed
July 2024Tornado (EF1)Norman$750,000A small tornado touched down near a farmstead northwest of Norman and caused large tree limbs to fall onto a house. The tornado continued southeast where it snapped four power poles along K Road, overturned pivots, and carried a small brain bin over 500 yards from its original location. The tornado continued southeast and produced a few locations of minor damage before lifting prior to crossing 42 Road southeast of Norman. The peak wind gust was estimated to be 100 MPH.
December 2016Thunderstorm WindNorman$225,000An old outbuilding had collapsed walls. Nine sections of center pivot were blown over and tin from outbuildings was wrapped around trees.
June 2024HailNorman$200,000no account filed
May 2018Thunderstorm WindNorman$125,000no account filed
December 2016Thunderstorm WindNorman$100,000Large tree limbs were blown down, along with some overturned pivots.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindNorman$100,000no account filed
May 2018Thunderstorm WindNorman$50,000no account filed
May 2016Thunderstorm WindNorman$50,000no account filed
March 2006HailNorman$30,000no account filed
July 1997HailNorman$25,000no account filed
December 2016Tornado (EF0)Norman$5,000This tornado briefly touched down in rural portions of Kearney County southeast of Minden. Minor damaged occurred at a farmstead. The maximum wind speed was estimated to be 75 MPH.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindNorman-A wind gust o63 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located two miles north-northeast of Norman.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindNorman-A wind gust of 64 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located two miles north-northeast of Norman.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindNorman-A wind gust of 63 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located two miles north-northeast of Norman.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindNorman-A wind gust of 79 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located two miles north-northeast of Norman.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindNorman-A wind gust of 64 MPH was recorded by a mesonet station located 2 miles north-northeast of Norman.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindNorman-Wind gusts estimated to be near 70 MPH caused damage approximately 3 miles northeast of Upland. Extensive tree damage occurred, including a large tree branch falling through the roof of a house and branches pushed deep into the ground. A grain bin was also severely damaged.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindNorman-A wind gust of 75 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located 1 mile north-northeast of Norman.
September 2018Heavy RainNorman-A 24 hour rainfall total of 4.80 inches was reported, with the brunt of the rain falling between 5 PM CDT on the 1st and 4 AM CDT on the 2nd.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindNorman-Damage reports included 3 overturned pivots and 12 power poles knocked down.
May 2023HailNorman-no account filed
July 2020HailNorman-no account filed
June 2018Thunderstorm WindNorman-no account filed
September 2018Thunderstorm WindNorman-no account filed
May 2017Thunderstorm WindNorman-no account filed
May 2017Thunderstorm WindNorman-no account filed
June 2016Thunderstorm WindNorman-no account filed
August 2014Thunderstorm WindNorman-no account filed
May 2013Thunderstorm WindNorman-no account filed
April 2013Thunderstorm WindNorman-no account filed
June 2009HailNorman-no account filed
May 2005HailNorman-no account filed
May 2004HailNorman-no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindNorman-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kearney 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
Koller5.4 miles14
Heartwell6.3 miles14
Minden8.3 miles12
Lowell11.9 miles16
Valley City (historical)12.2 miles16
Newark14.4 miles16
Keene15.0 miles13
Kearney City (historical)17.5 miles20

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 NormanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2346493The 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 831648. 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.

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.