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North Loup, Nebraska

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1985. It stands in North Loup Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68859. The Survey maps it on the North Loup quadrangle. 254 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,962 feet above sea level.

North Loup within Valley County

On record in North Loup

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

Population over time

2 figures

North Loup fell from 297 to 254 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
2010297
2020254-43 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

9 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of North Loup between 2003 and 2020, burning about 540 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 burning4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Natural1

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
28 July 2005Natural7.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
15 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
8 April 2018Debris and open burning500 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
21 April 2009Debris and open burning25 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
25 March 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
25 February 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
23 February 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
3 November 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Valley County

Storms near this place

33 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Loup in 33 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 20 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 flash flood. 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
March 2019FloodNorth Loup$2,000,000no account filed
March 2019Flash FloodNorth Loup$2,000,000no account filed
July 2014HailNorth Loup$1,000,000Hail up to the size of ping pong balls caused extensive crop damage in the area.
June 2010Flash FloodNorth Loup$1,000,000no account filed
June 2024Thunderstorm WindNorth Loup$500,000Wind gusts estimated to be near 80 MPH caused widespread damage in eastern Valley and western Greeley counties. Along with tree damage, a handful of power poles were snapped, and several irrigation pivots were flipped. A number of grain bins and outbuildings were damaged, and a home north of North Loup suffered siding damage and also had a couple of trailers shifted from their parked spots.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindNorth Loup$250,000Wind gusts were estimated at 80 MPH, causing tree damage across town and crop damage around the area. Two larger tree limbs were knocked down in town and fell onto vehicles.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindNorth Loup$150,000A two story barn was heavily damaged, with one wall collapsed, by wind gusts estimated to be approaching 100 MPH. A nearby home suffered minor siding damage. A storage shed was moved from its foundation, being shoved up next to a power pole. Multiple grain bins also were damaged in the area, including one which was ripped from its foundation.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindNorth Loup$75,000Large tree limbs and branches were reported down around the community of North Loup.
May 2012HailNorth Loup$75,000no account filed
June 2011Tornado (EF1)North Loup$50,000This tornado touched down near the Davis Creek Reservoir, or approximately 5 miles south of North Loup, and lifted approximately 4 miles south of North Loup. At the Davis Creek Campground, it was estimated that 60 percent of the trees were damaged, and 2 restroom facilities suffered roof damage. The maximum wind speed of this tornado was estimated to be 90 MPH.
June 1997HailNorth Loup$30,000no account filed
June 2014HailNorth Loup$25,000Hail ranged from pennies to half dollars in size.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindNorth Loup$25,000Wind gusts estimated at 60 MPH were accompanied by walnut size hail. Some minor tree damage was reported.
July 2013HailNorth Loup$15,000no account filed
June 2020HailNorth Loup$10,000Most hail stones were smaller than quarters, but a few were as large as golf ball size.
May 1999HailNorth Loup$5,000no account filed
February 2012Thunderstorm WindNorth Loup$1,000Wind gusts estimated at 70 mph resulted in moved irrigation pipe and a feed grinder being overturned.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindNorth Loup-Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH.
June 2018Heavy RainNorth Loup-A storm total rainfall amount of 3.24 inches occurred six miles west-northwest of North Loup.
April 2003Tornado (F0)North Loup-A brief tornado was seen by a spotter just north to town.
August 2020HailNorth Loup-no account filed
June 2020HailNorth Loup-no account filed
August 2014HailNorth Loup-no account filed
June 2011HailNorth Loup-no account filed
June 2011HailNorth Loup-no account filed
June 2010HailNorth Loup-no account filed
June 2010HailNorth Loup-no account filed
June 2009HailNorth Loup-no account filed
June 2009HailNorth Loup-no account filed
June 2008HailNorth Loup-no account filed
August 2002HailNorth Loup-no account filed
August 1996HailNorth Loup-no account filed
July 1994HailNorth Loup-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Valley 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
Olean4.9 miles11
Sumter6.5 miles11
Spelts8.0 miles11
Saunders8.8 miles11
Ord11.0 miles11
Vinton (historical)11.4 miles11
Elyria17.8 miles10
Arcadia19.4 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 North LoupAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2387130The 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 831708. 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.