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Obert, Nebraska

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Precinct 7. It lies in ZIP code area 68757. The Survey maps it on the Obert quadrangle. 22 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,342 feet above sea level.

Obert within Cedar County

Population over time

2 figures

Obert fell from 23 to 22 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
201023
202022-1 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

12 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Obert between 2008 and 2020, burning about 53 acres in total. None 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 burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
4 May 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
29 April 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
21 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
21 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
21 April 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
19 April 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
19 April 2008Debris and open burning6.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
18 April 2014Debris and open burning24 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cedar County

Storms near this place

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Obert in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 5 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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 2022Thunderstorm WindObert-Emergency manager reported trees down on Highway 12 west of Obert.
August 2011HailObert-The hail was accompanied by winds estimated at 60 mph which broke all the window on the west side of a house in the area.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindObert-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph were accompanied by hail up to golf ball-size. The wind and hail broke all the west facing windows out of at least 1 house in the area.
June 2003HailObert-Damage to cars due to golfball size hail was reported in town.
June 2003Tornado (F0)Obert-A trained spotter reported a tornado touched down in an open field just south of Obert. The tornado was on the ground for only about 30 seconds.
June 2003HailObert-no account filed
April 2001HailObert-no account filed
July 1998HailObert-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cedar 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
Saint James7.3 miles9
Wynot8.3 miles9
Bow Valley Mills8.9 miles10
Bow Valley11.9 miles9
Hartington13.4 miles9
Saint Helena14.3 miles10
Coleridge15.7 miles9
Fordyce17.7 miles9

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 ObertAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2518076The 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 831824. 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.