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.
Population over time
2 figuresObert 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 23 | |
| 2020 | 22 | -1 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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.
- 1955 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Obert quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Yankton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
12 since 2008Regional 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 burning | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 May 2014 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 29 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 21 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 21 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 21 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 19 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 19 April 2008 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 18 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 24 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Obert | - | Emergency manager reported trees down on Highway 12 west of Obert. |
| August 2011 | Hail | Obert | - | 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 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Obert | - | 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 2003 | Hail | Obert | - | Damage to cars due to golfball size hail was reported in town. |
| June 2003 | Tornado (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 2003 | Hail | Obert | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Obert | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Obert | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint James | 7.3 miles | 9 | |
| Wynot | 8.3 miles | 9 | |
| Bow Valley Mills | 8.9 miles | 10 | |
| Bow Valley | 11.9 miles | 9 | |
| Hartington | 13.4 miles | 9 | |
| Saint Helena | 14.3 miles | 10 | |
| Coleridge | 15.7 miles | 9 | |
| Fordyce | 17.7 miles | 9 |
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 Obert | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2518076 | 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 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.




