Odell, Nebraska
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Glenwood Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68415. It stands on Ash Creek. The Survey maps it on the Odell quadrangle. 260 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,309 feet above sea level.
On record in Odell
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
First Commercial Banklisted 2007
Population over time
2 figuresOdell fell from 307 to 260 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 | 307 | |
| 2020 | 260 | -47 (-15%) |
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 Lincoln quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Odell quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Beatrice quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
8 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Odell between 2001 and 2011, burning about 44 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 | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 4 March 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 21 March 2001 | Smoking | 1.5 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 20 March 2011 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 18 March 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 14 March 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 26 February 2011 | Debris and open burning | 13 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 20 November 2010 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
36 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Odell in 36 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 26 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2001 | Tornado (F1) | Odell | $60,000 | A tornado tracked from southwest of Odell to just east of town near highway 8. The tornado struck a farmstead heavily damaging 6 outbuildings and a cottonwood and cedar tree shelterbelt. The damage path was reported to a Beatrice newspaper by the Gage county Emergency Manager. |
| April 2024 | Hail | Odell | - | The office received several reports of hail from trained spotters in the Odell area. Hail stones range from quarter to golf ball-sized with this storm. |
| August 2024 | Hail | Odell | - | A trained spotter reported quarter sized hail. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Odell | - | Hail reported in Odell. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Odell | - | Reported in Odell. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Odell | - | A trained spotter estimated winds between 50 and 60 mph. |
| September 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Odell | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 70 mph destroyed a large machine shed which briefly blocked Highway 77. Some tree and power line damage was also reported in the region. |
| August 2010 | Hail | Odell | - | The hail was accompanied by thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 mph that flattened corn in the area. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Odell | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 mph flattened corn in the area and was accompanied by 1 inch hail. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Odell | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at around 60 mph downed 4 inch diameter tree limbs. |
| June 2009 | Tornado (EF0) | Odell | - | A brief tornado touchdown was observed south of Odell and caused no apparent damage. The tornado, or funnel before it touched down, had two vorticies for a while. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Odell | - | Hail up to baseball-size and even a few maybe up to softball-size fell from west of Odell across the south part of town and then to 2 miles south of town. The hail caused house and automobile damage in and around town. Some crop and tree damage was also reported. The hail was driven by winds that were estimated to be at least 50 mph. |
| April 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Odell | - | This tornado tracked out of Washington county Kansas and dissipated shortly after entering Gage county near State Line Road 3 miles south and 1/2 mile west of Odell. The tornado was an fo in Gage county and did some tree damage before it lifted. In Kansas the track of this tornado was 17 miles, the width of damage at its widest was around 1/4 mile and it did f2 damage near Hanover. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Odell | - | This was from the same thunderstorm cell that produced the tornado south of town. The storm also dropped 1.5 inches of rain in less than 1 hour. |
| April 2005 | Hail | Odell | - | Hail up to 1.5 inches in diameter fell in and just west of Odell. |
| April 2005 | Hail | Odell | - | The hail covered Highway 8 and the resultant slick roads caused a few accidents. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Odell | - | Hail up to baseball size was reported in Odell. The hail caused house and car damage in town. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Odell | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at around 60 mph downed large tree limbs near Odell. |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Odell | - | Winds over 60 mph severely damaged old outbuildings near Odell. |
| May 1993 | Hail | Odell | - | Hail began small then increased to golf ball-size. Hail covered the ground in drifts, and drifts were still present the following morning. As the hail ended, a funnel cloud was sighted. |
| May 2015 | Hail | Odell | - | no account filed |
| September 2015 | Hail | Odell | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Odell | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Odell | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Odell | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Odell | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Odell | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Odell | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Odell | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Odell | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Odell | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Odell | - | no account filed |
| September 1998 | Hail | Odell | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Odell | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Odell | - | no account filed |
| May 1993 | Hail | Odell | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Krider | 3.4 miles | 10 | |
| Lanham | 5.0 miles | 10 | |
| Wymore | 9.0 miles | 10 | |
| Blue Springs | 9.8 miles | 10 | |
| Badger | 11.3 miles | 10 | |
| Barneston | 12.0 miles | 10 | |
| Ellis | 12.2 miles | 10 | |
| Holmesville | 13.0 miles | 10 |
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 Odell | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1867195 | 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 831829. 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.




