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Orchard, Nebraska

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Garfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68764. The Survey maps it on the Orchard quadrangle. 363 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,942 feet above sea level.

Orchard within Antelope County

Population over time

2 figures

Orchard fell from 379 to 363 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
2010379
2020363-16 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

9 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Orchard between 2005 and 2018, burning about 123 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
12 September 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
30 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined72 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
15 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
29 April 2018Debris and open burning20 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
29 April 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
8 November 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
4 November 2007Equipment and vehicle use25 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
27 November 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Antelope County

Storms near this place

28 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Orchard in 28 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 18 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 1 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
June 1996HailOrchard$150,000no account filed
June 1996Tornado (F0)Orchard$25,000no account filed
May 1999Tornado (F0)Orchard$10,000Metal farm grain bins were destroyed.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindOrchard$1,000no account filed
July 2022Thunderstorm WindOrchard-NWS Employee reported widespread tree damage northwest of Clearwater.
March 2019FloodOrchard-This is for flooding along the Elkhorn River. The river gage at Neligh, operated by the Nebraska DNR, peaked at 11.4 feet at noon on March 14th. Minor flood stage is 11 feet. Gage data is preliminary.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindOrchard-Tree and power lines reported down in Orchard.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindOrchard-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph knocked the power out in Orchard and flipped a center pivot 3 miles east of town.
June 2008HailOrchard-Hail up to nickel-size covered the ground white from northwest of Orchard through south of town.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindOrchard-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 to 70 mph knocked over or split several large trees and downed numerous tree limbs in the Orchard area. A few power lines were also downed and some roof damage was noted. West of town two grain bins were blown 500 feet battered and crumpled.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindOrchard-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 70 mph uprooted a few trees and broke windows out of a house on a farmstead northeast of Orchard.
June 2003Tornado (F0)Orchard-A tornado destroyed a small farm outbuilding 4 miles north of Orchard. The tornado caused other minor outbuilding and tree damage along a path from just southwest of Orchard to around 4 miles north of town.
July 2002HailOrchard-A thunderstorm dropped nickel size hail in addition to wind gusts around 50 mph which downed a few tree limbs.
April 2000HailOrchard-Hail up to nickel size covered the ground 3 inches deep.
August 1998HailOrchard-Hail covered the ground.
August 2015HailOrchard-no account filed
June 2014HailOrchard-no account filed
June 2010HailOrchard-no account filed
June 2008HailOrchard-no account filed
August 2007HailOrchard-no account filed
June 2005HailOrchard-no account filed
August 2005HailOrchard-no account filed
September 2005HailOrchard-no account filed
May 2003HailOrchard-no account filed
May 2003HailOrchard-no account filed
June 2003HailOrchard-no account filed
July 2001HailOrchard-no account filed
May 1996HailOrchard-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Antelope 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
Royal6.2 miles10
Clearwater11.8 miles10
Brunswick14.4 miles9
Neligh18.2 miles10
Oakdale23.4 miles9
Elgin25.7 miles10

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 OrchardAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3287822The 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 831887. 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.