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.
Population over time
2 figuresOrchard 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 379 | |
| 2020 | 363 | -16 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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 O'Neill quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS O'Neill quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Orchard quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1969 USGS O'Neill quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS O'Neill quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS O'Neill quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
9 since 2005Regional 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 burning | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 September 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 30 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 72 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 15 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 29 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 29 April 2007 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 8 November 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 4 November 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 25 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 27 November 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
28 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1996 | Hail | Orchard | $150,000 | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Tornado (F0) | Orchard | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Orchard | $10,000 | Metal farm grain bins were destroyed. |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Orchard | $1,000 | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Orchard | - | NWS Employee reported widespread tree damage northwest of Clearwater. |
| March 2019 | Flood | Orchard | - | 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 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Orchard | - | Tree and power lines reported down in Orchard. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Orchard | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph knocked the power out in Orchard and flipped a center pivot 3 miles east of town. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Orchard | - | Hail up to nickel-size covered the ground white from northwest of Orchard through south of town. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Orchard | - | 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 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Orchard | - | 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 2003 | Tornado (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 2002 | Hail | Orchard | - | A thunderstorm dropped nickel size hail in addition to wind gusts around 50 mph which downed a few tree limbs. |
| April 2000 | Hail | Orchard | - | Hail up to nickel size covered the ground 3 inches deep. |
| August 1998 | Hail | Orchard | - | Hail covered the ground. |
| August 2015 | Hail | Orchard | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Orchard | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Orchard | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Orchard | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Orchard | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Orchard | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Orchard | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Orchard | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Orchard | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Orchard | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Orchard | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Orchard | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Orchard | - | 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.
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 Orchard | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3287822 | 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 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.





