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Ord, Nebraska

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Ord Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68862. It stands on Dane Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ord quadrangle. 2,113 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,051 feet above sea level.

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Ord within Valley County

On record in Ord

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Ord grew from 2,112 to 2,113 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
20102,112
20202,113+1 (+0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 11 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

11 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Ord between 2012 and 2020, burning about 171 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
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning3

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
1 August 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
8 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
7 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
18 June 2012Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
8 April 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 March 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
10 March 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
28 February 2015Equipment and vehicle use10 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Valley County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Ord: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ulrich Pit and Plant No. 1 & 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Valley County

Storms near this place

60 of 106 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ord in 106 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 70 hail, 24 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado, 3 heavy rain. 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 1999Tornado (F3)Ord$1,500,000no account filed
July 2014HailOrd$1,000,000Hail ranged in size from quarters to golf balls.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindOrd$1,000,000Damage from wind gusts near and in excess of 80 MPH caused considerable damage to area grain bins and outbuildings, and also overturned pivots. At the Ord Airport, the roof was peeled off of one of the hangars, and one side of the building was ripped away.
June 2000HailOrd$400,000no account filed
July 2000HailOrd$150,000no account filed
August 2019Flash FloodOrd$100,000Measurements and radar estimations showed rainfall totals as high as 5-7 inches within the area area, with the highest totals in northwestern and south central portions of the county, including a CoCoRaHS station with 5.87 six miles west of Elyria and an unofficial public total of 6.25 nine miles west-southwest of Elyria. Emergency management reported that several rural roads were under water, with at least one road southwest of Elyria completely washed out.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindOrd$100,000Wind gusts were estimated to be near 70 MPH. Crop damage was reported in the area.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindOrd$100,000Wind gusts estimated at 60 MPH were accompanied by quarter sized hail.
July 2014HailOrd$100,000no account filed
July 2013HailOrd$100,000no account filed
August 2005HailOrd$100,000no account filed
June 2000HailOrd$100,000no account filed
May 2012HailOrd$75,000no account filed
May 1998HailOrd$60,000no account filed
August 2005HailOrd$50,000no account filed
June 2002Heavy RainOrd$50,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindOrd$50,000no account filed
May 1998HailOrd$45,000no account filed
July 2013Thunderstorm WindOrd$40,000Wind gusts estimated to be near 85 MPH resulted in roof damage at a home, with a 8 to 10 foot section being removed. Some of the insulation was found in trees to the south of the home.
June 1997HailOrd$40,000no account filed
May 2019Thunderstorm WindOrd$35,000Wind gusts estimated to be near 65 MPH resulted in the destruction of a lean-to and caused a tree to fall onto a house.
July 2009HailOrd$30,000no account filed
August 2005Thunderstorm WindOrd$30,000no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindOrd$30,000no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindOrd$30,000no account filed
July 2018Thunderstorm WindOrd$25,000An empty grain bin was blown from the north side of a rural road to the south side.
September 2015HailOrd$25,000no account filed
September 2005HailOrd$25,000no account filed
July 2004HailOrd$25,000no account filed
July 2004HailOrd$25,000no account filed
June 1997HailOrd$25,000no account filed
August 1997HailOrd$25,000no account filed
July 2015LightningOrd$20,000Lightning struck a tree, breaking off a large limb approximately 20 inches in diameter. This limb landed on 2 vehicles, causing significant damage to the cab of a pickup and the passenger compartment of a car.
April 2007LightningOrd$20,000Lightning struck the Evangelical Free Church during a thunderstorm this Monday evening. The lightning strike hit the bathroom vent and went to the basement. It made three holes in the roof and knocked off a big portion of the ceiling. It also knocked nails out of the ceiling and ruined several pieces of electrical equipment. (Source: Ord Quiz Newspaper 4/11/2007).
May 1998HailOrd$20,000no account filed
July 2013HailOrd$15,000no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindOrd$15,000no account filed
July 2006HailOrd$10,000no account filed
June 2003HailOrd$10,000no account filed
June 2002HailOrd$10,000no account filed
July 2002HailOrd$10,000no account filed
May 2022Thunderstorm WindOrd$8,000Wind gusts estimated to be near 65 MPH resulted in damage to a few power lines and poles.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindOrd$5,000Wind gusts estimated to be near 60 MPH resulted in tree branches 3-4 inches in diameter being downed. The town of Ord lost power.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindOrd$5,000no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindOrd$2,000no account filed
June 2011HailOrd$1,000Hail was accompanied by 40 to 50 MPH wind gusts. A window at a local convenience store was broken.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindOrd$1,000Thunderstorm winds snapped a pine tree and broke large limbs on several other trees.
September 2023HailOrd-Quarter to half dollar size hail was reported in Ord.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindOrd-A wind gust of 63 MPH was measured by a Nebraska Mesonet station located two miles northwest of Ord.
June 2018Tornado (EF0)Ord-A storm chaser captured video of a brief touchdown slightly east of Ord. Winds were estimated at 80 mph, and there was no reported damage.
April 2012Tornado (EF0)Ord-A tornado briefly touched down approximately 5 miles southeast of Ord, with no damage reported.
October 2010Heavy RainOrd-Storm total rainfall totaled 3.95 inches.
September 2005Tornado (F0)Ord-A brief tornado was spotted by a trained spotter in open country northwest of Ord.
September 2005Tornado (F0)Ord-Another brief tornado was reported by a storm chaser from an isolated super cell storm in northern Valley county. No damage was noted, as the tornado occurred across open county and for a very short time.
August 2005Heavy RainOrd-3 to 3.5 inches of rain fell in less than 2 hours about 8 miles west of Ord.
July 2023HailOrd-no account filed
May 2022HailOrd-no account filed
June 2021Thunderstorm WindOrd-no account filed
June 2020HailOrd-no account filed
September 2019HailOrd-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Valley 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
Saunders2.3 miles11
Spelts4.2 miles11
Vinton (historical)5.3 miles11
Elyria6.8 miles10
Olean6.9 miles11
Sumter7.4 miles11
Geranium (historical)10.9 miles11
North Loup11.0 miles12

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 OrdAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q955607The 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 831890. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.