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Palisade, Nebraska

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Palisade precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69040. It stands on Bobtail Creek. The Survey maps it on the Palisade quadrangle.

Palisade within Hitchcock County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Palisade between 2017 and 2019, burning about 12 acres in total. 1 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 burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1

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
4 July 2018Debris and open burning3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
26 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
17 July 2018Naturalunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
13 July 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
1 June 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
8 April 2018Debris and open burning1.1 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
25 March 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
16 March 2019Debris and open burning2.5 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hitchcock County

Storms near this place

48 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Palisade in 48 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 36 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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
August 2015Thunderstorm WindPalisade$4,100,000Significant tree, utility pole and structural damage consistent with an intense downburst occurred in the eastern portions of Palisade and adjacent areas south and east of town. One large garage south of town was destroyed, several irrigation pivots were overturned, and grain bins were damaged or destroyed. An estimated 250 utility poles throughout the county were either snapped or pushed down. Power outages continue in the area.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindPalisade$1,000Estimated 80 MPH wind gusts were reported in town. These wind gusts split a large hack-berry tree.
July 2010HailPalisade$1,000Several windows in the house and the chicken coop were broken.
July 2025HailPalisade-Trained spotter report of nickel sized hail.
June 2024HailPalisade-Dime to quarter sized hail reported over a duration of ten minutes.
May 2024HailPalisade-Public report and photo via social media of hail around 2 inches in diameter.
May 2024HailPalisade-Report and photo via social media of hail estimated from photo to be around the size of a tennis ball. Hail was reported to have varied in size.
August 2023HailPalisade-The hail ranged from nickel to quarter in size.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindPalisade-Wind gust of 55 to 60 MPH and pea size hail occurred.
July 2023HailPalisade-Spotter report of nickel sized hail.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindPalisade-Tree limbs of unknown size were blown down by the wind gusts. This came with hail up to baseball size.
July 2020HailPalisade-Citizen reported hail ranging from dime to quarter in size.
June 2020HailPalisade-Also came with estimated gusts of 70 MPH that blew down tree limbs.
July 2018Flash FloodPalisade-Highways 34, 25, and 6 in the Trenton to Palisade and Culbertson triangle were flooded from the prolonged heavy rainfall. The corridor of heavy rainfall, with amounts over three inches, followed the Frenchman Creek basin from Palisade to Culbertson.
May 2016HailPalisade-Hail report was sent in through social media.
May 2013HailPalisade-Estimated time of report from radar.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindPalisade-Estimated gusts of 60 to 70 MPH.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindPalisade-Tree branches down, size unknown.
May 2005HailPalisade-South side of town.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindPalisade-A few 4 to 6 inch diameter tree limbs knocked down.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindPalisade-6 inch tree limbs down
June 2024HailPalisade-no account filed
June 2022HailPalisade-no account filed
June 2020HailPalisade-no account filed
June 2019HailPalisade-no account filed
August 2019HailPalisade-no account filed
August 2019Funnel CloudPalisade-no account filed
June 2013Thunderstorm WindPalisade-no account filed
July 2009HailPalisade-no account filed
August 2007HailPalisade-no account filed
July 2007HailPalisade-no account filed
May 2007HailPalisade-no account filed
May 2007HailPalisade-no account filed
June 2006HailPalisade-no account filed
May 2005HailPalisade-no account filed
May 2005HailPalisade-no account filed
June 2005HailPalisade-no account filed
June 2005HailPalisade-no account filed
June 2005HailPalisade-no account filed
September 2005HailPalisade-no account filed
July 2005HailPalisade-no account filed
July 2005HailPalisade-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindPalisade-no account filed
June 2003HailPalisade-no account filed
June 2003HailPalisade-no account filed
April 2001HailPalisade-no account filed
June 2001HailPalisade-no account filed
October 1998HailPalisade-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hitchcock 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
Beverly8.5 miles7
Trenton13.0 miles7
Stratton15.2 miles7
Culbertson16.5 miles7
Cornell (historical)24.2 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 831954. 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.