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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 8 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.
- 1954 USGS McCook quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS McCook quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS McCook quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1973 USGS Palisade quadrangle1:24000
- 1974 USGS Palisade quadrangle1:24000
- 1979 USGS Benkelman quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
9 since 2017Regional 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 burning | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 July 2018 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 26 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 17 July 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 13 July 2018 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 1 June 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 8 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.1 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 25 March 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 16 March 2019 | Debris and open burning | 2.5 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
48 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Palisade | $4,100,000 | Significant 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 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Palisade | $1,000 | Estimated 80 MPH wind gusts were reported in town. These wind gusts split a large hack-berry tree. |
| July 2010 | Hail | Palisade | $1,000 | Several windows in the house and the chicken coop were broken. |
| July 2025 | Hail | Palisade | - | Trained spotter report of nickel sized hail. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Palisade | - | Dime to quarter sized hail reported over a duration of ten minutes. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Palisade | - | Public report and photo via social media of hail around 2 inches in diameter. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Palisade | - | 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 2023 | Hail | Palisade | - | The hail ranged from nickel to quarter in size. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Palisade | - | Wind gust of 55 to 60 MPH and pea size hail occurred. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Palisade | - | Spotter report of nickel sized hail. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Palisade | - | Tree limbs of unknown size were blown down by the wind gusts. This came with hail up to baseball size. |
| July 2020 | Hail | Palisade | - | Citizen reported hail ranging from dime to quarter in size. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Palisade | - | Also came with estimated gusts of 70 MPH that blew down tree limbs. |
| July 2018 | Flash Flood | Palisade | - | 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 2016 | Hail | Palisade | - | Hail report was sent in through social media. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Palisade | - | Estimated time of report from radar. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Palisade | - | Estimated gusts of 60 to 70 MPH. |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Palisade | - | Tree branches down, size unknown. |
| May 2005 | Hail | Palisade | - | South side of town. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Palisade | - | A few 4 to 6 inch diameter tree limbs knocked down. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Palisade | - | 6 inch tree limbs down |
| June 2024 | Hail | Palisade | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Palisade | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Hail | Palisade | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Palisade | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Palisade | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Funnel Cloud | Palisade | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Palisade | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Palisade | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Palisade | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Palisade | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Palisade | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Palisade | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Palisade | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Palisade | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Palisade | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Palisade | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Palisade | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Palisade | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Palisade | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Palisade | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Palisade | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Palisade | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Palisade | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Palisade | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Palisade | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Palisade | - | no account filed |
| October 1998 | Hail | Palisade | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beverly | 8.5 miles | 7 | |
| Trenton | 13.0 miles | 7 | |
| Stratton | 15.2 miles | 7 | |
| Culbertson | 16.5 miles | 7 | |
| Cornell (historical) | 24.2 miles | 7 |
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.





