BlockPalmer, Nebraska
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Loup Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68864. The Survey maps it on the Palmer quadrangle. 439 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,801 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresPalmer fell from 472 to 439 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 | 472 | |
| 2020 | 439 | -33 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 13 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.
- 1899 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Broken Bow quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1956 USGS Broken Bow quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
25 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Palmer in 25 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 16 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 1 flash 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2019 | Flood | Palmer | $2,000,000 | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Flash Flood | Palmer | $200,000 | Thunderstorms rolled across Merrick County during the evening and nighttime hours and dumped several inches of rain. This caused roads and small creeks to quickly flood. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Palmer | $150,000 | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Palmer | $100,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Palmer | $80,000 | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Palmer | $75,000 | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Palmer | $60,000 | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Palmer | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Palmer | $50,000 | no account filed |
| September 1997 | Hail | Palmer | $30,000 | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Tornado (EF1) | Palmer | $25,000 | This EF1 rated tornado started in extreme eastern Howard County and ended in extreme southern Nance County, with most of its time spent in Merrick County north-northeast of Palmer. There were several spots of tree damage along its roughly 7 mile path. The most significant damage was to an outbuilding and large cottonwood trees northeast of Palmer. The estimated peak wind speed of 95 MPH was estimated based upon the damage at this particular farmstead. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Palmer | $25,000 | Golf ball size hail reported on Arthur Road 2 miles west of Palmer. |
| April 2005 | Hail | Palmer | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Palmer | $25,000 | no account filed |
| August 2017 | Heavy Rain | Palmer | - | A 24-hour precipitation amount of 3.98 inches was recorded 2 miles north of Palmer. |
| September 2016 | Heavy Rain | Palmer | - | Rainfall total from the past 24 hours was 3.49 inches. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Palmer | - | Wind gusts estimated at 60 MPH caused tree damage in Palmer. |
| August 2017 | Hail | Palmer | - | no account filed |
| August 2017 | Hail | Palmer | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Palmer | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Palmer | - | no account filed |
| October 2000 | Hail | Palmer | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Palmer | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Palmer | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Palmer | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Archer | 7.5 miles | 13 | |
| Worms | 8.6 miles | 13 | |
| Hord | 11.2 miles | 14 | |
| Paddock | 14.2 miles | 14 | |
| Chapman | 14.6 miles | 13 | |
| Central City | 15.4 miles | 14 | |
| Heber | 16.8 miles | 14 | |
| Riverside Park | 17.4 miles | 14 |
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 Palmer | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q919523 | 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 831956. 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.
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.