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Pauline, Nebraska

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Little Blue Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68941. The Survey maps it on the Pauline quadrangle. It stands 1,768 feet above sea level.

Pauline within Adams County

On record in Pauline

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

8 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Pauline between 2008 and 2020, burning about 351 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 burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony1

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
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
3 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
1 April 2020Debris and open burning187 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
30 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
15 March 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
7 November 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
3 November 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
16 January 2014Recreation and ceremony127 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Storms near this place

36 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pauline in 36 storm reports between 2003 and 2024: 19 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 5 heavy rain, 1 tornado. 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
May 2004Tornado (F0)Pauline$500,000A tornado sat down south of Pauline and traveled northeast. It crossed into Clay county to the east of Pauline.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindPauline$250,000Wind gusts estimated to be between 60 and 65 MPH lasted for approximately 20 minutes.
May 2018HailPauline$150,000no account filed
May 2018Thunderstorm WindPauline$100,000Wind gusts estimated to be near 70 MPH knocked over an irrigation pivot section.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindPauline$25,000Wind gusts estimated to be near 60 MPH downed a few tree limbs up to 5 inches in diameter.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindPauline$25,000Wind gusts were estimated at 65 MPH. Tree limbs up to 8 to 10 inches in diameter were knocked down.
June 2008HailPauline$25,000Quarter to half dollar size hail fell with major crop damage reported in the area.
September 2018FloodPauline$20,000Heavy rain across the area, ranging anywhere from 3 to 6 inches, resulted in a few rural roads being washed out in the Holstein area. Flooding was also reported in the Crystal Lake State Recreation Area, and while the park was not closed, campers were encouraged to leave.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindPauline$4,000Wind gusts estimated to be near 60 MPH resulted in minor tree damage.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindPauline-A wind gust of 62 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located three miles west of Glenvil.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindPauline-Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH.
October 2023Thunderstorm WindPauline-Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH.
October 2023Thunderstorm WindPauline-Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH.
August 2023HailPauline-Report from an NeRain observer located six miles east-northeast of Blue Hill.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindPauline-A small grain bin was blown between the house and a workshop. Damage was reported to a hydrant and fencing.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindPauline-Wind gusts were estimated to be near 65 MPH.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindPauline-Wind gusts were estimated to be near 65 MPH.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindPauline-Estimated 55 to 60 mph wind gusts occurred. Winds were strong for about 5 to 7 minutes.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindPauline-Wind gusts were estimated to be near 65 MPH.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindPauline-A NWS Hastings employee estimated wind gusts to be near 60 MPH.
September 2018Heavy RainPauline-A multi-day rainfall total of 5.73 was reported 7 miles southwest of Glenvil.
July 2017Heavy RainPauline-A storm total rainfall amount of 3.10 inches was measured.
August 2016Heavy RainPauline-Storm-total rainfall of 3.10 inches...all of which fell between 9:30 p.m. and 5 a.m. CDT.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindPauline-Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH by an off-duty NWS employee.
October 2013Heavy RainPauline-A rainfall total of 3.12 inches occurred.
August 2010Heavy RainPauline-Storm total rainfall amount was 5.1 inches.
April 2023HailPauline-no account filed
May 2022HailPauline-no account filed
June 2020HailPauline-no account filed
June 2019HailPauline-no account filed
May 2019HailPauline-no account filed
May 2019HailPauline-no account filed
April 2019HailPauline-no account filed
May 2018Thunderstorm WindPauline-no account filed
May 2018Thunderstorm WindPauline-no account filed
May 2003Thunderstorm WindPauline-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Adams 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
Ayr5.2 miles11
Ayr Junction5.4 miles11
Brickton (historical)6.1 miles11
Muriel6.5 miles13
Level8.7 miles13
Good Samaritan Village11.3 miles13
Kingswood Plaza11.8 miles13
Roseland11.9 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 PaulineAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16896527The 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 832000. 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.