Petersburg, Nebraska
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Oakland precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68652. The Survey maps it on the Petersburg quadrangle. 332 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,896 feet above sea level.
On record in Petersburg
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
Petersburg Jaillisted 2005
Population over time
2 figuresPetersburg fell from 333 to 332 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 | 333 | |
| 2020 | 332 | -1 (-0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 10 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.
- 1955 USGS Broken Bow quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1956 USGS Broken Bow quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Petersburg quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Ord quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Petersburg between 2006 and 2019, burning about 30 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 |
|---|---|
| Smoking | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 July 2007 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 1 July 2007 | Smoking | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 21 June 2006 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 30 October 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 15 October 2010 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
48 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Petersburg in 48 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 28 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1998 | Lightning | Petersburg | $70,000 | Lightning struck a home causing a fire. |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Petersburg | $2,000 | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Petersburg | $1,000 | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at around 60 mph broke a large tree which crushed a small metal garage when it fell east of Petersburg. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Petersburg | - | Trained spotter reported quarter size hail. |
| June 2022 | Tornado (EFU) | Petersburg | - | Trained spotter reported watching a tornado quickly develop, damaging a center pivot irrigation system. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Petersburg | - | Law enforcement reported golf ball size hail which shattered a police vehicle windshield and a side window. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Petersburg | - | Trained spotter reported 1.25 inch hail. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Petersburg | - | Trained spotter reported significant tree and crop damage from golf ball sized hail. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Petersburg | - | Trained spotter reported medium to large branches down throughout town. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Petersburg | - | A two foot diameter ash tree was blown down and a lot of small and large tree limbs blown down in Petersburg. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Petersburg | - | Local local enforcement reported a barn destroyed. |
| April 2012 | Hail | Petersburg | - | An elevated super-cell thunderstorm dropped hail up to around baseball-size from a few miles west of Petersburg to about 13 miles northeast of town. The hail was accompanied by wind gusts of 40 to 50 mph which caused extensive window, siding and vehicle damage. Trees were also damaged in the area. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Petersburg | - | A thunderstorm wind gust estimated at 60 mph blew a 200 lb tank across a gas station parking lot. The winds were accompanied by half dollar-size hail. |
| August 2011 | Hail | Petersburg | - | The hail was accompanied by wind gusts estimated at 60 mph. |
| September 2010 | Hail | Petersburg | - | Golf ball-size hail was reported by law enforcement in the Petersburg area. |
| May 2007 | Tornado (EF0) | Petersburg | - | A brief touchdown of a tornado crossed a county road 4 miles west of Loretto or about 7 miles southwest of Petersburg. The tornado knocked down a line of trees before lifting. |
| September 2006 | Hail | Petersburg | - | The hail covered the ground, mostly pea-size but a few the size of dimes and nickels. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Petersburg | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph east of Petersburg. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Petersburg | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph overturned 9 center irrigation pivots and destroyed several grain bins north of Petersburg. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Petersburg | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts over 60 mph downed trees and power lines near Petersburg. |
| May 2000 | Flash Flood | Petersburg | - | Heavy rain of 2 to 3 inches caused water to overflow onto highway 14 near Petersburg. |
| July 2000 | Flash Flood | Petersburg | - | Heavy rain caused a lot of lowland flooding around the Petersburg area. Many roads were flooded, including highway 32 east of town. |
| June 1999 | Flash Flood | Petersburg | - | Water over highway 32 east of town. |
| June 1998 | Hail | Petersburg | - | Hail caused some crop damage in combination with strong winds. |
| June 1998 | Flash Flood | Petersburg | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rains which forced creeks out of their banks. |
| June 1998 | Hail | Petersburg | - | Hail shredded crops. |
| June 1998 | Flash Flood | Petersburg | - | Heavy rains caused a rapid rise along Shell Creek causing flooding of agricultural lowlands. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Petersburg | - | Center pivots overturned in Petersburg and Loretto areas |
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Petersburg | - | Strong winds blew a tractor semi-trailer truck off the road west of Petersburg. |
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Petersburg | - | Several outbuildings were damaged by strong winds. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Petersburg | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Petersburg | - | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Hail | Petersburg | - | no account filed |
| August 2010 | Hail | Petersburg | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Petersburg | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Petersburg | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Petersburg | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Petersburg | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Petersburg | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Petersburg | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Petersburg | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Petersburg | - | no account filed |
| September 2004 | Hail | Petersburg | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Petersburg | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Petersburg | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Petersburg | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Petersburg | - | no account filed |
| September 1997 | Hail | Petersburg | - | 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.
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 Petersburg | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q927364 | 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 832053. 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.



