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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.

Petersburg within Boone County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Petersburg 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.

YearPeople Change
2010333
2020332-1 (-0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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

5 since 2006

Regional 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
Smoking1
Debris and open burning1
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
5 July 2007Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
1 July 2007Smokingunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
21 June 2006Natural4.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
30 October 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
15 October 2010Debris and open burning25 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boone County

Storms near this place

48 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1998LightningPetersburg$70,000Lightning struck a home causing a fire.
August 1996Thunderstorm WindPetersburg$2,000no account filed
August 2011Thunderstorm WindPetersburg$1,000Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at around 60 mph broke a large tree which crushed a small metal garage when it fell east of Petersburg.
June 2022HailPetersburg-Trained spotter reported quarter size hail.
June 2022Tornado (EFU)Petersburg-Trained spotter reported watching a tornado quickly develop, damaging a center pivot irrigation system.
June 2022HailPetersburg-Law enforcement reported golf ball size hail which shattered a police vehicle windshield and a side window.
June 2022HailPetersburg-Trained spotter reported 1.25 inch hail.
June 2022HailPetersburg-Trained spotter reported significant tree and crop damage from golf ball sized hail.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindPetersburg-Trained spotter reported medium to large branches down throughout town.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindPetersburg-A two foot diameter ash tree was blown down and a lot of small and large tree limbs blown down in Petersburg.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindPetersburg-Local local enforcement reported a barn destroyed.
April 2012HailPetersburg-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 2011Thunderstorm WindPetersburg-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 2011HailPetersburg-The hail was accompanied by wind gusts estimated at 60 mph.
September 2010HailPetersburg-Golf ball-size hail was reported by law enforcement in the Petersburg area.
May 2007Tornado (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 2006HailPetersburg-The hail covered the ground, mostly pea-size but a few the size of dimes and nickels.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindPetersburg-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph east of Petersburg.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindPetersburg-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph overturned 9 center irrigation pivots and destroyed several grain bins north of Petersburg.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindPetersburg-Thunderstorm wind gusts over 60 mph downed trees and power lines near Petersburg.
May 2000Flash FloodPetersburg-Heavy rain of 2 to 3 inches caused water to overflow onto highway 14 near Petersburg.
July 2000Flash FloodPetersburg-Heavy rain caused a lot of lowland flooding around the Petersburg area. Many roads were flooded, including highway 32 east of town.
June 1999Flash FloodPetersburg-Water over highway 32 east of town.
June 1998HailPetersburg-Hail caused some crop damage in combination with strong winds.
June 1998Flash FloodPetersburg-Thunderstorms produced heavy rains which forced creeks out of their banks.
June 1998HailPetersburg-Hail shredded crops.
June 1998Flash FloodPetersburg-Heavy rains caused a rapid rise along Shell Creek causing flooding of agricultural lowlands.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindPetersburg-Center pivots overturned in Petersburg and Loretto areas
April 1994Thunderstorm WindPetersburg-Strong winds blew a tractor semi-trailer truck off the road west of Petersburg.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindPetersburg-Several outbuildings were damaged by strong winds.
June 2018HailPetersburg-no account filed
June 2018HailPetersburg-no account filed
July 2014HailPetersburg-no account filed
August 2010HailPetersburg-no account filed
June 2008HailPetersburg-no account filed
July 2007HailPetersburg-no account filed
July 2007HailPetersburg-no account filed
April 2006HailPetersburg-no account filed
March 2006HailPetersburg-no account filed
August 2005HailPetersburg-no account filed
September 2005HailPetersburg-no account filed
May 2004HailPetersburg-no account filed
September 2004HailPetersburg-no account filed
May 2003HailPetersburg-no account filed
June 2002HailPetersburg-no account filed
May 2001HailPetersburg-no account filed
May 2000HailPetersburg-no account filed
September 1997HailPetersburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boone 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
Raeville3.2 miles10
Loretto6.1 miles10
Closter10.3 miles9
Akron11.6 miles11
Albion11.9 miles10
Vorhees17.3 miles9
Boone17.8 miles9
Primrose18.0 miles11

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 PetersburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q927364The 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.