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Phillips, Nebraska

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Precinct 5. It lies in ZIP code area 68865. The Survey maps it on the Phillips quadrangle. 320 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,893 feet above sea level.

Phillips within Hamilton County

Population over time

2 figures

Phillips grew from 287 to 320 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
2010287
2020320+33 (+11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

67 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Phillips between 2004 and 2020, burning about 588 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 burning27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use9
Railroad operations and maintenance9
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1
Natural1

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
9 September 2012Recreation and ceremony15 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
18 August 2012Debris and open burning3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
10 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
25 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hamilton County

Storms near this place

38 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Phillips in 38 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 22 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2009HailPhillips$150,000no account filed
April 2005HailPhillips$100,000no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindPhillips$100,000no account filed
July 2022HailPhillips$50,000Quarter to golf ball size hail was reported.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindPhillips$50,000Wind gusts were estimated to be at around 70 MPH based on surrounding observations. Power outages were reported in Phillips.
May 2019FloodPhillips$50,000Heavy rainfall resulted in widespread flooding across Hamilton County. Lincoln Creek, the Big Blue and West Fork of the Big Blue were all out of their banks. Numerous rural roads and bridges were under water.
June 2008Flash FloodPhillips$50,000Marquette had 7 inches of rain and many other locations across northern Hamilton County saw between 3 and 6 inches of rain that resulted in widespread flash flooding especially along Lincoln Creek and the Big Blue River.
May 2008Flash FloodPhillips$50,000Thunderstorms rolled across most of Hamilton County during the evening and nighttime hours and dumped several inches of rain. This caused roads and small creeks to quickly flood.
May 2002HailPhillips$50,000no account filed
May 2019HailPhillips$25,000no account filed
April 2013HailPhillips$25,000no account filed
May 2012HailPhillips$25,000no account filed
June 2009HailPhillips$10,000Wind gusts estimated at 50 to 60 mph were also reported.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindPhillips-Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindPhillips-Wind gusts estimated to be near 80 MPH resulted in significant damage to a farm south-southwest of Phillips. Three hog barns and two pole barns were damaged or destroyed. Metal pieces were blown into trees and also spread out about a quarter of a mile. Some tree damage occurred at a nearby residence. An irrigation pivot was also overturned.
September 2015Thunderstorm WindPhillips-Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH.
August 2014HailPhillips-This report was received via Facebook.
April 2014HailPhillips-Quarter size hail was reported near mile marker 320 on Interstate 80.
April 2013HailPhillips-Dime size hail occurred at the intersecton of Highway 34 and Highway 2.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindPhillips-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 MPH.
June 2009Tornado (EF0)Phillips-A brief tornado touched down southwest of Phillips, with no damage reported.
July 1995HailPhillips-Severe thunderstorms moved southeast across central Nebraska. Hardest hit were Valley and Sherman Counties where wind gusts to 65 mph and three-quarters inch hail inflicted tree and roof damage. The storms also damaged crops, finishing off some fields which were damaged two days earlier. In Marquette, a man suffered minor injuries when he was struck by lightning as he was closing his garage door.
May 1994Tornado (F0)Phillips-A small tornado briefly touched down near Phillips.
May 2024HailPhillips-no account filed
July 2024HailPhillips-no account filed
July 2023HailPhillips-no account filed
May 2022HailPhillips-no account filed
April 2016HailPhillips-no account filed
April 2016HailPhillips-no account filed
May 2016HailPhillips-no account filed
September 2015HailPhillips-no account filed
September 2013FloodPhillips-no account filed
July 2009HailPhillips-no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindPhillips-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindPhillips-no account filed
April 2001HailPhillips-no account filed
August 1999Thunderstorm WindPhillips-no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindPhillips-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hamilton 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
Murphy5.6 miles12
Giltner9.1 miles12
Aurora11.4 miles13
Marquette13.1 miles14
Kronborg16.3 miles14
Overland17.4 miles14
Hampton17.5 miles15
Stockham19.2 miles15

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 PhillipsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q928106The 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 832075. 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.