Pickrell, Nebraska
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Holt Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68422. It stands on Possum Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pickrell quadrangle. 186 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,368 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresPickrell fell from 199 to 186 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 | 199 | |
| 2020 | 186 | -13 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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 Lincoln quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Pickrell quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Beatrice quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
21 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Pickrell between 2007 and 2017, burning about 266 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 23 July 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 1 July 2016 | Fireworks | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 29 May 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 26 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 18 April 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 11 April 2009 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 8 March 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Pickrell: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lentz Pit & Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
18 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pickrell in 18 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 9 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2008 | Tornado (EF2) | Pickrell | $750,000 | A bow echo that moved across the Beatrice area spun up an EF2 tornado just north of town while south through east of town a narrow path of straight line wind damage occurred. The tornado touched down around 2 miles east of Highway 77 near Hackberry Road where it severely damaged two houses. Farm outbuildings were also severely damaged or destroyed. The tornado was rated an EF2 at that location. From there the tornado damaged a church on Elm Road with trees also snapped or uprooted in both areas as well. The tornado continued east northeast causing substantial tree and outbuilding damage to 10 more farmsteads, along with some house damage. Most of the damage occurred along Hackberry Road with the damage path around 1/4 mile wide. As the tornado worked its way east northeast toward Johnson county...the damage gradually weakened and the path narrowed. The tornado was estimated to have lifted a little northeast of Filley. Emergency management estimated that the tornado and the wind damage south through east of town caused at least a million dollars worth of damage. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pickrell | $200,000 | High winds caused damage to several buildings, irrigation systems, and trees. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pickrell | - | Public reported a 12 to 14 inch diameter tree blown over and a fence. |
| April 2022 | Flash Flood | Pickrell | - | Storm chaser reported flash flooding between Pickrell and Adams. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pickrell | - | Public reported large 1 to 2 foot diameter limbs blown down. Also noted corn was blown down. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pickrell | - | Emergency manger reported widespread crop damage and some tree damage. Damage pattern in corn indicates straight-line winds. |
| April 2019 | Hail | Pickrell | - | The public reported 1.5 hail. |
| April 2019 | Hail | Pickrell | - | The public reported nickel size hail. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Pickrell | - | Hail in Pickrell. |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pickrell | - | This same thunderstorm also produced Golfball size hail. |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pickrell | - | Emergency management estimated a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Pickrell | - | no account filed |
| September 2015 | Hail | Pickrell | - | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Hail | Pickrell | - | no account filed |
| September 2013 | Hail | Pickrell | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Pickrell | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Pickrell | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Funnel Cloud | Pickrell | - | 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 Pickrell | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2210026 | 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 832089. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, 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.




