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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.

Pickrell within Gage County

Population over time

2 figures

Pickrell 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.

YearPeople Change
2010199
2020186-13 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

21 since 2007

Regional 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/undetermined9
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Fireworks2
Smoking1

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
22 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
23 July 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
1 July 2016Fireworksunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
29 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
26 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
18 April 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
11 April 2009Debris and open burning5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
8 March 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gage County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lentz Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Gage County

Storms near this place

18 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2008Tornado (EF2)Pickrell$750,000A 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 1998Thunderstorm WindPickrell$200,000High winds caused damage to several buildings, irrigation systems, and trees.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindPickrell-Public reported a 12 to 14 inch diameter tree blown over and a fence.
April 2022Flash FloodPickrell-Storm chaser reported flash flooding between Pickrell and Adams.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindPickrell-Public reported large 1 to 2 foot diameter limbs blown down. Also noted corn was blown down.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindPickrell-Emergency manger reported widespread crop damage and some tree damage. Damage pattern in corn indicates straight-line winds.
April 2019HailPickrell-The public reported 1.5 hail.
April 2019HailPickrell-The public reported nickel size hail.
May 2019HailPickrell-Hail in Pickrell.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindPickrell-This same thunderstorm also produced Golfball size hail.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindPickrell-Emergency management estimated a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
May 2019HailPickrell-no account filed
September 2015HailPickrell-no account filed
July 2014HailPickrell-no account filed
September 2013HailPickrell-no account filed
June 2001HailPickrell-no account filed
August 2001HailPickrell-no account filed
June 1998Funnel CloudPickrell-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gage 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
Glenover6.9 miles11
Hoag6.9 miles11
Beatrice7.7 miles11
Clatonia8.8 miles11
Cortland8.8 miles15
Rockford11.1 miles11
Filley12.1 miles11
Holmesville12.8 miles10

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 PickrellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2210026The 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.