Pleasant Dale, Nebraska
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Precinct I. It lies in ZIP code area 68423. It stands on Culver Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pleasant Dale quadrangle. 218 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,319 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresPleasant Dale grew from 205 to 218 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 | 205 | |
| 2020 | 218 | +13 (+6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 15 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.
- 1897 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Pleasant Dale quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
6 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Dale between 2007 and 2020, burning about 94 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 | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 July 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 27 February 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 16 February 2020 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 40 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 21 November 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 15 October 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 27 January 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
21 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pleasant Dale in 21 storm reports between 2001 and 2026: 15 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2026 | Hail | Pleasant Dale | - | Public report of hail measured up to 1.75 inches in diameter near Pleasant Dale, NE. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pleasant Dale | - | A 58 miles per hour wind gust was recorded by a mesonet station. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Pleasant Dale | - | Storm chaser reported 1.25-inch hail. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pleasant Dale | - | Trained spotters measured the wind with a handheld anemometer in the rear flank downdraft of a possibly tornadic thunderstorm. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Pleasant Dale | - | Ping-pong ball hail last about 10 minutes. |
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pleasant Dale | - | The spotter estimated wind gusts from 50 to 60 mph. |
| April 2012 | Tornado (EF1) | Pleasant Dale | - | A tornado destroyed several farm outbuildings and caused tree and house damage to several farmsteads near Twin Lakes northeast of Milford. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pleasant Dale | - | A spotter estimated that thunderstorm wind gusts reached 60 mph. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Pleasant Dale | - | Hail up to golf ball-size was reported near Pleasant Dale. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pleasant Dale | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 mph caused extensive tree damage and some structural damage in the Pleasant Dale area. The fire station had its roof scattered across the street and couldn't respond to a call due to debris blocking the fire trucks. Much of the town lost power as well. The city park sustained damage to a baseball dugout and picnic tables. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Pleasant Dale | - | Local TV meteorologists reported that 2 inch diameter hail fell in the Pleasant Dale area. |
| April 2005 | Hail | Pleasant Dale | - | Hail up to 1.25 inches in diameter covered Highway 103 south of town. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Pleasant Dale | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Pleasant Dale | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Pleasant Dale | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Pleasant Dale | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Pleasant Dale | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Pleasant Dale | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Pleasant Dale | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Pleasant Dale | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Pleasant Dale | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grover | 5.7 miles | 15 | |
| Riverside Park | 6.3 miles | 15 | |
| Milford | 6.4 miles | 15 | |
| Camden (historical) | 6.7 miles | 15 | |
| Ruby | 8.1 miles | 15 | |
| Garland | 10.9 miles | 15 | |
| Seward | 11.9 miles | 14 | |
| Goehner | 15.6 miles | 15 |
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 Pleasant Dale | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1865474 | 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 835414. 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.





