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Pleasanton, Nebraska

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Precinct 16. It lies in ZIP code area 68866. It lies near Pleasant Valley. The Survey maps it on the Pleasanton quadrangle. 361 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,083 feet above sea level.

Pleasanton within Buffalo County

Population over time

2 figures

Pleasanton grew from 341 to 361 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
2010341
2020361+20 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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.

What the histories say of this town

1,917 words

1 chapter about Pleasanton from the published histories of the county, public domain and reproduced complete.

ChapterFrom Length
Buffalo County, Nebraska, and Its People : a Record of Settlement, OrgBuffalo County, Nebraska, and Its People : a Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement (1916)1,917 words

Fires near this place

20 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Pleasanton between 2003 and 2018, burning about 154 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
Debris and open burning10
Equipment and vehicle use5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
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
19 July 2003Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
18 July 2005Equipment and vehicle use10 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
15 June 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
7 April 2018Debris and open burning3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 April 2006Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
5 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
4 April 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
17 April 2018Debris and open burning10 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Buffalo County

Storms near this place

37 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pleasanton in 37 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 25 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 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
July 2018HailPleasanton$500,000Hail up to the size of golf balls was reported.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindPleasanton$500,000Wind gusts in the area were estimated to be near 85 MPH, based on damage reports. There was widespread tree damage reported, especially in the Ravenna area. Several large trees were downed, some 4 to 6 feet in diameter, and heavy equipment was needed to clear some roads. Power lines were also downed in the area and a few homes and vehicles were damaged.
October 2023Thunderstorm WindPleasanton$300,000Wind gusts estimated to be near 70 MPH resulted in crop damage and at least four damaged or flipped pivots in the area. Large trees at an area farm suffered damage.
May 2013HailPleasanton$75,000no account filed
May 2005HailPleasanton$75,000no account filed
May 2005HailPleasanton$75,000no account filed
June 2011HailPleasanton$50,000no account filed
September 1998HailPleasanton$50,000no account filed
July 2015HailPleasanton$25,000Hail ranged from quarter to golf ball size.
August 2021HailPleasanton$25,000no account filed
May 2012HailPleasanton$25,000no account filed
August 1997Thunderstorm WindPleasanton$25,000no account filed
August 1996HailPleasanton$10,000no account filed
July 2022Flash FloodPleasanton$5,000Radar estimated that as much as 2 to 4 inches of rain fell across the area, the highest amounts focused in a small area in far northwestern Buffalo County north of Miller. Measured amounts of 2.5 to 3.5 inches were reported in and just to the southeast of Pleasanton. There were reports of creeks running full and some rural roads were covered with water.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindPleasanton$5,000no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindPleasanton$5,000no account filed
June 2008HailPleasanton$2,000no account filed
August 2001HailPleasanton$2,000no account filed
June 2024Thunderstorm WindPleasanton-Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindPleasanton-Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH.
June 2015HailPleasanton-Mostly nickel size hail fell, with a few quarter size hail stones mixed in.
June 2011Tornado (EF0)Pleasanton-This tornado skipped along a path which started approximately 3 miles southeast of Pleasanton and ended approximately 2 miles northeast of Pleasanton. No damage was reported with this tornado.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindPleasanton-Winds gusts estimated at 70 MPH.
June 2009HailPleasanton-Golf ball to hen egg size hail was reported.
April 2025HailPleasanton-no account filed
June 2022HailPleasanton-no account filed
July 2022HailPleasanton-no account filed
June 2017Thunderstorm WindPleasanton-no account filed
April 2015HailPleasanton-no account filed
August 2014Thunderstorm WindPleasanton-no account filed
August 2010HailPleasanton-no account filed
June 2009HailPleasanton-no account filed
July 2009HailPleasanton-no account filed
August 2007HailPleasanton-no account filed
March 2004HailPleasanton-no account filed
May 2001HailPleasanton-no account filed
September 2001HailPleasanton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Buffalo 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
Poole6.2 miles13
Sweetwater6.8 miles11
Sartoria6.8 miles15
Prairie Center7.7 miles16
Ravenna10.1 miles11
Nantasket (historical)12.8 miles12
Riverdale13.3 miles15
Glenwood Park15.0 miles20

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 PleasantonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2489372The 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 832267. 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.