BlockPowell, Nebraska
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Meridian precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68352. It stands on Big Sandy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gladstone quadrangle.
On record in Powell
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
District No. 10 Schoollisted 1978
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
- 1960 USGS Gladstone quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Fairbury quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
18 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Powell between 2014 and 2020, burning about 746 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 burning | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 2 May 2014 | Debris and open burning | 12 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 27 April 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 26 April 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 16 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 14 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 March 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
14 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Powell in 14 storm reports between 2007 and 2021: 8 hail, 5 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 death. 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 2015 | Flood | Powell | 1 killed, $5,000,000 | Extremely heavy rainfall of 6 to 10 inches fell across the northern basin of the Little Blue River. This cause the river to swell to record levels around the Fairbury area. The flooding resulted in the mandatory evacuations of areas of the western and southern parts of town, to the west of the Union Pacific Railroad tracks. The flooding of some residents along the river did result in one fatality of an elderly residence in her basement. The river crested at 25.42 feet or 6.92 feet above flood stage. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Powell | - | Mesonet station UR416 HEDRIW measured a peak wind gust of 55 knots. |
| March 2019 | Flood | Powell | - | The Little Blue River is out of its banks in many locations, inundating county roads across southern Jefferson county. |
| September 2010 | Hail | Powell | - | The ground was covered white with hail up to half dollar-size. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Powell | - | Hail up to 1 inch in diameter was reported northwest of Fairbury. The storm also dropped very heavy rain with amounts around 4 inches reported. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Powell | - | Hail up to golfball-size fell for about 15 minutes. |
| May 2008 | Flood | Powell | - | Heavy rain during the evening of May 29th caused the Little Blue River to flood across Jefferson county the next day. The river at Fairbury reached a 17.3 foot crest around 115pm CDT on May 30th, flood stage is 15 feet. The river was above flood stage at Fairbury from the early morning until the late evening hours of May 30th. The flooding affected mainly just agricultural lowlands and any damage was minimal. |
| June 2008 | Flood | Powell | - | Heavy rain from June 4th into the early morning hours of June 5th caused the Little Blue River to flood across Jefferson county for the second time in a week. The river at Fairbury from this event reached a 19.2 foot crest around 1030am CDT on June 5th, flood stage is 15 feet. The river was above flood stage at Fairbury from early morning until late afternoon on June 5th. The flooding crossed a few county roads near the river and also flooded agricultural lowlands. |
| May 2007 | Flood | Powell | - | Rainfall of 2 to 3 inches fell over parts of the Little Blue River basin on May 14th causing the river to flood on the 15th. A little over 2 1/2 inches was reported 7 miles northwest of Fairbury. The Little Blue River at Fairbury climbed to around 16 feet at 215 pm cdt on May 15th, flood stage is 15 feet. The river was above flood stage from around 9 am until 730 pm that day. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Powell | - | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Hail | Powell | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Powell | - | no account filed |
| September 2010 | Hail | Powell | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Powell | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hedrix | 2.6 miles | 11 | |
| Helvey | 3.5 miles | 10 | |
| Meridian (historical) | 4.2 miles | 10 | |
| Gladstone | 4.4 miles | 10 | |
| Bower (historical) | 6.3 miles | 10 | |
| Daykin | 7.0 miles | 10 | |
| Fairbury | 8.0 miles | 11 | |
| Thompson | 10.6 miles | 11 |
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 Powell | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q18343966 | 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 832335. 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.