Prague, Nebraska
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Chester Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68050. The Survey maps it on the Prague quadrangle. 291 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,342 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresPrague fell from 303 to 291 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 | 303 | |
| 2020 | 291 | -12 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 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.
- 1899 USGS Wahoo quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Prague quadrangle1:24000
- 1982 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
21 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Prague between 2009 and 2019, burning about 70 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 | 15 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 8 August 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 July 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 26 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 24 May 2009 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 25 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 23 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
23 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Prague in 23 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 14 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2025 | Hail | Prague | - | Storm chaser report of hail measured up to 1.50 inches in diameter. |
| September 2025 | Hail | Prague | - | Public report of hail measured up to 1.75 inches in diameter. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prague | - | Trained spotter reported an estimated 60 mph wind gust. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Prague | - | Trained spotter reported quarter sized hail. |
| August 2023 | Funnel Cloud | Prague | - | Public reported a brief funnel cloud north of Prague that last for about a minute and went away. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prague | - | Some large branches were reported downed. |
| August 2007 | Heavy Rain | Prague | - | Twenty-four hour rainfall of 4.1 inches was reported north of Prague, most of it fell from 5 pm through 11 pm CDT on the 28th. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prague | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated as high as 75 mph blew entire trees down and caused damage to a house and garage southwest of Prague and knocked down several tree limbs 8 inches in diamter in Prague. |
| September 2005 | Hail | Prague | - | Several reports of penny size hail were received from around the Prague area. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prague | - | A ham radio operator reported that thunderstorm wind gusts downed trees and blew grain bin tops off east of Prague. These winds were caused by the same severe storm cluster that caused the extensive tree damage around Wahoo. |
| August 1998 | Flash Flood | Prague | - | Sand Creek out of its banks in Prague area. |
| August 1994 | Hail | Prague | - | Strong thunderstorm winds caused damage to the roof of Mead High School. |
| September 2018 | Hail | Prague | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Prague | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Prague | - | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Hail | Prague | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Prague | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Prague | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Prague | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Prague | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Prague | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Tornado (F0) | Prague | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Flash Flood | Prague | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rescue (historical) | 4.0 miles | 11 | |
| Malmo | 5.5 miles | 11 | |
| Morse Bluff | 8.7 miles | 11 | |
| Weston | 8.7 miles | 11 | |
| Colon | 10.8 miles | 11 | |
| Cedar Bluffs | 12.0 miles | 12 | |
| Wahoo | 12.1 miles | 12 | |
| Touhy | 12.3 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 Prague | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2084234 | 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 832340. 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.





