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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.

Prague within Saunders County

Population over time

2 figures

Prague 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.

YearPeople Change
2010303
2020291-12 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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 2009

Regional 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 burning15
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
11 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
7 July 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
26 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
24 May 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
7 April 2018Debris and open burning3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
25 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
23 April 2018Debris and open burning6.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saunders County

Storms near this place

23 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2025HailPrague-Storm chaser report of hail measured up to 1.50 inches in diameter.
September 2025HailPrague-Public report of hail measured up to 1.75 inches in diameter.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindPrague-Trained spotter reported an estimated 60 mph wind gust.
July 2023HailPrague-Trained spotter reported quarter sized hail.
August 2023Funnel CloudPrague-Public reported a brief funnel cloud north of Prague that last for about a minute and went away.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindPrague-Some large branches were reported downed.
August 2007Heavy RainPrague-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 2007Thunderstorm WindPrague-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 2005HailPrague-Several reports of penny size hail were received from around the Prague area.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindPrague-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 1998Flash FloodPrague-Sand Creek out of its banks in Prague area.
August 1994HailPrague-Strong thunderstorm winds caused damage to the roof of Mead High School.
September 2018HailPrague-no account filed
June 2008HailPrague-no account filed
March 2006HailPrague-no account filed
September 2006HailPrague-no account filed
June 2002HailPrague-no account filed
August 2002HailPrague-no account filed
May 2000HailPrague-no account filed
June 1998HailPrague-no account filed
June 1996HailPrague-no account filed
June 1996Tornado (F0)Prague-no account filed
June 1996Flash FloodPrague-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Saunders 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
Rescue (historical)4.0 miles11
Malmo5.5 miles11
Morse Bluff8.7 miles11
Weston8.7 miles11
Colon10.8 miles11
Cedar Bluffs12.0 miles12
Wahoo12.1 miles12
Touhy12.3 miles11

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 PragueAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2084234The 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.