Randolph, Nebraska
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Randolph City. It lies in ZIP code area 68771. The Survey maps it on the Randolph North quadrangle. 879 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,657 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresRandolph fell from 944 to 879 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 | 944 | |
| 2020 | 879 | -65 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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 Sioux City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Randolph North quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Norfolk quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
24 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Randolph between 2007 and 2020, burning about 127 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 27 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 19 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 July 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 30 July 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 25 July 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 May 2011 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 25 May 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
16 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Randolph in 16 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 9 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Randolph | $70,000 | 50 X 80 foot honey storage barn on the west side of Randolph was destroyed. Roof on the Randolph High School was damaged. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Randolph | - | Emergency management reported several tree limbs blown down across the town of Randolph. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Randolph | - | A spotter estimated thunderstorm winds reached at least 60 mph in the Randolph area. |
| June 2011 | Heavy Rain | Randolph | - | Rainfall of several inches fell in around an hour or so. The heavy rain caused some brief minor flooding across Highway 20 and also across some farm fields. |
| June 2004 | Hail | Randolph | - | There were still drifts of hail visible the next morning in Randolph. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Randolph | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 70 mph caused extensive tree damage in town. The fallen trees downed power lines and caused damage to several homes. The winds also blew the roof off of a service station in town. |
| July 2001 | Hail | Randolph | - | The hail was accompanied by thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at between 50 and 60 mph. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Randolph | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Randolph | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Hail | Randolph | - | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Hail | Randolph | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Randolph | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Randolph | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Randolph | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Randolph | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Funnel Cloud | Randolph | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Magnet | 8.0 miles | 9 | |
| Belden | 8.3 miles | 9 | |
| Coleridge | 12.0 miles | 9 | |
| Laurel | 14.6 miles | 9 | |
| Pleasant Valley | 16.6 miles | 9 | |
| Hartington | 17.5 miles | 9 | |
| Fordyce | 22.1 miles | 9 | |
| Constance | 23.0 miles | 9 |
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 Randolph | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q964105 | 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 832446. 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.




