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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.

Randolph within Cedar County

Population over time

2 figures

Randolph 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.

YearPeople Change
2010944
2020879-65 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

24 since 2007

Regional 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 use10
Debris and open burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
27 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use15 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
7 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
30 July 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
25 July 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
7 May 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
25 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cedar County

Storms near this place

16 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1998Thunderstorm WindRandolph$70,00050 X 80 foot honey storage barn on the west side of Randolph was destroyed. Roof on the Randolph High School was damaged.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindRandolph-Emergency management reported several tree limbs blown down across the town of Randolph.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindRandolph-A spotter estimated thunderstorm winds reached at least 60 mph in the Randolph area.
June 2011Heavy RainRandolph-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 2004HailRandolph-There were still drifts of hail visible the next morning in Randolph.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindRandolph-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 2001HailRandolph-The hail was accompanied by thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at between 50 and 60 mph.
April 2017HailRandolph-no account filed
April 2015HailRandolph-no account filed
August 2011HailRandolph-no account filed
April 2010HailRandolph-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindRandolph-no account filed
July 2002HailRandolph-no account filed
June 1998HailRandolph-no account filed
June 1998HailRandolph-no account filed
July 1997Funnel CloudRandolph-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cedar 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
Magnet8.0 miles9
Belden8.3 miles9
Coleridge12.0 miles9
Laurel14.6 miles9
Pleasant Valley16.6 miles9
Hartington17.5 miles9
Fordyce22.1 miles9
Constance23.0 miles9

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 RandolphAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q964105The 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.