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Redington, Nebraska

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Redington precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69336. The Survey maps it on the Redington quadrangle. It stands 3,891 feet above sea level.

Redington within Morrill County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Redington between 2002 and 2017, burning about 5,086 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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
10 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
27 August 2014Natural80 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
3 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined5,000 acresNorth Platte National Wildlife RefugeBIRD
21 July 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNorth Platte National Wildlife RefugeTHEPOINT

Every fire recorded in Morrill County

Storms near this place

18 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Redington in 18 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 12 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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
May 1998HailRedington$3,000A storm produced golf ball to baseball size hail in the Redington area.
June 2025HailRedington-Public reports ping pong ball to golf ball sized hail.
July 2023HailRedington-Report received from Facebook of 2 inch hail and cracked car wind shield.
July 2023Flash FloodRedington-Received via Facebook of county roads flooded in and around Redington.
August 2021HailRedington-Spotter reported ping pong ball sized hail 7 miles southwest of Bridgeport.
June 2017HailRedington-Quarter size hail covered the ground at Redington.
June 2017HailRedington-Quarter size hail covered the ground east of Redington.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindRedington-Estimated 70 mph wind gusts snapped a utility pole.
June 2015HailRedington-Hen egg size hail was observed three miles west of Court House and Jail Rock.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindRedington-Estimated wind gusts of 70 mph were reported in Redington.
July 2000Tornado (F0)Redington-Brief tornado reported over open country.
June 1999Tornado (F0)Redington-Brief tornado touchdown near Redington, NE
July 1998Thunderstorm WindRedington-A thunderstorm produced a gust of 80 mph 11 miles southeast of Redington.
July 2020HailRedington-no account filed
May 2004HailRedington-no account filed
September 2004HailRedington-no account filed
August 2002HailRedington-no account filed
April 2000HailRedington-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morrill 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
Mohler9.2 miles13
South Bayard9.5 miles13
Atkins10.1 miles13
Bridgeport10.8 miles14
DeGraw11.0 miles13
Northport11.9 miles14
Bayard12.1 miles13
Piper12.2 miles13

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 RedingtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18393816The 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 832506. 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.