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Republican City, Nebraska

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Mullally Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68971. The Survey maps it on the Republican City quadrangle. 134 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,028 feet above sea level.

Republican City within Harlan County

Population over time

2 figures

Republican City fell from 150 to 134 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
2010150
2020134-16 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

10 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Republican City between 2000 and 2020, burning about 86 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
Smoking3
Debris and open burning2
Natural1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
14 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
13 August 2020Smoking2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
10 August 2012Smoking20 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
22 July 2017Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
2 July 2017Natural5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
8 April 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
27 April 2009Debris and open burning15 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
24 March 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Harlan County

Storms near this place

26 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Republican City in 26 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 17 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
May 2012HailRepublican City$250,000no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindRepublican City$150,000no account filed
May 2013HailRepublican City$75,000no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindRepublican City$75,000no account filed
June 2018Thunderstorm WindRepublican City$25,000Power lines were blown over due to a rear flank downdraft.
May 2012HailRepublican City$25,000no account filed
May 2005HailRepublican City$25,000no account filed
May 2004HailRepublican City$25,000no account filed
May 2012HailRepublican City$15,000no account filed
May 2008HailRepublican City$10,000no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindRepublican City$5,000no account filed
May 2007Thunderstorm WindRepublican City$1,000no account filed
May 2024Thunderstorm WindRepublican City-A wind gust of 64 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located one mile east-southeast of Harlan County Dam.
August 2015Heavy RainRepublican City-A 24-hour rainfall total of 3.75 inches occurred two miles northwest of Republican City. This was recorded by an NeRAIN observer (Nebraska Rainfall Assessment and Information Network). In addition, the NWS coop observer at Harlan County Lake tallied 3.34. Rain began during the early afternoon on August 4th.
August 2011Heavy RainRepublican City-Storm total rainfall of 3.80 inches was reported by a Nebraska Rainfall Assessment and Information Network observer.
September 2015HailRepublican City-no account filed
May 2012HailRepublican City-no account filed
May 2012HailRepublican City-no account filed
September 2012HailRepublican City-no account filed
May 2010HailRepublican City-no account filed
August 2010HailRepublican City-no account filed
July 2005HailRepublican City-no account filed
May 2001HailRepublican City-no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindRepublican City-no account filed
July 1996HailRepublican City-no account filed
July 1995HailRepublican City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Harlan 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
Alma7.5 miles13
Huntley8.5 miles13
Orleans12.6 miles13
Ragan15.0 miles13
Flynn Junction15.8 miles13
Stamford19.9 miles13
Mascot20.7 miles14
Oxford Junction22.1 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 Republican CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2751339The 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 835013. 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.