Rising City, Nebraska
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Reading Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68658. The Survey maps it on the Rising City quadrangle. 356 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,588 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresRising City fell from 374 to 356 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 | 374 | |
| 2020 | 356 | -18 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 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.
- 1899 USGS David City quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Rising City quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS David City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Rising City in 2007, burning about 16 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 burning | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 April 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 15 March 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 28 November 2007 | Smoking | 15 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
36 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rising City in 36 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 19 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 flash flood. The reports record 8 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rising City | 7 hurt | See narrative below. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rising City | 1 hurt | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 70 mph downed power poles and trees northwest of Rising City. The winds flipped a semi-tractor trailer hauling playground equipment near the junction of highways 92 and 81 causing minor injuries to a passenger. Around 1600 customers lost power in Butler county due to downed power lines. |
| October 2000 | Tornado (F0) | Rising City | $13,000 | A tornado touched down around 1 mile east of Rising City. Moving north, it damaged a corn crib and an old garage around 6 miles south of Bellwood and then overturned 2 center pivots and downed a few trees and power lines before lifting around 5 miles south of Bellwood. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Rising City | - | Public reported 1.25 inch hail. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rising City | - | Emergency manager reported several structures at a dairy cow confinement facility blown to the northeast of the property. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rising City | - | Emergency manager reported several center pivots overturned. |
| May 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rising City | - | Fire department estimated wind at 60 mph. |
| May 2021 | Hail | Rising City | - | Fire department reported 1.5 inch hail covering the ground. |
| August 2021 | Hail | Rising City | - | Storm chaser reported 1.5 inch hail. |
| August 2021 | Hail | Rising City | - | Storm chaser reported 1 inch hail. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rising City | - | A large tree was blown down 3 miles south of Rising City. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rising City | - | Trees and power lines were down in Rising City. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rising City | - | An estimated 60 mph wind gust was reported 3 miles northwest of Rising City. |
| May 2016 | Flash Flood | Rising City | - | Emergency manger reported flooding over State Highway 92 north of Surprise. |
| May 2016 | Flash Flood | Rising City | - | Emergency management reported that flooding continued across State Highway 92, but also several rural roadways were flooding in and around the city of Rising City. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Rising City | - | Pea to nickel size hail was covering the ground. |
| July 2014 | Hail | Rising City | - | Several reports from trained spotters and the public reported hail up to golf ball size from Rising City to just south of the city of Rising City. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rising City | - | The emergency manager estimated winds to 60 mph. |
| May 2013 | Tornado (EF0) | Rising City | - | This was a quick spin up tornado amongst a cluster of thunderstorms. No damage was reported with this brief tornado. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Rising City | - | Hail of around an inch in diameter fell in and west of Rising City. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rising City | - | Spotters estimated wind gusts of around 60 mph from northwest of Rising City into town. The winds were accompanied by nickel-size hail. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Rising City | - | Accompanied by thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rising City | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 70 mph knocked a very large tree onto a garage destroying half of it. Other tree damage was noted in town. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rising City | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at over 70 mph knocked down 8 inch diameter trees near Rising City. |
| September 2006 | Hail | Rising City | - | From the same supercell that produced the tornado in Surprise. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rising City | - | A thunderstorm wind gust estimated at over 60 mph blew down a tree across a road near Rising City. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Rising City | - | no account filed |
| September 2015 | Hail | Rising City | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Rising City | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Rising City | - | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Hail | Rising City | - | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Hail | Rising City | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Rising City | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Rising City | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Rising City | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Rising City | - | 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.
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 Rising City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2652234 | 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 832565. 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.





