Rogers, Nebraska
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Rogers precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68659. The Survey maps it on the Rogers quadrangle. 82 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,309 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresRogers fell from 95 to 82 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 | 95 | |
| 2020 | 82 | -13 (-14%) |
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 Wahoo quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Rogers quadrangle1:24000
- 1982 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
7 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Rogers between 2004 and 2020, burning about 43 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 May 2004 | Natural | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 5 March 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 23 February 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 18 February 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 3 November 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 13 October 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 41 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this place
14 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rogers in 14 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 9 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2019 | Flash Flood | Rogers | $170,000 | A levee on Shell Creek was topped by waters from heavy rain and fast snow melt. This caused the town of Rogers to be flooded. The town was evacuated in anticipation that water would enter the town. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Rogers | - | Trained spotter report of hail estimated at 1.00 inch in diameter. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Rogers | - | Public reported 1-inch hail. |
| March 2019 | Flood | Rogers | - | Evacuations are taking place. |
| June 2018 | Flash Flood | Rogers | - | Recent high water from heavy rains in Colfax County caused a levee to break on Shell Creek near County Road 15, just south of US Highway 30. Flooding from the levee break impacted several county roads between the Platte River and US Highway 30. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Rogers | - | Hail up to half dollar-size fell for about 30 minutes just north of Rogers from a slow moving thunderstorm. |
| May 2011 | Funnel Cloud | Rogers | - | High based towering cumulus or a small developing thunderstorm produced a funnel cloud that prompted numerous calls to the NWS from many directions from north of Columbus to the Fremont area. The funnel could have possibly touched down according to a public report and still pictures viewed at the NWS. However, no reports of damage or solid confirmation of a touchdown was received. The cell that produced the funnel was on the northeast or leading edge of a thunderstorm in Butler county that developed into a relatively short-lived line of strong thunderstorms over the next hour or so. |
| August 2009 | Hail | Rogers | - | Hail up to golf ball-size was reported a few miles north of Rogers. This was from the same cell that produced similar size hail in the Columbus area. |
| May 2015 | Hail | Rogers | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Rogers | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Rogers | - | no account filed |
| March 1998 | Hail | Rogers | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Rogers | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Tornado (F0) | Rogers | - | 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 Rogers | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3287794 | 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 832661. 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.





