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Rose, Nebraska

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Pewaukee precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68714. The Survey maps it on the Rose quadrangle.

Rose within Rock County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

1 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Rose in 2006, burning under an acre 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
30 August 2006Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreJohn W and Louise Seier National Wildlife RefugeSEIER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rock County

Storms near this place

60 of 101 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rose in 101 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 89 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado. 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 2011HailRose$100,000Fire Chief reported large hail fell for 20 minutes in Sybrant. The large hail broke out several vehicle windows and four homes had windows and siding broken or damaged.
June 2008Tornado (EF2)Rose$50,000This multiple vortex tornado formed near Rose and tracked northeast for about 20 miles before exiting Rock County about 13 miles south-southeast of Newport at 1500 CST. In Rock County, the tornado broke power poles, shifted a house off its foundation a few inches, destroyed outbuildings, overturned a couple of center pivot irrigation systems, and snapped trees. The tornado maintained the EF2 intensity through Rock and Holt County. The average path width in Rock County was 30 yards.
June 1998HailRose$50,000Damage to vehicles and buildings
June 2007HailRose$35,000Golfball hail for 20 minutes along northern shore of Pony Lake.
June 2007HailRose$15,000no account filed
July 2001HailRose$12,000no account filed
July 2001HailRose$10,000no account filed
July 2001HailRose$6,000no account filed
May 2011HailRose$5,000Windows broken out of a home.
August 1996Thunderstorm WindRose$5,000no account filed
July 2003HailRose$3,000no account filed
July 2003HailRose$3,000no account filed
August 2017Thunderstorm WindRose$2,000A two to three foot diameter tree uprooted at this location.
May 2008HailRose$2,000Softball size hail was observed at the Rose church. Windows were knocked out of one vehicle.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindRose$2,0004 inch tree limbs down.
June 1999HailRose$2,000no account filed
May 2011HailRose$1,000Two vehicles had windshields damaged from hail. One vehicle rear window was also broken out. Hail covered the ground.
May 2004HailRose$1,000no account filed
October 2001HailRose$1,000no account filed
June 2024HailRose-Time estimated by Radar.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindRose-Measured winds from automated weather station.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindRose-The damaging winds blew down several tree limbs. The size of the limbs were unknown.
May 2011Tornado (EF0)Rose-Brief tornado touched down in the sandhills 100 to 300 yards east of Highway 183.
May 2011HailRose-Hail covered the ground.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindRose-The public reported severe wind gusts tearing some shingles off a home and downing a tree.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindRose-The public reported wind gusts in excess of 60 mph with torrential rainfall.
May 2008HailRose-The fire chief of the volunteer fire department reported golfball to tennis ball size hail covering the ground to a depth of 8 to 10 inches.
June 2003Tornado (F0)Rose-A weak tornado touched down in open rangeland.
June 2003Tornado (F0)Rose-The tornado touched down in an open pasture.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindRose-Thunderstorm outflow broke large limbs off trees at a ranch.
June 2025HailRose-no account filed
June 2024HailRose-no account filed
June 2024HailRose-no account filed
June 2024HailRose-no account filed
May 2024HailRose-no account filed
July 2024HailRose-no account filed
June 2020HailRose-no account filed
June 2020HailRose-no account filed
June 2020HailRose-no account filed
June 2020HailRose-no account filed
June 2020HailRose-no account filed
June 2020HailRose-no account filed
August 2019HailRose-no account filed
June 2018HailRose-no account filed
June 2017HailRose-no account filed
June 2016HailRose-no account filed
September 2015HailRose-no account filed
July 2014HailRose-no account filed
July 2014HailRose-no account filed
May 2012HailRose-no account filed
September 2012HailRose-no account filed
May 2011HailRose-no account filed
May 2011HailRose-no account filed
June 2010HailRose-no account filed
October 2010HailRose-no account filed
May 2008HailRose-no account filed
May 2008HailRose-no account filed
May 2008HailRose-no account filed
May 2008HailRose-no account filed
June 2008HailRose-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rock 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
Duff4.4 miles9
Sybrant13.3 miles9
Bassett28.0 miles9
Newport30.9 miles10
Mariaville42.3 miles10
Dyer43.0 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 835430. 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.