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Royal, Nebraska

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Royal Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68773. The Survey maps it on the Orchard quadrangle. 58 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,880 feet above sea level.

Royal within Antelope County

On record in Royal

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Royal fell from 63 to 58 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
201063
202058-5 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Royal between 2004 and 2018, burning about 15 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 burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
29 April 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
17 April 2004Debris and open burning3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
19 November 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Antelope County

Storms near this place

29 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Royal in 29 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 15 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 1 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
June 2000HailRoyal$1,000The hail cracked the windshields of at least 5 cars in the area.
May 2022HailRoyal-Trained spotter reported dime to quarter size hail.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindRoyal-COOP observer reported small branches down and a screen door blown off of its hinges.
May 2019HailRoyal-The public reported hail up to 1 inch in diameter. The hail was soft and disintegrating on impact.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindRoyal-A thunderstorm produced damaging winds that broke large limbs off cottonwood trees in Royal.
October 2013Tornado (EF2)Royal-The tornado developed about 2 miles east, and 6 miles south of the city of Royal. The tornado moved in a nearly due north fashion passing to the east of the city. The tornado impacted several farmsteads during the greater than 6 mile path. Outbuildings, trees and power line damage was common along the path of the tornado.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindRoyal-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph blew tree debris onto Highway 20 near Royal.
June 2011Heavy RainRoyal-Rainfall of a little over 2 inches fell in less than 1 hour. The heavy rain reduced visibilities to near zero and caused some brief minor flooding in the area.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindRoyal-Thunderstorm winds estimated at close to 60 mph downed large tree limbs near Royal.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindRoyal-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 65 to 75 mph snapped power poles south of Royal.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindRoyal-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph caused extensive tree damage northeast of Royal.
June 2003Tornado (F0)Royal-A trained weather spotter reported a brief touchdown of a tornado in open country near Royal.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindRoyal-A storm spotter reported thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 65 mph in Royal. The strong winds were accompanied by 1/2 inch hail. The winds caused tree damage in town.
June 2000Tornado (F0)Royal-The second Heavy Precipitation (HP) supercell to pass just north of Royal this night produced another short-lived small tornado that touched down in open country causing little or no damage.
June 2000Tornado (F0)Royal-Brief touchdown in open country. The tornado picked up dust but caused no damage.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindRoyal-Trees downed.
June 2014HailRoyal-no account filed
June 2014HailRoyal-no account filed
June 2011HailRoyal-no account filed
June 2009HailRoyal-no account filed
July 2007HailRoyal-no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindRoyal-no account filed
June 2006HailRoyal-no account filed
September 2006HailRoyal-no account filed
July 2005HailRoyal-no account filed
June 2002HailRoyal-no account filed
September 1998HailRoyal-no account filed
September 1998HailRoyal-no account filed
May 1996HailRoyal-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Antelope 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
Orchard6.2 miles10
Brunswick8.2 miles9
Clearwater11.7 miles10
Neligh14.9 miles10
Oakdale19.9 miles9
Elgin24.2 miles10

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 RoyalAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2195799The 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 832761. 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.