BlockRuby, Nebraska
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Precinct J. It lies in ZIP code area 68405. It stands on Crooked Creek. The Survey maps it on the Milford quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 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.
- 1934 USGS Seward quadrangle1:48000
- 1939 USGS Seward quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Milford quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS York quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Ruby in 2009, burning about 2 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 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 March 2009 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ruby in 11 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 3 hail, 1 flash flood. The reports record 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2001 | Tornado (F4) | Ruby | 2 hurt, $1,000,000 | A slow moving tornado tracked from south of Seward to just east of town with a total track length of 8 miles. The tornado was caught on film by several chasers. The tornado destroyed an entire farmstead and a propane and anhydrous ammonia tank farm and machine shed. Several vehicles were tumbled and tossed into a field across from the farm house. The tornado was at its maximum intensity at the farmstead it destroyed. Northeast of highway 34 the tornado struck several sheds and barns. |
| August 2025 | Hail | Ruby | - | Trained spotter report of hail measured at 1 inch in diameter. |
| August 2025 | Hail | Ruby | - | Trained spotter report of hail measured at 0.88 inches in diameter. |
| May 2024 | Tornado (EF0) | Ruby | - | This tornado was a very brief spin-up causing minor damage to a center pivot. The peak winds in this tornado were estimated to be at 70 miles per hour. The maximum width was measured to be 20 yards with an estimated width also at 20 yards. |
| May 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ruby | - | A public personal weather station measured a peak wind gust of 59 mph. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ruby | - | Personal weather station measured a peak wind gust of 61 mph. |
| December 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ruby | - | A storm survey observed power poles snapped in this area and center pivot irrigation system overturned. |
| May 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ruby | - | Thunderstorm winds were estimated at between 85 and 90 mph near the I80 interchange north of Milford. The winds were possibly outflow from the rear flank downdraft with the supercell thunderstorm that produced several tornadoes in the region. |
| May 2014 | Tornado (EF2) | Ruby | - | This tornado initially touched down southwest of Garland and was from the same supercell thunderstorm that produced the EF3 tornado that hit Beaver Crossing. Soon after this tornado developed it moved through a newly developed areas of homes along Sunset Rd to the southwest of Garland. Here the tornado was responsible for completely destroying several well built large outbuildings. In addition the tornado damaged two homes where the roofs were partially removed, as well downing numerous trees in this area. The tornado continued east along US Highway 34 while weakening, but still damaging small outbuildings and breaking tree limbs. |
| June 2001 | Flash Flood | Ruby | - | Heavy rain from several supercells that tracked across Seward county caused flash flooding over a bridge on Highway 15 south of Seward. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Ruby | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Riverside Park | 3.3 miles | 15 | |
| Grover | 4.1 miles | 15 | |
| Milford | 4.2 miles | 15 | |
| Seward | 5.3 miles | 14 | |
| Goehner | 7.6 miles | 15 | |
| Pleasant Dale | 8.1 miles | 15 | |
| Tamora | 9.0 miles | 14 | |
| Garland | 9.2 miles | 15 |
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 Ruby | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q17596472 | 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 835434. 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.