BlockRuskin, Nebraska
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Spring Creek precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68974. The Survey maps it on the Ruskin quadrangle. 105 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,680 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresRuskin fell from 123 to 105 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 | 123 | |
| 2020 | 105 | -18 (-15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 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.
- 1898 USGS Hebron quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Ruskin quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Fairbury quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Ruskin between 2001 and 2008, burning about 17 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 | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 August 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 4 March 2006 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 4 February 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 10 October 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this place
23 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ruskin in 23 storm reports between 2001 and 2024: 8 hail, 6 heavy rain, 4 tornado, 4 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2022 | Tornado (EF0) | Ruskin | $500,000 | This tornado touched down in Nuckolls County, just northwest of Ruskin, and moved southeast across town. In town, most of the damage was confined to trees. After passing through town, the tornado destroyed a shed and two empty grain bins south of town. As the tornado rapidly traveled southeast, it upset roughly a half-dozen irrigation pivots, damaged at least two more grain bins, peeled tin and shingles from the rooftops of at least two buildings, and damaged trees. After nearly 10 miles, the tornado lifted three miles north of Byron in Thayer County. |
| April 2005 | Hail | Ruskin | $250,000 | no account filed |
| April 2016 | Flash Flood | Ruskin | $150,000 | Flash flooding struck western Thayer and eastern Nuckolls County on this Tuesday evening/night, thanks to a fairly narrow, north-south oriented swath of at least 4-6 inches of rain. The greatest flooding impacts occurred in the community of Deshler, as both the Spring Creek and Snake Creek flooded, along with general street flooding. The fire chief evacuated approximately 45 residents from a local nursing and assisted living home. A few residents on the south side of town on 4th Street were also evacuated. A person was trapped south of Snake Creek Bridge on 4th Street, due to the quickly rising water. Flooding also closed Highway 136 between Deshler and Ruskin for several hours, as storm chaser video depicted a roughly 200-yard stretch of water rushing across the highway three miles west of Deshler around 7:45 p.m. CDT. In addition to Highway 136, a number of rural county roads were covered with water due to flooding from nearby Spring Creek. Although general flooding of mainly low-lying areas persisted into the day of Wednesday the 27th, the worst of the more serious flash flooding eased during the pre-dawn hours. |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F1) | Ruskin | $100,000 | A tornado south of Ruskin destroyed 5 grain bins and broke several power poles. The damage was strewn over about 2 miles. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ruskin | $40,000 | High winds from a severe thunderstorm knocked over or caused damage to about 20 tombstones at the Spring Creek Cemetery south of Ruskin. Several large trees were damaged or completely blown over. |
| April 2005 | Heavy Rain | Ruskin | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Ruskin | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Ruskin | $25,000 | no account filed |
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ruskin | - | A wind gust of 61 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located two miles south of Ruskin. |
| May 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ruskin | - | A wind gust of 72 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located five miles south-southeast of Ruskin. |
| May 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ruskin | - | A wind gust of 60 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located two miles south of Ruskin. |
| April 2022 | Tornado (EF0) | Ruskin | - | This tornado touched down in Nuckolls County just southeast of Ruskin, traveling northeast into Thayer County and lifting just northwest of Deshler. Along with tree damage, several pivots were overturned along this path. A shelter at a cemetery near the county line suffered minor damage, and an outbuilding west of Deshler lost a good portion of its roof. |
| July 2017 | Heavy Rain | Ruskin | - | A storm total rainfall amount of 4.00 inches was measured. |
| April 2016 | Heavy Rain | Ruskin | - | Twenty-four rainfall was 5.10 inches. |
| May 2015 | Heavy Rain | Ruskin | - | A 24 hour storm total rainfall amount of 7.70 inches was reported. |
| October 2013 | Heavy Rain | Ruskin | - | A rainfall total of 3.72 inches occurred. |
| April 2012 | Heavy Rain | Ruskin | - | Storm total precipitation of 3.07 inches was reported. |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Ruskin | - | Ruskin spotters reported a tornado north of town. |
| July 2019 | Hail | Ruskin | - | no account filed |
| April 2016 | Hail | Ruskin | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Ruskin | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Ruskin | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Ruskin | - | 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 Ruskin | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1863589 | 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 832789. 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.