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Sacramento, Nebraska

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Precinct 5. It lies in ZIP code area 68949. The Survey maps it on the Holdrege East quadrangle. It stands 2,267 feet above sea level.

Sacramento within Phelps County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

10 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Sacramento between 2000 and 2019, burning about 8 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 burning4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
13 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
1 July 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
9 June 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
7 May 2011Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
16 May 2008Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
27 April 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
13 February 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
5 October 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Phelps County

Storms near this place

12 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sacramento in 12 storm reports between 2009 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 3 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
December 2016Tornado (EF1)Sacramento$375,000This tornado touched down just south of the town of Funk. Along its short path, at least 6 power poles and 4 irrigation pivots were damaged. The maximum wind speed was estimated to be 100 MPH.
May 2024Tornado (EF0)Sacramento$150,000This weak and somewhat intermittent tornado touched down near the intersection of Highway 183 and Highway 4, then moved northeast. Damage was limited to trees, pivots, and a a few power poles along its roughly seven mile track. The estimated peak wind was 85 MPH. The tornado lifted just north of the Harlan and Phelps County line between T Road and U Road.
June 2010Flash FloodSacramento$10,000no account filed
June 2024Thunderstorm WindSacramento-Wind gusts of 66 MPH were measured by mesonet stations located two and three miles north-northwest of Wilcox.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindSacramento-A wind gust of 65 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located one mile west-northwest of Wilcox.
June 2018Tornado (EF0)Sacramento-An EF0 with a maximum wind speed of 65 mph occurred.
June 2018Tornado (EF0)Sacramento-A brief touch down of a tornado occurred with maximum wind speeds of 65 mph.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindSacramento-Wind gust measured by Fire Department.
June 2018HailSacramento-no account filed
September 2010HailSacramento-no account filed
June 2010Thunderstorm WindSacramento-no account filed
June 2010HailSacramento-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Phelps 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
Funk3.9 miles13
Holdrege5.5 miles13
Clyde7.6 miles13
Atlanta10.9 miles13
Loomis13.2 miles13
Westmark18.8 miles16
Bertrand20.7 miles16

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 SacramentoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7396949The 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 835437. 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.