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Saronville, Nebraska

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lewis Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68975. The Survey maps it on the Saronville quadrangle. 35 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,752 feet above sea level.

Saronville within Clay County

Population over time

2 figures

Saronville fell from 47 to 35 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
201047
202035-12 (-26%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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.

In the county-history sources

123 words on this township

The 'centennial' Sketch of Clay County, Nebraska, published 1876 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Lewis Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Lewis Township - 123 words.

Fires near this place

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Saronville between 2002 and 2018, burning about 46 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning1

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
8 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresRainwater Basin Wetland Management DistrictMCSKUNK
26 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
15 March 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
28 February 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
27 February 2016Equipment and vehicle use43 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
12 November 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

23 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Saronville in 23 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 14 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 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
June 2022Thunderstorm WindSaronville$2,000,000Peak wind gusts estimated to be around 95 MPH caused widespread damage along and near this path. Numerous power poles were damaged, including several that were snapped. Tree damage was reported, and several irrigation pivots were overturned. Outbuilding damage occurred, and a grain bin just west of Saronville was shifted off its foundation and crumpled. A shed was overturned north of Sutton.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindSaronville$1,500,000At least 80 mph winds toppled a newly constructed 125 foot tall grain bin and pulled the anchor bolts out of the cement foundation.
July 2023HailSaronville$250,000Hail up to the size of tennis balls was reported along and near this path.
July 2023HailSaronville$250,000Reports received via social media and broadcast media of hail between three and four inches in diameter in and around Saronville.
June 2009HailSaronville$100,000Golf ball to hen egg size hail was reported.
July 2023HailSaronville$100,000no account filed
July 2023HailSaronville$100,000no account filed
September 2001Tornado (F0)Saronville$50,000A short path tornado reported by storm chasers
May 1998HailSaronville$40,000no account filed
May 2012Flash FloodSaronville$25,000Water was reported running over Highway 6 approximately 1.5 miles east of the Highway 14 intersection. Numerous rural roads were under water.
May 2000LightningSaronville$25,000no account filed
October 2020Thunderstorm WindSaronville$2,000Wind gusts estimated to be near 60 MPH resulted in blowing dust and corn stalks in the area, along with near zero visibility. One vehicle left the roadway due to the conditions. A power line was blown into a tree just northwest of town, causing a fire in the tree.
July 2023HailSaronville-Hail up to the size of nickels fell off-and-on for approximately 30 minutes.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindSaronville-Wind gusts were estimated to be near 70 MPH by a Cooperative Observer and a trained spotter. Tree damage was reported, including small trees 8 to 10 inches in diameter being snapped.
August 2020Flash FloodSaronville-A state maintained paved road approximately 1 mile south of Saronville was under water from School Creek. A nearby NWS Cooperative Observer located 6 miles east-southeast of Clay Center reported a 24-total rainfall total of 3.33 inches.
August 2020Tornado (EF0)Saronville-A second brief tornado over Clay County was confirmed through video and was located about 1.5 miles southeast of Saronville. This tornado lasted no more than a minute and there was no reported damage.
August 2025HailSaronville-no account filed
May 2024HailSaronville-no account filed
August 2020HailSaronville-no account filed
May 2018HailSaronville-no account filed
June 2015HailSaronville-no account filed
September 2015HailSaronville-no account filed
May 1995HailSaronville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Verona3.6 miles15
Sutton4.2 miles15
Eldorado6.5 miles15
Clay Center8.3 miles12
Harvard8.5 miles12
Fairfield14.7 miles11
Ong15.0 miles12
Inland15.1 miles12

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 SaronvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1994552The 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 833227. 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.