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.
Population over time
2 figuresSaronville 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 47 | |
| 2020 | 35 | -12 (-26%) |
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.
- 1898 USGS York quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1899 USGS York quadrangle1:125000
- 1955 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Saronville quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS York quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
123 words on this townshipThe '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 2002Regional 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/undetermined | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 July 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Rainwater Basin Wetland Management District | MCSKUNK |
| 26 March 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 15 March 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 28 February 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 27 February 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 43 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 12 November 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
23 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Saronville | $2,000,000 | Peak 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 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Saronville | $1,500,000 | At least 80 mph winds toppled a newly constructed 125 foot tall grain bin and pulled the anchor bolts out of the cement foundation. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Saronville | $250,000 | Hail up to the size of tennis balls was reported along and near this path. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Saronville | $250,000 | Reports received via social media and broadcast media of hail between three and four inches in diameter in and around Saronville. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Saronville | $100,000 | Golf ball to hen egg size hail was reported. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Saronville | $100,000 | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Hail | Saronville | $100,000 | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Saronville | $50,000 | A short path tornado reported by storm chasers |
| May 1998 | Hail | Saronville | $40,000 | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Flash Flood | Saronville | $25,000 | Water was reported running over Highway 6 approximately 1.5 miles east of the Highway 14 intersection. Numerous rural roads were under water. |
| May 2000 | Lightning | Saronville | $25,000 | no account filed |
| October 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Saronville | $2,000 | Wind 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 2023 | Hail | Saronville | - | Hail up to the size of nickels fell off-and-on for approximately 30 minutes. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Saronville | - | 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 2020 | Flash Flood | Saronville | - | 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 2020 | Tornado (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 2025 | Hail | Saronville | - | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | Saronville | - | no account filed |
| August 2020 | Hail | Saronville | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Saronville | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Saronville | - | no account filed |
| September 2015 | Hail | Saronville | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Saronville | - | 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 Saronville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1994552 | 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 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.






