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Scotia, Nebraska

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Scotia precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68875. It stands on Wallace Creek. The Survey maps it on the Scotia quadrangle. 301 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,929 feet above sea level.

Scotia within Greeley County

On record in Scotia

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Scotia fell from 318 to 301 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
2010318
2020301-17 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

6 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Scotia between 2003 and 2017, burning about 38 acres in total. 1 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 burning3
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
28 July 2005Natural7.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
21 April 2009Debris and open burning25 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
25 March 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
25 February 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
23 February 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
17 November 2011Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greeley County

Storms near this place

30 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Scotia in 30 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 19 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 heavy rain, 1 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
March 2019FloodScotia$2,000,000no account filed
June 2024Thunderstorm WindScotia$500,000Wind gusts estimated to be near 80 MPH caused widespread damage in eastern Valley and western Greeley counties. Along with tree damage, a handful of power poles were snapped, and several irrigation pivots were flipped. A number of grain bins and outbuildings were damaged, and a home north of North Loup suffered siding damage and also had a couple of trailers shifted from their parked spots.
July 2018HailScotia$100,000Hail up the size of half dollars was reported.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindScotia$75,000Considerable damage occurred to outbuildings and house windows were broken.
September 2019HailScotia$75,000no account filed
June 1997HailScotia$30,000no account filed
June 1997HailScotia$30,000no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindScotia$25,000A truck with a utility trailer flipped over on Highway 22. This occurred from a rear flank downdraft. No injuries occurred. This report came from the Spotter Network.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindScotia$25,000Wind gusts were estimated at 60 MPH. A shed was damaged when its roof was blown off and one wall fell, and a picnic shelter roof at the park was destroyed. Crop damage was also reported in the area.
May 2012HailScotia$25,000no account filed
June 2011HailScotia$25,000no account filed
June 2006HailScotia$10,000no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindScotia$10,000no account filed
May 1998HailScotia$10,000no account filed
June 1998HailScotia$10,000no account filed
June 1998HailScotia$5,000no account filed
May 2023Thunderstorm WindScotia$1,000Wind gusts estimated to be near 65 MPH resulted in some tree damage in Scotia and minor damage to a small backyard shed.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindScotia$1,000no account filed
April 2013Heavy RainScotia-A total of 3.41 inches of rain fell. This was a 24-hour rainfall amount as of 7 am CDT. This report was relayed through the Nebraska Rainfall Assessment and Information network.
October 2013Heavy RainScotia-A rainfall total of 3.16 inches occurred. Penny size hail also fell around 630 pm CDT. The time of the hail is estimated by radar data and other nearby reports.
October 2013Heavy RainScotia-A rainfall total of 3.16 inches occurred.
July 2017HailScotia-no account filed
September 2015HailScotia-no account filed
September 2014HailScotia-no account filed
May 2012HailScotia-no account filed
September 2012HailScotia-no account filed
May 2011HailScotia-no account filed
September 2010HailScotia-no account filed
June 2010HailScotia-no account filed
June 2003HailScotia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greeley 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
Scotia Junction1.1 miles12
Horace5.5 miles11
Greeley10.7 miles11
Brayton12.0 miles13
O'Connor12.5 miles10
Belfast12.7 miles11
Wolbach17.1 miles13
Spalding23.7 miles11

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 ScotiaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3460978The 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 833310. 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.