Scribner, Nebraska
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Scribner City. It lies in ZIP code area 68057. It stands on Cuming Creek. The Survey maps it on the Scribner quadrangle. 843 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,253 feet above sea level.
On record in Scribner
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 2 records
Harder Hotellisted 1989
Scribner Town Halllisted 2010
Population over time
2 figuresScribner fell from 857 to 843 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 | 857 | |
| 2020 | 843 | -14 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1955 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Scribner quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Blair quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
46 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Scribner between 2002 and 2011, burning about 104 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 19 |
| Debris and open burning | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 28 September 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 11 September 2009 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 11 September 2008 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 9 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 12 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 11 August 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 July 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
35 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Scribner in 35 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 14 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 3 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 1996 | Tornado (F1) | Scribner | $300,000 | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Flood | Scribner | $5,000 | A band of 2 to 3 inches of rain fell across the Pebble Creek basin causing it to flood for the second time in around a week. The creek near Scribner reached a crest around 22.3 feet during the afternoon of June 27th, flood stage is 18 feet. The flooding impacted county roads and farmland near the stream. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scribner | - | Trained spotter report of 2diameter tree limbs falling, with an estimated wind speed of 50-60 mph. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Scribner | - | Public reported that it hailed for over 10 minutes. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Scribner | - | Public reported 1 inch hail. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scribner | - | Public reported several trees and powerlines down. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scribner | - | Received multiple reports via social media of trees and large branches down in town. |
| March 2019 | Flood | Scribner | - | This is for flooding along the Elkhorn River. The river gage at Winslow, operated by the Nebraska DNR, peaked at 24.14 feet at 1 am on March 14th. Minor flood stage is 17 feet. Major flood stage is 24 feet. Preliminary this is a record crest. The town of Winslow received extensive damage as their levee was easily overtopped. This river gage stopped reporting around 6 am on March 14th. This was likely due to river ice damaging the gage sensor. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scribner | - | Numerous trees were reported downed in the town of Schribner. There was also some outbuildings destroyed. The entire town was without power for some time. |
| September 2016 | Flood | Scribner | - | Heavy rainfall caused the Pebble Creek to rise into major flood near the town of Scribner. The flooding necessitated the closing of the flood gates that protect the town of Scribner, which also closes US Highway 275 through town. Outside of town significant low-land flooding was observed which closed numerous county roadways. The river crested at 22.35 ft before quickly falling on the 16t. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scribner | - | A spotter estimated thunderstorm wind gusts were around 60 mph. |
| June 2011 | Heavy Rain | Scribner | - | Rainfall of a little over 3 inches was reported in the Scribner area. The rain fell in a several hour period and produced flooding along sections of Maple Creek later that day. |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scribner | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph downed numerous tree limbs and a few trees in the Scribner area. The corner of a roof of a chemical building was also severely damaged. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scribner | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts of around 60 mph flattened some corn east of Scribner and knocked over or uprooted a few trees around the area. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scribner | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph downed a tree southwest of Scribner. |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scribner | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph uprooted several trees and destroyed some farm outbuildings between Scribner and Hooper. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scribner | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph downed numerous power lines and several large tree limbs. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scribner | - | Wind damage was reported from thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at around 60 mph in Scribner. |
| June 2000 | Tornado (F0) | Scribner | - | Brief touchdown of a small tornado caught on film. No damage reported. |
| June 2000 | Flash Flood | Scribner | - | Heavy rain caused flooding around Scribner which briefly closed highway 275. |
| August 1999 | Flash Flood | Scribner | - | Around 5 inches of rain in a 12 hour period ending before midnight caused Mud Creek to flood junction of highways 91 and 275. |
| June 2016 | Hail | Scribner | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Scribner | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Scribner | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Scribner | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Scribner | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Scribner | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Scribner | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Scribner | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Scribner | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Scribner | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scribner | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Scribner | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Flash Flood | Scribner | - | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Hail | Scribner | - | 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 Scribner | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q957966 | 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 833325. 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.




