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Shelton, Nebraska

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Precinct 24. It lies in ZIP code area 68876. The Survey maps it on the Shelton quadrangle. 1,034 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,018 feet above sea level.

Shelton within Buffalo County

On record in Shelton

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

Population over time

2 figures

Shelton fell from 1,059 to 1,034 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
20101,059
20201,034-25 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

What the histories say of this town

6,873 words

1 chapter about Shelton from the published histories of the county, public domain and reproduced complete.

ChapterFrom Length
Buffalo County, Nebraska, and Its People : a Record of Settlement, OrgBuffalo County, Nebraska, and Its People : a Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement (1916)6,873 words

Fires near this place

18 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Shelton between 2007 and 2019, burning about 181 acres in total. 2 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 burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
2 August 2012Natural54 acresRainwater Basin Wetland Management DistrictBROOKS TRACT
7 June 2007Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
11 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
1 June 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
18 May 2010Naturalunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
17 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
22 April 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution41 acresRainwater Basin Wetland Management DistrictHANNON POLE FIRE
15 April 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Buffalo County

Storms near this place

38 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shelton in 38 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 17 hail, 16 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 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
March 2019FloodShelton$2,000,000no account filed
July 2014HailShelton$1,000,000Golf ball size hail was reported at the Shelton exit of Interstate 80.
June 2006HailShelton$500,000no account filed
June 2009Thunderstorm WindShelton$250,000Wind gusts of 65 to 75 mph were reported. Reports included damage to power lines and transformers, large branches down, metal building and billboard destroyed.
July 2002HailShelton$250,000no account filed
July 2002HailShelton$150,000no account filed
June 2021HailShelton$100,000Hail up to 2 inches in diameter was reported.
June 2022HailShelton$100,000no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindShelton$50,000no account filed
July 1997HailShelton$40,000no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindShelton$30,000no account filed
May 2013HailShelton$25,000no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindShelton$25,000no account filed
May 2005HailShelton$25,000no account filed
May 2002HailShelton$25,000no account filed
April 2001HailShelton$20,000no account filed
June 2018Thunderstorm WindShelton$15,000Severe wind gusts occurred along a line of outflow well ahead and south of a line of thunderstorms to the north. A power line was down from a fallen tree in the community of Shelton. The Buffalo County Emergency Manager estimated the wind gust at 60 MPH. The emergency manager also reported an accident just south on Interstate 80 that was possibly weather related. A nearby observation at the Kearney Airport recorded a measured wind gust of 59 MPH at 1:59 AM CDT at the same time of the wind damage. There was also a public report of an estimated 60 mph wind gust was reported 3 miles south of Gibbon at the Windmill State Recreation Area.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindShelton$15,000no account filed
April 2024Thunderstorm WindShelton$10,000A large tree fell onto a garage, damaging the roof.
June 2010Flash FloodShelton$10,000no account filed
June 2008HailShelton$5,000no account filed
April 2024Thunderstorm WindShelton-A wind gust of 61 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located six miles north-northwest of Shelton.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindShelton-Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH, resulting in some minor tree damage in Shelton.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindShelton-Wind gusts estimated to be at least 75 MPH resulted in the derailment of approximately 15 rail cars on the westbound train line located just to the southwest of Shelton. Train traffic on both lines had to be stopped.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindShelton-A wind gust of 58 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located six miles north-northwest of Shelton.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindShelton-A wind gust of 60 MPH was measured by a Nebraska DOT mesonet station located on Interstate 80 at the Shelton exit.
March 2013Tornado (EF0)Shelton-A brief landspout tornado was reported just south of Shelton and just north of Interstate 80. No damage was reported, and top winds were estimated to be between 50 and 60 mph.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindShelton-Large tree limbs were blown down in Shelton, with one falling onto and damaging a vehicle. Crop damage was also reported north of town.
June 2009Tornado (EF0)Shelton-Brief touchdown was reported 3 miles south of Shelton.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindShelton-Winds estimated at 60 mph.
July 2002Tornado (F0)Shelton-An off-duty NWS employee and many other storm spotters witnessed the tornado north of Shelton. No significant damage was reported from the tornado itself as it bounced along the ground.
June 2024HailShelton-no account filed
August 2022HailShelton-no account filed
June 2014HailShelton-no account filed
May 2007HailShelton-no account filed
September 2007Thunderstorm WindShelton-no account filed
May 2006HailShelton-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindShelton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Buffalo 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
Denman5.5 miles15
Gibbon6.4 miles16
Buda14.6 miles16
Saint Michael16.9 miles12
Prairie Center18.0 miles16
Nantasket (historical)18.4 miles12
Poole18.8 miles13
Glenwood Park18.8 miles20

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 SheltonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3288895The 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 833382. 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.