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Snyder, Nebraska

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Pebble Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68057. The Survey maps it on the Snyder quadrangle. 254 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,342 feet above sea level.

Snyder within Dodge County

On record in Snyder

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

Snyder fell from 300 to 254 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
2010300
2020254-46 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

21 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Snyder between 2002 and 2018, burning about 81 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 use9
Debris and open burning8
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
5 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
11 September 2008Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
7 July 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
5 May 2003Smoking1.5 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
5 April 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
5 April 2008Debris and open burning20 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
3 April 2005Debris and open burning10 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dodge County

Storms near this place

40 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Snyder in 40 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 19 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 tornado. 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 1998Tornado (F1)Snyder$500,000Several outbuildings and grain bins destroyed. A house was destroyed. A machine shed destroyed. A chimney was blown off the back porch of a house. Hog barn destroyed.
June 2010FloodSnyder$100,000Several periods of heavy rain fell across the Pebble Creek basin from June 8th through the 14th which produced a prolonged period of high water and flooding along Pebble Creek near and west of Scribner. The high water flooded and closed sections of Highways 275 and 91 near town as well as county roads and farmland in the area. Pebble Creek near Scribner crested at just over 23 feet during the late afternoon of June 10th, flood stage is 18 feet. The creek near Scribner was above flood stage most of the period from around noon on the 10th until late in the afternoon on June 12th, although a few times during this stretch the creek dropped below flood stage.
June 1996Thunderstorm WindSnyder$5,000no account filed
September 2025HailSnyder-Trained spotter report of hail estimated at 1 inch in diameter.
May 2024Tornado (EF0)Snyder-A brief tornado developed just south of Prenzlow Meat Factor, damaging outbuilding and both snapping and uprooting pine trees. The tornado continued east, flipping and mangling a center pivot before dissipating. The peak winds in this tornado were estimated to be 85 miles per hour. The maximum width of the tornado was measured to be 75 yards with the average width estimated to be 30 yards.
May 2024Funnel CloudSnyder-The Snyder Fire Department reported a funnel cloud that passed over the top of the town.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindSnyder-An intense corridor of straight-line wind damage occurred in the town of Snyder just before 2 AM on the morning of 5/24. A damage survey in the town reveals numerous large trees snapped and uprooted through the town. Several power poles were also snapped on the east side of town. An EF-0 tornado developed just east of town embedded in the broader swath of straight-line wind damage.
April 2022HailSnyder-Public reported 1.5 inch hail via social media.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindSnyder-Personal weather station measured a peak wind gust of 72 mph.
August 2021HailSnyder-Public report from mping of 1-inch hail.
August 2020HailSnyder-Law enforcement reported 1 inch hail.
June 2018Funnel CloudSnyder-A distinct brief funnel cloud was sighted near Snyder.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindSnyder-Thunderstorm winds estimated at close to 60 mph downed a large tree branch on the north side of town.
May 2008FloodSnyder-Heavy rainfall during the evening of May 29th caused Pebble Creek to flood from its mouth with the Elkhorn River near Scribner upstream to north of Snyder and then into Cuming county. Pebble Creek at Scribner reached 24.7 feet around 6am CDT on May 30th, flood stage is 18 feet. The creek at Scribner was above flood stage for about 16 hours from late on the 29th until mid afternoon on the 30th. The flooding closed county roads in the area and also flooded farmland. The crest at Scribner was one of the highest on record. Flooding was also observed along a tributary of Pebble Creek in the Dodge area closing a highway spur into town.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindSnyder-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 to 70 mph flattened corn near Snyder.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindSnyder-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph downed several trees around the Snyder area causing some damage to a few buildings and other structures.
May 2005HailSnyder-The hail covered the ground.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindSnyder-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph broke some large tree branches near Snyder.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindSnyder-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated at 65 mph by emergency management.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindSnyder-Thunderstorm wind gusts blew the roof off of a grain bin and downed several trees around Snyder.
April 2002Thunderstorm WindSnyder-From the same storm complex that produced the wind damage near Howells in Colfax county. These thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated by the Emergency Manager of Dodge county.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindSnyder-Small trees were damaged by thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindSnyder-One home lost a roof. Grain bins were blown over.
July 1997Flash FloodSnyder-Rainfall of 2 to 3 inches in a short time flooded many county roads and forced the Maple Creek out of its banks.
July 2008HailSnyder-no account filed
March 2007HailSnyder-no account filed
June 2007HailSnyder-no account filed
March 2006HailSnyder-no account filed
March 2006HailSnyder-no account filed
May 2003HailSnyder-no account filed
May 2003HailSnyder-no account filed
May 2001HailSnyder-no account filed
June 1998HailSnyder-no account filed
June 1997Flash FloodSnyder-no account filed
June 1997HailSnyder-no account filed
June 1996HailSnyder-no account filed
June 1996HailSnyder-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindSnyder-no account filed
June 1996HailSnyder-no account filed
June 1996HailSnyder-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dodge 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
Crowell4.6 miles8
Glencoe (historical)4.7 miles8
Dodge5.1 miles8
Scribner7.0 miles8
Webster7.4 miles8
Hooper14.3 miles8
Uehling15.2 miles8
Winslow16.4 miles8

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 SnyderAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2803895The 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 833522. 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.