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.
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
Scheider's Opera Houselisted 1988
Population over time
2 figuresSnyder 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 300 | |
| 2020 | 254 | -46 (-15%) |
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 Snyder quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Blair quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
21 since 2002Regional 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 use | 9 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
| 29 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 11 September 2008 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 July 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 5 May 2003 | Smoking | 1.5 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 5 April 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 5 April 2008 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 3 April 2005 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
40 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1998 | Tornado (F1) | Snyder | $500,000 | Several 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 2010 | Flood | Snyder | $100,000 | Several 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 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Snyder | $5,000 | no account filed |
| September 2025 | Hail | Snyder | - | Trained spotter report of hail estimated at 1 inch in diameter. |
| May 2024 | Tornado (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 2024 | Funnel Cloud | Snyder | - | The Snyder Fire Department reported a funnel cloud that passed over the top of the town. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Snyder | - | 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 2022 | Hail | Snyder | - | Public reported 1.5 inch hail via social media. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Snyder | - | Personal weather station measured a peak wind gust of 72 mph. |
| August 2021 | Hail | Snyder | - | Public report from mping of 1-inch hail. |
| August 2020 | Hail | Snyder | - | Law enforcement reported 1 inch hail. |
| June 2018 | Funnel Cloud | Snyder | - | A distinct brief funnel cloud was sighted near Snyder. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Snyder | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at close to 60 mph downed a large tree branch on the north side of town. |
| May 2008 | Flood | Snyder | - | 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 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Snyder | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 to 70 mph flattened corn near Snyder. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Snyder | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph downed several trees around the Snyder area causing some damage to a few buildings and other structures. |
| May 2005 | Hail | Snyder | - | The hail covered the ground. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Snyder | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph broke some large tree branches near Snyder. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Snyder | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated at 65 mph by emergency management. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Snyder | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts blew the roof off of a grain bin and downed several trees around Snyder. |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Snyder | - | 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 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Snyder | - | Small trees were damaged by thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Snyder | - | One home lost a roof. Grain bins were blown over. |
| July 1997 | Flash Flood | Snyder | - | Rainfall of 2 to 3 inches in a short time flooded many county roads and forced the Maple Creek out of its banks. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Snyder | - | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Hail | Snyder | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Snyder | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Snyder | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Snyder | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Snyder | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Snyder | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Snyder | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Snyder | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Flash Flood | Snyder | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Snyder | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Snyder | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Snyder | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Snyder | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Snyder | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Snyder | - | 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 Snyder | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2803895 | 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 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.




