Spalding, Nebraska
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Spalding precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68665. The Survey maps it on the Spalding quadrangle. 408 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,909 feet above sea level.
On record in Spalding
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 3 records
First Presbyterian Churchlisted 2004
Spalding Power Plant and Damlisted 1998
St. Michael's Catholic Church Complexlisted 1983
Population over time
2 figuresSpalding fell from 487 to 408 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 | 487 | |
| 2020 | 408 | -79 (-16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 11 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.
- 1954 USGS Spalding quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Broken Bow quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1956 USGS Broken Bow quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Ord quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Spalding between 2003 and 2014, burning about 45 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 April 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 31 March 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 5 December 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 5 November 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | 40 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this place
41 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spalding in 41 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 26 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 heavy rain, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2012 | Hail | Spalding | $1,000,000 | Hail the size of hen eggs damaged a law enforcement vehicle. There were also reports from north of Spalding of hail causing roof and siding damage, breaking windows out of homes and buildings, and vehicle damage. |
| April 2012 | Hail | Spalding | $500,000 | no account filed |
| May 2023 | Tornado (EF1) | Spalding | $300,000 | This tornado developed out of a northwestward tracking supercell that was located within a band of supercells that were rotating around a strong low pressure system over central Nebraska. The tornado formed right around 2:25 PM CDT and tracked over open pasture and recently planted fields mainly hitting several pivots and tree lines as it tracked northwest. No homes were impacted by this tornado. The worst damage appeared to be the flipped pivots, snapped cedar trees, and finally damage to at least 2 parked vehicles at the intersection of Highway 91 and Highway 281. The windows were blown out on two vehicles that were parked at this location and two large metal electrical transmission poles were leaning, but still standing at this intersection. After hitting the Highway 91 and 281 intersection the tornado continued onto the northwest over open road-less country across far north central Greeley county where based on video and surveying, it was believed to have lifted just shy of the Greeley/Wheeler County line. The maximum wind gust was estimated to be 105 MPH. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spalding | $160,000 | Wind gusts estimated at 80 MPH knocked over at least 2 irrigation pivots, destroyed a small grain bin and damaged a few power poles and trees. |
| August 2004 | Hail | Spalding | $50,000 | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Spalding | $40,000 | Another tornado set down west of Spalding and overturned a brand new center irrigation pivot in its path. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Spalding | $25,000 | A trained spotter reported golf ball sized hail fell in Spalding. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spalding | $25,000 | A tree fell onto an SUV. This report was received via social media. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Spalding | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spalding | $10,000 | Wind gusts estimated to be near 70 MPH resulted in a metal roof being peeled off of a calving shed approximately one-half mile east of Spalding. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spalding | $10,000 | An NeRain observation comment noted that very strong winds resulted in tree and crop damage in the area. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spalding | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Spalding | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Spalding | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Spalding | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spalding | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Spalding | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Spalding | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spalding | $3,000 | Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH. Tree branches were downed in town. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spalding | - | Tree approximately one foot in diameter was snapped in town. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spalding | - | Wind gusts were estimated to be near 70 MPH, causing tree damage in town. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Spalding | - | Dime to nickel size hail was reported. |
| August 2013 | Hail | Spalding | - | This public report was relayed by local media. |
| May 2012 | Heavy Rain | Spalding | - | A 24 hour rainfall total of 3.28 inches was reported southwest of Spalding by a Nebraska Rainfall Assessment and Information Network Observer. |
| May 2011 | Heavy Rain | Spalding | - | Storm total rainfall of 3.74 inches was reported by a NeRAIN observer. |
| May 2011 | Heavy Rain | Spalding | - | Storm total rainfall of 3.01 inches was reported by a NeRAIN observer. |
| July 2017 | Hail | Spalding | - | no account filed |
| September 2014 | Hail | Spalding | - | no account filed |
| September 2014 | Hail | Spalding | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Spalding | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Spalding | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Spalding | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Spalding | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Spalding | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Spalding | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Spalding | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Spalding | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Spalding | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spalding | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Hail | Spalding | - | no account filed |
| August 1994 | Hail | Spalding | - | 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 Spalding | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2674312 | 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 833638. 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.



