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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.

Spalding within Greeley County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Spalding 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.

YearPeople Change
2010487
2020408-79 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 11 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

4 since 2003

Regional 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 use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
15 April 2003Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
31 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
5 December 2006Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
5 November 2014Equipment and vehicle use40 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Greeley County

Storms near this place

41 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2012HailSpalding$1,000,000Hail 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 2012HailSpalding$500,000no account filed
May 2023Tornado (EF1)Spalding$300,000This 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 2011Thunderstorm WindSpalding$160,000Wind 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 2004HailSpalding$50,000no account filed
April 2003Tornado (F0)Spalding$40,000Another tornado set down west of Spalding and overturned a brand new center irrigation pivot in its path.
June 2014HailSpalding$25,000A trained spotter reported golf ball sized hail fell in Spalding.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindSpalding$25,000A tree fell onto an SUV. This report was received via social media.
May 2012HailSpalding$25,000no account filed
May 2022Thunderstorm WindSpalding$10,000Wind 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 2022Thunderstorm WindSpalding$10,000An NeRain observation comment noted that very strong winds resulted in tree and crop damage in the area.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindSpalding$10,000no account filed
May 1999HailSpalding$10,000no account filed
June 2011HailSpalding$5,000no account filed
June 2008HailSpalding$5,000no account filed
July 2008Thunderstorm WindSpalding$5,000no account filed
May 2007HailSpalding$5,000no account filed
July 2000HailSpalding$5,000no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindSpalding$3,000Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH. Tree branches were downed in town.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindSpalding-Tree approximately one foot in diameter was snapped in town.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindSpalding-Wind gusts were estimated to be near 70 MPH, causing tree damage in town.
June 2014HailSpalding-Dime to nickel size hail was reported.
August 2013HailSpalding-This public report was relayed by local media.
May 2012Heavy RainSpalding-A 24 hour rainfall total of 3.28 inches was reported southwest of Spalding by a Nebraska Rainfall Assessment and Information Network Observer.
May 2011Heavy RainSpalding-Storm total rainfall of 3.74 inches was reported by a NeRAIN observer.
May 2011Heavy RainSpalding-Storm total rainfall of 3.01 inches was reported by a NeRAIN observer.
July 2017HailSpalding-no account filed
September 2014HailSpalding-no account filed
September 2014HailSpalding-no account filed
May 2012HailSpalding-no account filed
June 2011HailSpalding-no account filed
June 2011HailSpalding-no account filed
June 2011HailSpalding-no account filed
August 2009HailSpalding-no account filed
August 2009HailSpalding-no account filed
June 2008HailSpalding-no account filed
June 2003HailSpalding-no account filed
July 2002HailSpalding-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindSpalding-no account filed
July 1995HailSpalding-no account filed
August 1994HailSpalding-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greeley 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
Greeley13.1 miles11
O'Connor13.6 miles10
Belfast13.9 miles11
Brayton16.7 miles13
Horace19.3 miles11
Wolbach20.2 miles13
Scotia23.7 miles12
Scotia Junction24.7 miles12

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 SpaldingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2674312The 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.