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Strang, Nebraska

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Belle Prairie Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68444. The Survey maps it on the Strang quadrangle. 30 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,621 feet above sea level.

Strang within Fillmore County

On record in Strang

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

Strang grew from 29 to 30 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
201029
202030+1 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

13 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Strang between 2008 and 2018, burning about 5 acres in total. 1 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 burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
3 July 2012Naturalunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
20 July 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
2 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
22 June 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
12 May 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fillmore County

Storms near this place

21 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Strang in 21 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 13 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
May 2016Flash FloodStrang$150,000Rainfall of 3 to 5 inches fell over a short period of time, resulting in flash flooding over portions of Fillmore and Thayer Counties. In Bruning, a storm total amount of 4.35 inches was reported. Local law enforcement reported water running over portions of Highway 14 approximately 4 miles west of Milligan.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindStrang$125,000Wind gusts were estimated at 70 MPH, with damaged reports including 3 empty grain bins blown off their foundation, an unsecured trailer rolled off its foundation, and some irrigation pipe blown from their location.
June 2003Heavy RainStrang$100,000Heavy rainfall in the southern part of Fillmore county forced water over the highway in Strang. Low lying fields were inundated with water.
April 2005HailStrang$100,000no account filed
July 2021Thunderstorm WindStrang$50,000Wind gusts estimated to be near 70 MPH resulted in roof damage at the school building in Strang. Public reported damage to outbuildings and large trees downed in the area. A wind gust of 59 MPH was recorded by a mesonet station located one mile north-northwest of Strang. A wind gust of 62 MPH was recorded by a mesonet station located three miles east of Strang.
August 2007Flash FloodStrang$50,000Widspread flooding in southeast Fillmore County.
June 2006HailStrang$25,000no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindStrang$25,000no account filed
May 2016HailStrang$15,000no account filed
July 2008Thunderstorm WindStrang$10,000Some tree damage reported across town.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindStrang$5,000no account filed
April 2024Thunderstorm WindStrang-A wind gust of 58 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located one mile north-northwest of Strang.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindStrang-A wind gust of 62 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located four miles north-northwest of Strang.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindStrang-A wind gust of 60 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located one mile north-northwest of Strang.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindStrang-A wind gust of 58 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located three miles south-southeast of Strang.
October 2020Thunderstorm WindStrang-A wind gust of 58 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located 3 miles east of Strang.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindStrang-Wind gusts were estimated at 65 MPH, with tree limbs as large as 1 foot in diameter knocked down.
May 1994Thunderstorm WindStrang-Thunderstorm winds damaged a garage. A two by four board from this garage pierced the siding of the house on the same property.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindStrang-no account filed
May 2012HailStrang-no account filed
April 2009HailStrang-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fillmore 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
Martland5.1 miles13
Ohiowa7.1 miles10
Shickley7.2 miles13
Geneva7.7 miles15
Carlisle10.4 miles12
Milligan12.1 miles10
Burress12.3 miles15
Townhall12.4 miles10

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 StrangAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3228062The 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 833854. 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.