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.
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
Belle Prairie Township Hall & Strang Town Hall-Jaillisted 1991
Strang School District No. 36listed 1992
Population over time
2 figuresStrang 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 29 | |
| 2020 | 30 | +1 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 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.
- 1898 USGS Hebron quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Strang quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Fairbury quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
13 since 2008Regional 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 burning | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 19 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 8 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 3 July 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 20 July 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 2 July 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 22 June 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 12 May 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
21 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2016 | Flash Flood | Strang | $150,000 | Rainfall 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 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strang | $125,000 | Wind 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 2003 | Heavy Rain | Strang | $100,000 | Heavy rainfall in the southern part of Fillmore county forced water over the highway in Strang. Low lying fields were inundated with water. |
| April 2005 | Hail | Strang | $100,000 | no account filed |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strang | $50,000 | Wind 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 2007 | Flash Flood | Strang | $50,000 | Widspread flooding in southeast Fillmore County. |
| June 2006 | Hail | Strang | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strang | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Strang | $15,000 | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strang | $10,000 | Some tree damage reported across town. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strang | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strang | - | A wind gust of 58 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located one mile north-northwest of Strang. |
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strang | - | A wind gust of 62 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located four miles north-northwest of Strang. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strang | - | A wind gust of 60 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located one mile north-northwest of Strang. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strang | - | A wind gust of 58 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located three miles south-southeast of Strang. |
| October 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strang | - | A wind gust of 58 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located 3 miles east of Strang. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strang | - | Wind gusts were estimated at 65 MPH, with tree limbs as large as 1 foot in diameter knocked down. |
| May 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strang | - | Thunderstorm winds damaged a garage. A two by four board from this garage pierced the siding of the house on the same property. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strang | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Strang | - | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Strang | - | 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 Strang | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3228062 | 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 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.





