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Stromsburg, Nebraska

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in West Stromsburg precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68666. It stands on Prairie Creek. The Survey maps it on the Stromsburg quadrangle. 1,143 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,677 feet above sea level.

Stromsburg within Polk County

On record in Stromsburg

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

Stromsburg fell from 1,171 to 1,143 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
20101,171
20201,143-28 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

7 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Stromsburg between 2008 and 2019, burning about 47 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
Debris and open burning4
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
8 June 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
4 June 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
10 June 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
8 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 April 2008Equipment and vehicle use30 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
9 March 2008Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
18 November 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined13 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Storms near this place

36 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stromsburg in 36 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 17 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 3 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
April 2024Thunderstorm WindStromsburg$100,000The roof was blown off of a building used for 190 head of cattle...unfortunately one died and a few others were injured. Other outbuildings at the farmstead suffered minor damage. Wind gusts were estimated to have been near 75 MPH.
July 2014HailStromsburg$100,000Quarter size hail was accompanied by 60 MPH winds.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindStromsburg$100,000Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH and accompanied quarter size hail.
June 2002HailStromsburg$100,000no account filed
June 1998HailStromsburg$100,000no account filed
March 2006Thunderstorm WindStromsburg$50,000no account filed
May 2021Tornado (EF0)Stromsburg$45,000This tornado moved north-northwest across a farmstead just south of Highway 66 and then crossed the highway southwest of Stromsburg. It dissipated a little farther north of the highway. The tornado upset a horse trailer, damaged shingles on a house, and ripped off the overhead doors from a metal building.
June 1998HailStromsburg$30,000no account filed
May 2011HailStromsburg$25,000Quarter to golf ball size hail was reported.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindStromsburg$25,000no account filed
August 2007Flash FloodStromsburg$20,000Widespread flooding throughout streets and low lying areas in town.
June 2008HailStromsburg$10,000Nickel to ping pong ball size hail reported.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindStromsburg$10,00060 mph winds from a severe thunderstorm toppled an old garage. The roof fell on a tractor inside the garage.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindStromsburg$5,000no account filed
July 2023Thunderstorm WindStromsburg-A wind gust of 61 MPH was measured by a home weather station located two miles east of Stromsburg.
October 2023Thunderstorm WindStromsburg-Wind gusts estimated to be near 60 MPH resulted in minor tree damage in Stromsburg.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindStromsburg-A wind gust of 58 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located one mile west of Stromsburg.
August 2017Heavy RainStromsburg-A 24-hour precipitation amount of 4.28 inches was recorded 5 miles east-southeast of Stromsburg.
August 2017Heavy RainStromsburg-A 24-hour precipitation amount of 4.37 inches was recorded 1 mile east of Stromsburg.
September 2014Heavy RainStromsburg-Storm total rainfall of 3.39 inches was reported, most falling between 6-9 p.m.
May 2011Tornado (EF0)Stromsburg-No damage was caused by this brief tornado touchdown.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindStromsburg-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
May 2005Tornado (F0)Stromsburg-A tornado was reported and photographed by a group of storm chasers near Stromsburg. No damage was noted.
April 1994HailStromsburg-Golf ball-size hail broke windows in a house.
May 2024HailStromsburg-no account filed
June 2022HailStromsburg-no account filed
May 2019HailStromsburg-no account filed
June 2010HailStromsburg-no account filed
June 2010HailStromsburg-no account filed
June 2008HailStromsburg-no account filed
June 2008HailStromsburg-no account filed
March 2006HailStromsburg-no account filed
September 2006Thunderstorm WindStromsburg-no account filed
June 2005HailStromsburg-no account filed
May 2004HailStromsburg-no account filed
April 1999Thunderstorm WindStromsburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Polk 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
Durant3.8 miles13
Swedehome4.8 miles13
Osceola5.3 miles14
Polk10.1 miles13
Shelby10.7 miles11

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 StromsburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q968965The 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 833862. 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.