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.
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
Charles H. Morrill Homesteadlisted 1973
Victor E. Wilson Houselisted 1988
Population over time
2 figuresStromsburg 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,171 | |
| 2020 | 1,143 | -28 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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.
- 1896 USGS Stromsburg quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Stromsburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS David City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
7 since 2008Regional 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 burning | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 June 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 4 June 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 10 June 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 8 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 6 April 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 30 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 9 March 2008 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 18 November 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
36 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stromsburg | $100,000 | The 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 2014 | Hail | Stromsburg | $100,000 | Quarter size hail was accompanied by 60 MPH winds. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stromsburg | $100,000 | Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH and accompanied quarter size hail. |
| June 2002 | Hail | Stromsburg | $100,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Stromsburg | $100,000 | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stromsburg | $50,000 | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Tornado (EF0) | Stromsburg | $45,000 | This 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 1998 | Hail | Stromsburg | $30,000 | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Stromsburg | $25,000 | Quarter to golf ball size hail was reported. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stromsburg | $25,000 | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Flash Flood | Stromsburg | $20,000 | Widespread flooding throughout streets and low lying areas in town. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Stromsburg | $10,000 | Nickel to ping pong ball size hail reported. |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stromsburg | $10,000 | 60 mph winds from a severe thunderstorm toppled an old garage. The roof fell on a tractor inside the garage. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stromsburg | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stromsburg | - | A wind gust of 61 MPH was measured by a home weather station located two miles east of Stromsburg. |
| October 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stromsburg | - | Wind gusts estimated to be near 60 MPH resulted in minor tree damage in Stromsburg. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stromsburg | - | A wind gust of 58 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located one mile west of Stromsburg. |
| August 2017 | Heavy Rain | Stromsburg | - | A 24-hour precipitation amount of 4.28 inches was recorded 5 miles east-southeast of Stromsburg. |
| August 2017 | Heavy Rain | Stromsburg | - | A 24-hour precipitation amount of 4.37 inches was recorded 1 mile east of Stromsburg. |
| September 2014 | Heavy Rain | Stromsburg | - | Storm total rainfall of 3.39 inches was reported, most falling between 6-9 p.m. |
| May 2011 | Tornado (EF0) | Stromsburg | - | No damage was caused by this brief tornado touchdown. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stromsburg | - | Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph. |
| May 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Stromsburg | - | A tornado was reported and photographed by a group of storm chasers near Stromsburg. No damage was noted. |
| April 1994 | Hail | Stromsburg | - | Golf ball-size hail broke windows in a house. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Stromsburg | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Stromsburg | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Stromsburg | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Stromsburg | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Stromsburg | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Stromsburg | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Stromsburg | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Stromsburg | - | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stromsburg | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Stromsburg | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Stromsburg | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stromsburg | - | 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 Stromsburg | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q968965 | 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 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.





