Tamora, Nebraska
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Precinct F. It lies in ZIP code area 68434. The Survey maps it on the Staplehurst quadrangle. 44 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,555 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresTamora fell from 51 to 44 between 1990 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 51 | |
| 2010 | 58 | +7 (+14%) |
| 2020 | 44 | -14 (-24%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 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.
- 1934 USGS Seward quadrangle1:48000
- 1939 USGS Seward quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Staplehurst quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS York quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Tamora between 2004 and 2009, burning about 6 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 |
|---|---|
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 3 December 2009 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 12 October 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tamora in 9 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tamora | - | Public report received via social media of power poles down near Tamora, NE. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tamora | - | Public reported an overturned irrigation pivot. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tamora | - | Public reported power lines down and power out. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tamora | - | Public reported garage roof partially blown off. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Tamora | - | Hail up to half dollar-size fell for a little over 5 minutes near Tamora. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tamora | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 70 mph blew a well constructed shed down 5 miles west of Seward. |
| August 2018 | Hail | Tamora | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Tamora | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Tamora | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Goehner | 4.3 miles | 15 | |
| Marysville (historical) | 5.1 miles | 14 | |
| Staplehurst | 6.3 miles | 14 | |
| Utica | 6.4 miles | 14 | |
| Seward | 6.7 miles | 14 | |
| Beaver Crossing | 8.5 miles | 14 | |
| Ruby | 9.0 miles | 15 | |
| Riverside Park | 11.8 miles | 15 |
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 Tamora | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2843561 | 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 834027. 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.






