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Terrytown, Nebraska

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Gering City. It lies in ZIP code area 69341. The Survey maps it on the Scottsbluff South quadrangle. 1,057 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,875 feet above sea level.

Terrytown within Scotts Bluff County

On record in Terrytown

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 within a mile 3 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Terrytown fell from 1,198 to 1,057 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
20101,198
20201,057-141 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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

281 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 281 fires within 5 miles of Terrytown between 1993 and 2020, burning about 636 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 13 were 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 burning123
Missing data/not specified/undetermined46
Fireworks41
Equipment and vehicle use19
Smoking16
Arson/incendiarism13
Natural8
Recreation and ceremony5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Misuse of fire by a minor3

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
9 September 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2011Debris and open burning4.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
15 September 1993Smokingunder an acreScotts Bluff National MonumentBIKE TRAIL
14 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
11 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scotts Bluff County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Terrytown: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gritzfeld Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Riverview Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Scottsbluff Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Scotts Bluff County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Terrytown in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2013: 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2013HailTerrytown-Quarter size hail was reported just west of Scottsbluff.
June 2012HailTerrytown-Quarter to golf ball sized hail was observed. There was window damage at the spotter's house.

Every storm recorded in Scotts Bluff 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
Scottsbluff1.4 miles14
Gering1.5 miles14
Hillerage3.2 miles13
Heldt3.6 miles14
Costin3.9 miles14
Covert4.4 miles14
Trout4.6 miles13
Haig5.6 miles14

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 TerrytownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2346049The 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 834068. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.