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.
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.
Tri-State Land Company Headquarters Buildinglisted 1997 · 0.8 miles away
Lincoln Hotellisted 1998 · 0.9 miles away
Fontenelle Apartment Houselisted 1998 · 1.0 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresTerrytown 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,198 | |
| 2020 | 1,057 | -141 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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.
- 1898 USGS Scotts Bluff quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Scottsbluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Scottsbluff quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Scottsbluff South quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Scottsbluff quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
281 since 1993Regional 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 burning | 123 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 46 |
| Fireworks | 41 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 19 |
| Smoking | 16 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 13 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 4 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 19 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 15 September 1993 | Smoking | under an acre | Scotts Bluff National Monument | BIKE TRAIL |
| 14 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 11 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gritzfeld Pit & Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Riverview Pit & Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Scottsbluff Pit & Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 2012Regional 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.
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 Terrytown | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2346049 | 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 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.




