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Touhy, Nebraska

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Oak Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68065. The Survey maps it on the Touhy quadrangle. It stands 1,522 feet above sea level.

Touhy within Saunders County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

32 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Touhy between 2008 and 2020, burning about 288 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Debris and open burning10
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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 August 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
9 May 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
9 May 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
23 April 2020Debris and open burning30 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
20 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
18 April 2010Debris and open burning140 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
16 April 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
13 April 2013Debris and open burning20 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saunders County

Storms near this place

11 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Touhy in 11 storm reports between 2008 and 2026: 9 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2025Thunderstorm WindTouhy$1,220,000A severe thunderstorm moved across the southeast portion of Saunders County, Nebraska, generating a swath of damaging straight-line winds on the morning of August 9th, 2025. The strongest reported wind was an estimated gust of 95 mph from an emergency manager in Ithaca at 04:40 CST, associated with the destruction of a barn.||Widespread extensive damage was concentrated in the eastern parts of the county, particularly in and around Yutan, Mead, and near Leshara. In Yutan, public reports indicated damaging winds, estimated as high as 90 to 100 mph, causing widespread tree and powerline damage and tilting power poles into the road. Near Leshara, estimated 90 mph winds caused structural damage including broken home windows and extensive tree damage. In Mead, emergency management confirmed a porch roof was torn off by an estimated 90 mph wind. Earlier in the event, winds estimated around 70-80 mph uprooted a large tree and caused shed roof damage in Memphis.||Additional, lesser wind gusts were measured by public weather stations across the area, ranging from 60 mph to 67 mph. The estimated property damage to public infrastructure from this event is $1,221,581.00. This figure reflects only the costs associated with repairing public assets and does not account for the extensive damage sustained by private and commercial properties throughout Saline County.
March 2026HailTouhy-Public report of hail measured at 2.00 inch in diameter.
April 2026HailTouhy-Public report of hail estimated at 1.00 inch in diameter.
May 2019HailTouhy-This was a public report received via Twitter.
May 2017HailTouhy-Quarter to half dollar size hail was reported.
June 2008HailTouhy-The hail occurred with the supercell thunderstorm that produced 2 tornadoes near Ceresco.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindTouhy-A downburst or series of downbursts uprooted trees and caused other scattered tree and farm outbuilding damage from west of Dwight in Butler county east to the Touhy and Valparaiso areas in Saunders county then across southern Saunders county. The winds were associated with the same supercell thunderstorm that produced a tornado near Dwight and 2 tornadoes in the Ceresco area.
May 2019HailTouhy-no account filed
June 2014HailTouhy-no account filed
June 2014HailTouhy-no account filed
June 2014HailTouhy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Saunders 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
Valparaiso3.6 miles12
Weston6.0 miles11
Swedeburg10.5 miles12
Malmo10.6 miles11
Ceresco10.8 miles11
Wahoo12.0 miles12
Prague12.3 miles11
Rescue (historical)14.8 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 TouhyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17595119The 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 834134. 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.