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Trumbull, Nebraska

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Leicester Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68980. The Survey maps it on the Trumbull quadrangle. 194 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,880 feet above sea level.

Trumbull within Clay County

Population over time

2 figures

Trumbull fell from 205 to 194 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
2010205
2020194-11 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

4 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Trumbull between 2004 and 2020, 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
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
6 June 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
28 May 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
14 April 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
8 March 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

23 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Trumbull in 23 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 12 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 flash flood. 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
July 2021Thunderstorm WindTrumbull$5,000,000Wind gusts estimated to be near 95 MPH occurred along this path. The main reports of damage came from the Harvard and Sutton areas. Widespread tree damage was reported, along with large areas of flattened crops. Minor roof damage occurred in Sutton. Numerous power outages were reported. Emergency management reported multiple irrigation pivots overturned in the area, along with 3 large grain bins destroyed and an outbuilding damaged along N Road near Harvard.
June 2022HailTrumbull$1,000,000Hail as large as tennis balls was reported in Trumbull.
June 2015FloodTrumbull$250,000Multiple rounds of heavy rainfall totaled generally 4-7 across much of Clay County between the 3rd-6th, with the majority of this rain falling on the 4th-5th. Localized road flooding was initially reported across parts of the county on the evening of the 4th. Over the next few days, the main story turned to the West Fork Big Blue River and its smaller stream tributaries in the northern part of the county, as the cumulative effects of multiple rounds of heavy rain resulted in significant flooding, mainly on the 5th-6th. Reports indicated that this may have been some the worst flooding observed along the west fork Big Blue in 50-80 years. A few days of warm and dry weather settled in from June 7-9, allowing flood waters to largely recede.
December 2021Tornado (EF0)Trumbull$150,000This tornado touched down in extreme northeast Adams County south of Trumbull, crossed through far northwest Clay County before heading into southwest Hamilton County. This intermittent tornado damaged a horse barn south of Trumbull as it began its roughly seven-mile path. As it moved northeast, most of the observable damage was to a couple of irrigation pivots along with a snapped tree. The estimated maximum wind gust was 75 MPH.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindTrumbull$100,000A line of thunderstorms with damaging wind gusts up to 80 MPH moved across the county. A large tree, with a diameter of approximately 20 inches, was downed in Trumbull.
June 2021HailTrumbull$100,000no account filed
May 2019FloodTrumbull$50,000Heavy rainfall resulted in widespread flooding across much of Clay County. School Creek, the Big Blue and West Fork of the Big Blue Rivers were all out of their banks. The town of Sutton was affected by the flooding of the School Creek, and Highway 6 just south-southeast of Saronville was closed due to water over the road. Numerous rural roads and bridges were under water.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindTrumbull$50,000no account filed
June 2014HailTrumbull$25,000Ping pong to golf ball size hail was reported.
May 1998HailTrumbull$20,000no account filed
May 2016HailTrumbull$15,000no account filed
July 2020Thunderstorm WindTrumbull$10,000Wind gusts estimated to be 60 to 70 MPH resulted in tree damage across Trumbull, with a few limbs ending up on homes. Power lines were also downed. Doors to the highway department's building were damaged, trapping equipment inside.
July 2008Flash FloodTrumbull$10,000Roads X and Y north of Sutton were closed due to water running over the roads. Rainfall reports across northern Clay County were as high as 6 inches.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindTrumbull$5,000Some tree branches were downed in Trumbull, with power outages also reported.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindTrumbull$5,000Wind gusts estimated to be near 60 MPH resulted in minor tree damage in town.
June 2008HailTrumbull$5,000no account filed
June 1998HailTrumbull$5,000no account filed
October 2013Heavy RainTrumbull-A rainfall total of 4.75 inches occurred.
May 2019HailTrumbull-no account filed
June 2017HailTrumbull-no account filed
April 2015HailTrumbull-no account filed
April 2014HailTrumbull-no account filed
May 1996HailTrumbull-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Inland6.3 miles12
Harvard10.2 miles12
Glenvil12.1 miles13
Eldorado14.7 miles15
Anan15.4 miles11
Clay Center15.9 miles12
Verona18.5 miles15
Saronville18.6 miles15

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 TrumbullAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2779586The 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 834189. 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.