Upland, Nebraska
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Antelope Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68981. The Survey maps it on the Upland quadrangle. 125 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,162 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresUpland fell from 143 to 125 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 | 143 | |
| 2020 | 125 | -18 (-13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 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.
- 1897 USGS Red Cloud quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Grand Island quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Grand Island quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Grand Island quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Upland quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Red Cloud quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
9 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Upland between 2001 and 2016, burning about 50 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 July 2014 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 2 July 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 June 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 21 June 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 16 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 45 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 12 March 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 20 November 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 2 November 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
28 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Upland in 28 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 15 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Upland | $1,500,000 | A line of thunderstorms with damaging wind gusts up to 80 MPH resulted in very large tree branches being downed in Upland, causing power outages. |
| December 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Upland | $50,000 | Straight-line thunderstorm winds blew over a center pivot. |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Upland | $50,000 | Wind gusts estimated at 70 mph resulted in a grain bin being destroyed. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Upland | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Upland | $10,000 | Pea to quarter size hail reported lasting 15 minutes. |
| August 1997 | Hail | Upland | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Upland | $5,000 | no account filed |
| November 2016 | Tornado (EF0) | Upland | - | A combination of reports and a search for damage were used to determine that a short, roughly one minute long tornado occurred. The maximum wind speed was estimated to be 70 MPH. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Upland | - | Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH. |
| April 2014 | Tornado (EF0) | Upland | - | This tornado touched down approximately 2 miles north-northeast of Upland and was on the ground for about 3 minutes. No damage was reported with this tornado. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Upland | - | Hail the size of pennies was also observed. |
| July 2011 | Tornado (EF0) | Upland | - | A brief touchdown was reported approximately 4 miles southwest of Upland. No damage was reported from this tornado. |
| July 2011 | Tornado (EF0) | Upland | - | A second brief touchdown was reported approximately 5 miles southeast of Upland. No damage was reported from this tornado. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Upland | - | Wind gusts were estimated at 60 MPH. |
| August 2011 | Heavy Rain | Upland | - | Storm total rainfall of 3.25 inches was reported by a Nebraska Rainfall Assessment and Information Network observer. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Upland | - | Small hail stripped the corn south of Upland. |
| May 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Upland | - | Thunderstorm winds bent over and broke utility poles and snapped power lines in a one half mile strip southeast of Upland. A stop sing was also ripped off of its post. |
| July 2024 | Hail | Upland | - | no account filed |
| August 2021 | Hail | Upland | - | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Hail | Upland | - | no account filed |
| October 2017 | Hail | Upland | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Upland | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Upland | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Upland | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Upland | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Upland | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Upland | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Upland | - | 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.
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 Upland | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2690959 | 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 834304. 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.





