Venango, Nebraska
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in District 3. It lies in ZIP code area 69168. The Survey maps it on the Venango quadrangle. 157 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,596 feet above sea level.
On record in Venango
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 1 record
Venango Public Schoollisted 2018
Population over time
2 figuresVenango fell from 164 to 157 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 | 164 | |
| 2020 | 157 | -7 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 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.
- 1954 USGS Sterling quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Sterling quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Venango quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Julesburg quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
4 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Venango between 2003 and 2017, burning about 45 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 burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 August 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 13 July 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 14 May 2003 | Debris and open burning | 35 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 31 March 2004 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this place
60 of 63 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Venango in 63 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 42 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado, 3 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2007 | Flash Flood | Venango | $350,000 | Nearly stationary thunderstorms produced heavy rainfall of 4 to 10 inches causing water to flow over roadways mainly west and south of Grant. Water flowed across Highway 23 west of Grant and across numerous secondary roads. Highways were closed and travel was discouraged for much of the county. One home around the Grant Golf Course was inundated with water while many others were saved by sandbags. |
| June 2007 | Flash Flood | Venango | $150,000 | Heavy rainfall occurred on already saturated ground causing additional flash flooding. Roads were washed out in the Kitty Heights area. The railroad tracks west of Grant were under water. Also, the county fairgrounds in Grant were under 2-4 feet of water. |
| July 2011 | Flash Flood | Venango | $50,000 | Heavy rain resulted in three feet of water covering some streets in Venango. Law enforcement reports damage to some residences. |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Venango | $40,000 | Wind damage caused numerous trees down. Tree also down on car. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Venango | $15,000 | Law enforcement reports numerous power lines down just north of Venango. A quonset was also damaged just north of Venango. |
| September 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Venango | $10,000 | Wind gusts estimated at 60 MPH damaged siding and roof on a a house as well as crop damage reported at this location. |
| July 2009 | Hail | Venango | $8,000 | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Venango | $8,000 | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Venango | $5,000 | A powerline was reported down in Venango. Winds estimated at 70 MPH. |
| July 2009 | Hail | Venango | $5,000 | The hail was accompanied by strong winds and damaged many trees. |
| March 2007 | Hail | Venango | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Venango | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Venango | $4,000 | A trained fire department spotter reported an estimated 50 mph winds occurring with the hail. |
| May 2004 | Hail | Venango | $4,000 | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Venango | $4,000 | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Hail | Venango | $1,000 | Sky light in home broken, and wheat crop severely damaged. |
| August 2002 | Tornado (F0) | Venango | $1,000 | The tornado touched down only briefly in open rangeland. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Venango | $1,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew large tree limbs down. |
| July 2024 | Hail | Venango | - | Spotter reported ping pong ball sized hail at this location. |
| May 2021 | Hail | Venango | - | Quarter sized hail and high winds were reported at this location. |
| July 2020 | Tornado (EFU) | Venango | - | Trained weather spotters reported a brief landspout tornado over open range. No damage was found. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Venango | - | Public reported an uprooted tree at this location. |
| May 2017 | Tornado (EF0) | Venango | - | A retired NWS employee witnessed a brief tornado embedded in rain 5 miles west southwest of Brandon. The tornado was visible for less than one minute. No damage was reported. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Venango | - | No significant damage reported from the wind gust. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Venango | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 65 mph. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Venango | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph occurred in Venango. |
| August 2015 | Hail | Venango | - | Small tree branches were also downed. |
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Venango | - | Dime size hail was also reported. |
| October 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Venango | - | No major damage was reported from this wind gust. |
| July 2011 | Hail | Venango | - | Hail covered the ground with the largest stones the size of golf balls. |
| August 2011 | Hail | Venango | - | Ping pong and golf ball size hail fell in Venango, while quarter size hail fell 10 miles east of Venango. |
| August 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Venango | - | The tornado touched down and remained in open fields north of Venango. |
| August 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Venango | - | The tornado traveled over open country south of Venango into northern Chase county or 7 miles north of Lamar. The weak tornado did little if any damage. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Venango | - | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Hail | Venango | - | no account filed |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Venango | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Venango | - | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Hail | Venango | - | no account filed |
| July 2018 | Hail | Venango | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Venango | - | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Hail | Venango | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Venango | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Venango | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Venango | - | no account filed |
| August 2012 | Hail | Venango | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Venango | - | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Hail | Venango | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Venango | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Venango | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Venango | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Venango | - | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Hail | Venango | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Venango | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Venango | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Venango | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Venango | - | no account filed |
| September 1999 | Hail | Venango | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Venango | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Venango | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Venango | - | 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 Venango | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q510095 | 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 837273. 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.



