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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.

Venango within Perkins County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Venango 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.

YearPeople Change
2010164
2020157-7 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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 2003

Regional 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 burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
31 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
13 July 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
14 May 2003Debris and open burning35 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
31 March 2004Debris and open burning5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Perkins County

Storms near this place

60 of 63 shown

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2007Flash FloodVenango$350,000Nearly 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 2007Flash FloodVenango$150,000Heavy 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 2011Flash FloodVenango$50,000Heavy rain resulted in three feet of water covering some streets in Venango. Law enforcement reports damage to some residences.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindVenango$40,000Wind damage caused numerous trees down. Tree also down on car.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindVenango$15,000Law enforcement reports numerous power lines down just north of Venango. A quonset was also damaged just north of Venango.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindVenango$10,000Wind gusts estimated at 60 MPH damaged siding and roof on a a house as well as crop damage reported at this location.
July 2009HailVenango$8,000no account filed
July 2001HailVenango$8,000no account filed
June 2024Thunderstorm WindVenango$5,000A powerline was reported down in Venango. Winds estimated at 70 MPH.
July 2009HailVenango$5,000The hail was accompanied by strong winds and damaged many trees.
March 2007HailVenango$5,000no account filed
July 2001HailVenango$5,000no account filed
July 2009HailVenango$4,000A trained fire department spotter reported an estimated 50 mph winds occurring with the hail.
May 2004HailVenango$4,000no account filed
August 1997HailVenango$4,000no account filed
June 2016HailVenango$1,000Sky light in home broken, and wheat crop severely damaged.
August 2002Tornado (F0)Venango$1,000The tornado touched down only briefly in open rangeland.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindVenango$1,000Thunderstorm winds blew large tree limbs down.
July 2024HailVenango-Spotter reported ping pong ball sized hail at this location.
May 2021HailVenango-Quarter sized hail and high winds were reported at this location.
July 2020Tornado (EFU)Venango-Trained weather spotters reported a brief landspout tornado over open range. No damage was found.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindVenango-Public reported an uprooted tree at this location.
May 2017Tornado (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 2016Thunderstorm WindVenango-No significant damage reported from the wind gust.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindVenango-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 65 mph.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindVenango-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph occurred in Venango.
August 2015HailVenango-Small tree branches were also downed.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindVenango-Dime size hail was also reported.
October 2013Thunderstorm WindVenango-No major damage was reported from this wind gust.
July 2011HailVenango-Hail covered the ground with the largest stones the size of golf balls.
August 2011HailVenango-Ping pong and golf ball size hail fell in Venango, while quarter size hail fell 10 miles east of Venango.
August 1997Tornado (F0)Venango-The tornado touched down and remained in open fields north of Venango.
August 1997Tornado (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 2025Thunderstorm WindVenango-no account filed
July 2024HailVenango-no account filed
June 2023Thunderstorm WindVenango-no account filed
June 2022HailVenango-no account filed
September 2019HailVenango-no account filed
July 2018HailVenango-no account filed
May 2018HailVenango-no account filed
June 2016HailVenango-no account filed
May 2015HailVenango-no account filed
May 2013HailVenango-no account filed
April 2012HailVenango-no account filed
August 2012HailVenango-no account filed
July 2011HailVenango-no account filed
April 2010HailVenango-no account filed
June 2010HailVenango-no account filed
June 2009HailVenango-no account filed
July 2009HailVenango-no account filed
May 2007HailVenango-no account filed
March 2007HailVenango-no account filed
April 2005HailVenango-no account filed
July 2005HailVenango-no account filed
July 2001HailVenango-no account filed
July 2001HailVenango-no account filed
September 1999HailVenango-no account filed
May 1998HailVenango-no account filed
June 1997HailVenango-no account filed
June 1997HailVenango-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Perkins 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
Brandon7.3 miles8
Grant17.6 miles7
Madrid27.0 miles7
Elsie35.0 miles7
Grainton40.1 miles7

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 VenangoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q510095The 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.