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Verdon, Nebraska

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Liberty precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68457. It stands on Sardine Creek. The Survey maps it on the Verdon quadrangle. 164 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 968 feet above sea level.

Verdon within Richardson County

Population over time

2 figures

Verdon fell from 172 to 164 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
2010172
2020164-8 (-5%)

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.

In the county-history sources

191 words on this township

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Liberty Precinct. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Liberty Precinct - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Fires near this place

13 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Verdon between 2003 and 2020, burning about 1,198 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 burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
16 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
4 April 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
18 April 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
16 April 2009Debris and open burning60 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 March 2009Debris and open burning3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 March 2009Debris and open burning5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
5 March 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,020 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
28 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Richardson County

Storms near this place

16 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Verdon in 16 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 10 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. 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
April 1999Tornado (F1)Verdon$10,000Empty mobil home and barn destroyed as well as roof damage to several buildings.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindVerdon$8,000Thunderstorm winds tore corner of a roof off of a home in addition to uprooting several trees.
April 2024Tornado (EFU)Verdon-The Emergency Manager called reporting a tornado touchdown approximately two miles north of Salem, Nebraska. No damage was found nor video evidence taken by those in the area.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindVerdon-Public personal weather station measured a peak wind gust of 68 mph.
June 2009HailVerdon-One inch hail fell for several minutes in the Verdon area.
September 2002Thunderstorm WindVerdon-Thunderstorm winds downed 6 to 8 inch diameter tree limbs in town.
May 2001HailVerdon-Hail up to quarter size fell in Verdon for around 12 minutes.
May 2001HailVerdon-Hail up to quarter size lasted for 11 minutes southeast of Verdon.
March 2017HailVerdon-no account filed
April 2017HailVerdon-no account filed
June 2010HailVerdon-no account filed
July 2008HailVerdon-no account filed
March 2007HailVerdon-no account filed
June 2000HailVerdon-no account filed
August 1997Thunderstorm WindVerdon-no account filed
May 1996HailVerdon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Richardson 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
Straussville5.0 miles11
Salem5.0 miles11
Shubert6.3 miles11
Dawson6.4 miles11
Stella6.7 miles11
Falls City8.4 miles12
Barada8.6 miles12
Archer (historical)8.8 miles12

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 VerdonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2148941The 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 834367. 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.