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.
Population over time
2 figuresVerdon 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 172 | |
| 2020 | 164 | -8 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 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.
- 1915 USGS Falls City quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Verdon quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Falls City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
191 words on this townshipThe 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 2003Regional 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 burning | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 July 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 4 April 2009 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 18 April 2007 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 16 April 2009 | Debris and open burning | 60 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 6 March 2009 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 6 March 2009 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 5 March 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,020 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 28 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
16 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1999 | Tornado (F1) | Verdon | $10,000 | Empty mobil home and barn destroyed as well as roof damage to several buildings. |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Verdon | $8,000 | Thunderstorm winds tore corner of a roof off of a home in addition to uprooting several trees. |
| April 2024 | Tornado (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 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Verdon | - | Public personal weather station measured a peak wind gust of 68 mph. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Verdon | - | One inch hail fell for several minutes in the Verdon area. |
| September 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Verdon | - | Thunderstorm winds downed 6 to 8 inch diameter tree limbs in town. |
| May 2001 | Hail | Verdon | - | Hail up to quarter size fell in Verdon for around 12 minutes. |
| May 2001 | Hail | Verdon | - | Hail up to quarter size lasted for 11 minutes southeast of Verdon. |
| March 2017 | Hail | Verdon | - | no account filed |
| April 2017 | Hail | Verdon | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Verdon | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Verdon | - | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Hail | Verdon | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Verdon | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Verdon | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Verdon | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Straussville | 5.0 miles | 11 | |
| Salem | 5.0 miles | 11 | |
| Shubert | 6.3 miles | 11 | |
| Dawson | 6.4 miles | 11 | |
| Stella | 6.7 miles | 11 | |
| Falls City | 8.4 miles | 12 | |
| Barada | 8.6 miles | 12 | |
| Archer (historical) | 8.8 miles | 12 |
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 Verdon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2148941 | 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 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.





