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Virginia, Nebraska

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Sherman Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68458. The Survey maps it on the Lewiston quadrangle. 74 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,529 feet above sea level.

Virginia within Gage County

On record in Virginia

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

Virginia grew from 60 to 74 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
201060
202074+14 (+23%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

12 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Virginia between 2007 and 2009, burning about 724 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
19 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
8 May 2009Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
4 April 2009Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
4 April 2009Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
21 April 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
10 April 2009Debris and open burning15 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
19 March 2007Debris and open burning275 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
18 March 2007Debris and open burning125 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gage County

Storms near this place

13 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Virginia in 13 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 2001Tornado (F2)Virginia2 hurt, $400,000A tornado caused extensive damage in Virginia with most of the damage occurring along a 4 block long and 1 block wide stretch through the center of town. One house was almost completely destroyed causing minor injuries to 2 people living there. Six other homes and businesses sustained extensive damage, and trees and other debris were scattered all over the community.
June 2023HailVirginia-Trained spotter reported 1-inch hail and a tree uprooted.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindVirginia-Trained spotter reported 1-inch hail and a tree uprooted.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindVirginia-Gage County emergency manager reported center pivot flipped over.
May 2020Funnel CloudVirginia-Storm chaser reported funnel cloud via social media with video.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindVirginia-The public estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of 70 mph.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindVirginia-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 70 mph blew a wood shed and grain bin a quarter of a mile. Several other out buildings were flattened or heavily destroyed by the winds, and some crops were flattened according to reports by emergency management.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindVirginia-Thunderstorm wind gust estimated at around 60 mph by a spotter. Tree limbs were downed.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindVirginia-Semi truck blown over.
April 2008HailVirginia-no account filed
April 2006HailVirginia-no account filed
July 2006HailVirginia-no account filed
August 2005HailVirginia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gage 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
Filley3.4 miles11
Rockford5.5 miles11
Holmesville9.1 miles10
Liberty11.1 miles11
Blue Springs11.3 miles10
Badger12.1 miles10
Wymore12.2 miles10
Beatrice13.3 miles11

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 VirginiaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2207776The 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 834395. 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.