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.
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
- Bloody Run Bridgelisted 1992
Population over time
2 figuresVirginia 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 60 | |
| 2020 | 74 | +14 (+23%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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.
- 1955 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Lewiston quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Beatrice quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
12 since 2007Regional 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 burning | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 8 May 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 4 April 2009 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 4 April 2009 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 21 April 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 10 April 2009 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 19 March 2007 | Debris and open burning | 275 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 18 March 2007 | Debris and open burning | 125 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
13 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2001 | Tornado (F2) | Virginia | 2 hurt, $400,000 | A 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 2023 | Hail | Virginia | - | Trained spotter reported 1-inch hail and a tree uprooted. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Virginia | - | Trained spotter reported 1-inch hail and a tree uprooted. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Virginia | - | Gage County emergency manager reported center pivot flipped over. |
| May 2020 | Funnel Cloud | Virginia | - | Storm chaser reported funnel cloud via social media with video. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Virginia | - | The public estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of 70 mph. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Virginia | - | 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 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Virginia | - | Thunderstorm wind gust estimated at around 60 mph by a spotter. Tree limbs were downed. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Virginia | - | Semi truck blown over. |
| April 2008 | Hail | Virginia | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Virginia | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Virginia | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Virginia | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Filley | 3.4 miles | 11 | |
| Rockford | 5.5 miles | 11 | |
| Holmesville | 9.1 miles | 10 | |
| Liberty | 11.1 miles | 11 | |
| Blue Springs | 11.3 miles | 10 | |
| Badger | 12.1 miles | 10 | |
| Wymore | 12.2 miles | 10 | |
| Beatrice | 13.3 miles | 11 |
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 Virginia | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2207776 | 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 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.




