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Waco, Nebraska

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Waco precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68460. The Survey maps it on the Waco quadrangle. 296 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,621 feet above sea level.

Waco within York County

Population over time

2 figures

Waco grew from 236 to 296 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
2010236
2020296+60 (+25%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Waco between 2000 and 2017, burning about 4 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
6 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
12 May 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
29 April 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
14 April 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
20 March 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
16 March 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreRainwater Basin Wetland Management DistrictWACO-2
20 February 2009Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
14 February 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreRainwater Basin Wetland Management DistrictWACO-1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in York County

Storms near this place

48 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waco in 48 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 28 hail, 16 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud, 1 lightning. 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 2022Thunderstorm WindWaco$10,000,000Wind gusts in this area were estimated to have peaked near 105 MPH. Damage included a number of overturned irrigation pivots and snapped wooden power poles. A large outbuilding was also damaged, an approximately 60 foot tall concrete silo was toppled, and a grain bin was blown off its foundation and into a nearby field.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindWaco$300,000A heat burst from decaying thunderstorms produced wind gusts over 60 MPH, with a peak gust of 67 MPH measured by a mesonet station located four miles south-southwest of Waco. An NeRain observation comment noted there were irrigation pivots flipped in the area.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindWaco$250,000Wind gusts estimated to be near 75 MPH resulted in overturned irrigation pivots and a barn being damaged.
August 2018HailWaco$250,000no account filed
July 2023HailWaco$150,000no account filed
July 2011Thunderstorm WindWaco$120,000Wind gusts were estimated at 60 to 70 MPH. Numerous tree limbs were blown down in town, some a foot or more in diameter. Approximately 2.5 miles southeast of town, 3 grain bins were destroyed and an irrigation pivot was overturned.
April 2005Flash FloodWaco$100,000no account filed
May 2004LightningWaco$90,000no account filed
May 1998HailWaco$80,000no account filed
July 2020Thunderstorm WindWaco$75,000A wind gust of 65 MPH was recorded by a mesonet station located in Waco. A portable communications tower located 2 miles north of Waco was damaged.
May 2012HailWaco$75,000no account filed
June 2015HailWaco$50,000no account filed
June 2014HailWaco$25,000no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindWaco$25,000no account filed
September 2015HailWaco$15,000no account filed
September 2015HailWaco$15,000no account filed
September 2006HailWaco$15,000no account filed
June 2009HailWaco$10,000no account filed
June 2001HailWaco$10,000no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindWaco$500no account filed
July 2020Thunderstorm WindWaco-A wind gust of 64 MPH was recorded by a mesonet station located in Waco.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindWaco-A 61 MPH wind gust was measured by a mesonet station located approximately one-half mile east of Waco.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindWaco-A 64 MPH wind gust was measured by a mesonet station located in Waco.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindWaco-Heavy pea size hail occurred along with estimated 60 mph winds occurred at mile marker 359 on Interstate 80.
April 2009HailWaco-Penny size hail reported near Interstate 80.
July 2004Funnel CloudWaco-A funnel cloud was observed northeast of Waco.
July 2024HailWaco-no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindWaco-no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindWaco-no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindWaco-no account filed
June 2017HailWaco-no account filed
April 2015HailWaco-no account filed
June 2014HailWaco-no account filed
July 2014HailWaco-no account filed
May 2012HailWaco-no account filed
June 2010HailWaco-no account filed
April 2006HailWaco-no account filed
April 2005HailWaco-no account filed
April 2005HailWaco-no account filed
April 2005Funnel CloudWaco-no account filed
May 2005HailWaco-no account filed
April 2002Thunderstorm WindWaco-no account filed
May 1996HailWaco-no account filed
May 1996HailWaco-no account filed
May 1996HailWaco-no account filed
August 1994HailWaco-no account filed
August 1994Thunderstorm WindWaco-no account filed
April 1994HailWaco-no account filed

Every storm recorded in York 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
Houston4.3 miles16
Thayer5.3 miles14
York7.1 miles15
Mapps8.3 miles16
Knox8.8 miles15
Gresham9.6 miles11
Benedict10.7 miles13
McCool Junction12.7 miles15

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 WacoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3289023The 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 834415. 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.