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.
Population over time
2 figuresWaco 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 236 | |
| 2020 | 296 | +60 (+25%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 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.
- 1934 USGS Utica quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1937 USGS Utica quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Waco quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS York quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
12 since 2000Regional 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/undetermined | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 June 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 12 May 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 29 April 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 14 April 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 20 March 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 16 March 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Rainwater Basin Wetland Management District | WACO-2 |
| 20 February 2009 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 14 February 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Rainwater Basin Wetland Management District | WACO-1 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
48 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waco | $10,000,000 | Wind 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 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waco | $300,000 | A 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 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waco | $250,000 | Wind gusts estimated to be near 75 MPH resulted in overturned irrigation pivots and a barn being damaged. |
| August 2018 | Hail | Waco | $250,000 | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Hail | Waco | $150,000 | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waco | $120,000 | Wind 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 2005 | Flash Flood | Waco | $100,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Lightning | Waco | $90,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Waco | $80,000 | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waco | $75,000 | A 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 2012 | Hail | Waco | $75,000 | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Waco | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Waco | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waco | $25,000 | no account filed |
| September 2015 | Hail | Waco | $15,000 | no account filed |
| September 2015 | Hail | Waco | $15,000 | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Hail | Waco | $15,000 | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Waco | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Waco | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waco | $500 | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waco | - | A wind gust of 64 MPH was recorded by a mesonet station located in Waco. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waco | - | A 61 MPH wind gust was measured by a mesonet station located approximately one-half mile east of Waco. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waco | - | A 64 MPH wind gust was measured by a mesonet station located in Waco. |
| April 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waco | - | Heavy pea size hail occurred along with estimated 60 mph winds occurred at mile marker 359 on Interstate 80. |
| April 2009 | Hail | Waco | - | Penny size hail reported near Interstate 80. |
| July 2004 | Funnel Cloud | Waco | - | A funnel cloud was observed northeast of Waco. |
| July 2024 | Hail | Waco | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waco | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waco | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waco | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Waco | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Waco | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Waco | - | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Hail | Waco | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Waco | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Waco | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Waco | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Waco | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Waco | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Funnel Cloud | Waco | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Waco | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waco | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Waco | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Waco | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Waco | - | no account filed |
| August 1994 | Hail | Waco | - | no account filed |
| August 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waco | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Waco | - | 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.
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 Waco | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3289023 | 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 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.






