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Walthill, Nebraska

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Omaha Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68067. It stands on Cow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Walthill quadrangle. 682 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,217 feet above sea level.

Walthill within Thurston County

On record in Walthill

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Walthill fell from 780 to 682 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
2010780
2020682-98 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

119 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Walthill between 1996 and 2020, burning about 3,907 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 24 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
Debris and open burning25
Arson/incendiarism24
Misuse of fire by a minor20
Fireworks17
Smoking10
Equipment and vehicle use10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
3 September 2012Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWinnebago AgencyBIA 378
19 September 2002Smoking45 acresWinnebago AgencyA1302113
18 September 2002Smoking9.0 acresWinnebago AgencyA1302112
1 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use10 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
8 July 2002Fireworks3.0 acresWinnebago AgencyA1302103
7 July 2002Fireworks9.0 acresWinnebago AgencyA1302102
5 July 2002Fireworks9.0 acresWinnebago AgencyA1302101

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Thurston County

Storms near this place

21 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Walthill in 21 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2000Flash FloodWalthill$400,000Four to 8 inches of rain which fell from Sunday morning into the early afternoon hours caused flooding of several roads...mainly in eastern Thurston county. At least 1 road was partially washed out near Walthill, and more than 65 bridges and road culverts were damaged by the storm. The Natural Resources Conservation Service and the Thurston County Road Department estimated that the flooding caused around $400,000 worth of damage.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindWalthill-Emergency management report of straight line winds gusting at 60-65 mph.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindWalthill-Emergency manager reported a large tree down from wind.
March 2019FloodWalthill-A home along South Omaha Creek near Walthill was flooded. The gauge on South Omaha Creek reached a preliminary value of 24.61 feet. Flood totals for the county are included in the entry for Logan Creek Flooding.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindWalthill-The emergency manager estimated winds of 60 mph occurring.
June 2014Tornado (EF1)Walthill-This short lived tornado developed just northwest of the town of Walthill and moved southeast. The tornado impacted 1 farmstead along the short path. Here the tornado removed part of the roof of the home, destroyed out buildings, and uprooted trees.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindWalthill-Some minor damage was done to a home.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindWalthill-Thunderstorm winds estimated at over 60 mph downed power poles and power lines in the area.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindWalthill-Thunderstorm winds estimated at close to 70 mph downed numerous trees which downed power lines in the Walthill area. At least one tree fell on a car causing substantial damage.
July 2009HailWalthill-Hail up to penny-size was reported along with very heavy rain which caused some minor street flooding in town.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindWalthill-Trees were downed by thunderstorm winds estimated at least at 60 mph in the Walthill area. The storm was accompanied by very heavy rain.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindWalthill-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph kicked up a lot of dust producing a possible gustnado near Highways 77 and 94.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindWalthill-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph downed at least 1 tree in town.
October 2005Thunderstorm WindWalthill-The public estimated that thunderstorm wind gusts hit 60 mph northeast of Walthill.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindWalthill-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 70 mph caused extensive blowing dust and blew several trees and power lines down. One large tree limb fell on a house.
May 2015HailWalthill-no account filed
June 2014HailWalthill-no account filed
August 2007HailWalthill-no account filed
April 2004HailWalthill-no account filed
April 2002HailWalthill-no account filed
July 1996HailWalthill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Thurston 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
Winnebago6.1 miles10
Rosalie6.5 miles9
Macy7.4 miles9
Thurston11.4 miles9
Pender11.8 miles9

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 WalthillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2268284The 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 834465. 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.