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Waterbury, Nebraska

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Ottercreek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68785. The Survey maps it on the Waterbury quadrangle. 72 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,309 feet above sea level.

Waterbury within Dixon County

Population over time

2 figures

Waterbury fell from 73 to 72 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
201073
202072-1 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

6 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Waterbury between 2008 and 2020, burning about 80 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
21 June 2014Debris and open burning3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 May 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution30 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
30 April 2020Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
14 April 2008Debris and open burning20 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
10 April 2009Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
4 March 2016Debris and open burning20 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dixon County

Storms near this place

7 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waterbury in 7 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
August 2011HailWaterbury$50,000Large hail, driven by strong winds, broke numerous windows, dented vehicles, and caused widespread crop damage.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindWaterbury-Six inch diameter tree limbs were downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2011Flash FloodWaterbury-Heavy rainfall from thunderstorms caused Pidgeon Creek to overflow, flooding some farmland.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindWaterbury-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including some trees blown down. The winds also caused minor damage to structures.
June 2025HailWaterbury-no account filed
June 2025HailWaterbury-no account filed
July 2002HailWaterbury-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dixon 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
Martinsburg6.2 miles18
Allen6.5 miles9
Ponca7.4 miles20
Emerson12.4 miles10
Dixon14.2 miles9
Concord14.4 miles9
Ionia (historical)14.7 miles19
Wakefield14.7 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 WaterburyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1844284The 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 834500. 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.