Wausa, Nebraska
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lincoln Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68786. The Survey maps it on the Wausa quadrangle. 592 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,765 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresWausa fell from 634 to 592 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 | 634 | |
| 2020 | 592 | -42 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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 Sioux City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Wausa quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Norfolk quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Wausa in 2013, burning about 1 acre 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 January 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
27 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wausa in 27 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 14 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wausa | - | Trained spotter reported several very large (greater than 1 foot) tree limbs down. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wausa | - | Public reported a steeple ripped off of a church via social media. Also submitted photos of several trees snapped. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wausa | - | Trained spotter reported that streets are impassable in Wausa due to the large number of trees downed. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wausa | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 to 70 mph caused areas of tree damage in the Wausa area and a transmission pole near the junction of Highways 84 and 121 was knocked down causing the loss of power for about 650 people for a few hours. A few center pivots were also damaged. |
| May 2007 | Tornado (EF0) | Wausa | - | This weak tornado remained mostly in open country and only caused some tree damage before lifting. |
| September 2007 | Hail | Wausa | - | Hail up to 1 inch in diameter lasted for around 10 minutes. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wausa | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph knocked down large tree branches and caused some roof damage around Wausa. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wausa | - | Thunderstorm winds gusts estimated at 60 mph caused wind damage in town, mainly because of large tree branches breaking. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wausa | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph downed a few trees in town causing damage to playground equipment at the city park. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wausa | - | For the second night in a row thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph downed large tree branches which caused power outages in town. |
| July 2001 | Hail | Wausa | - | The hail caused quite a bit of crop damage near town and the rain washed it into 2 foot drifts where were still around the next afternoon. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wausa | - | Thunderstorm winds downed numerous tree limbs up to 2 inches in diameter. |
| July 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Wausa | - | Windows blown out of pumper truck. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wausa | - | Large tree limbs downed. |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wausa | - | Satellite TV dish blown down. |
| July 2018 | Hail | Wausa | - | no account filed |
| September 2015 | Hail | Wausa | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Hail | Wausa | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Hail | Wausa | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Wausa | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Wausa | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Wausa | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Wausa | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Wausa | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Wausa | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Wausa | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Wausa | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Midland | 8.7 miles | 9 | |
| Bloomfield | 8.8 miles | 10 | |
| Crofton | 16.0 miles | 9 | |
| Bazile Mills | 19.3 miles | 10 | |
| Center | 19.3 miles | 10 | |
| Lindy | 19.3 miles | 10 | |
| Creighton | 19.4 miles | 9 | |
| Tewsville | 20.6 miles | 9 |
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 Wausa | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3289805 | 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 834509. 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.




