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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.

Wausa within Knox County

Population over time

2 figures

Wausa 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.

YearPeople Change
2010634
2020592-42 (-7%)

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

1 since 2013

Regional 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 use1

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
1 January 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Knox County

Storms near this place

27 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWausa-Trained spotter reported several very large (greater than 1 foot) tree limbs down.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWausa-Public reported a steeple ripped off of a church via social media. Also submitted photos of several trees snapped.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWausa-Trained spotter reported that streets are impassable in Wausa due to the large number of trees downed.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindWausa-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 2007Tornado (EF0)Wausa-This weak tornado remained mostly in open country and only caused some tree damage before lifting.
September 2007HailWausa-Hail up to 1 inch in diameter lasted for around 10 minutes.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindWausa-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph knocked down large tree branches and caused some roof damage around Wausa.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindWausa-Thunderstorm winds gusts estimated at 60 mph caused wind damage in town, mainly because of large tree branches breaking.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindWausa-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph downed a few trees in town causing damage to playground equipment at the city park.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindWausa-For the second night in a row thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph downed large tree branches which caused power outages in town.
July 2001HailWausa-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 2000Thunderstorm WindWausa-Thunderstorm winds downed numerous tree limbs up to 2 inches in diameter.
July 1998Tornado (F0)Wausa-Windows blown out of pumper truck.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindWausa-Large tree limbs downed.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindWausa-Satellite TV dish blown down.
July 2018HailWausa-no account filed
September 2015HailWausa-no account filed
August 2013HailWausa-no account filed
August 2013HailWausa-no account filed
June 2009HailWausa-no account filed
June 2008HailWausa-no account filed
May 2007HailWausa-no account filed
July 2007HailWausa-no account filed
June 2006HailWausa-no account filed
August 2001HailWausa-no account filed
June 1998HailWausa-no account filed
June 1998HailWausa-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Knox 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
Midland8.7 miles9
Bloomfield8.8 miles10
Crofton16.0 miles9
Bazile Mills19.3 miles10
Center19.3 miles10
Lindy19.3 miles10
Creighton19.4 miles9
Tewsville20.6 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 WausaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3289805The 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.