BlockWest Point, Nebraska
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in West Point City. It lies in ZIP code area 68788. The Survey maps it on the West Point quadrangle. 3,500 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,348 feet above sea level.
On record in West Point
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 1 record
West Point City Auditoriumlisted 2009
Population over time
2 figuresWest Point grew from 3,364 to 3,500 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 | 3,364 | |
| 2020 | 3,500 | +136 (+4%) |
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 Fremont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS West Point quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Blair quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of West Point: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Point Pit and Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
4 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Point in 4 storm reports between 1994 and 1997: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 hail. 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 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Point | $20,000 | Widespread trees and power lines downed and structural damage to farm buildings. |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Point | - | Damaging thunderstorm winds swept through Wisner knocking down large trees, business signs and power lines. |
| June 1994 | Tornado (F0) | West Point | - | Several small tornadoes briefly touched down in Cuming County with one twelve miles northeast of Beemer tearing up trees and overturning a pivot irrigation system. The others occurred in open fields with no apparent damage. Hail and very strong straight line winds were also reported. |
| March 1997 | Hail | West Point | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Charles | 4.0 miles | 9 | |
| Monterey | 6.1 miles | 8 | |
| Beemer | 8.2 miles | 8 | |
| Bismarck | 9.3 miles | 8 | |
| Aloys | 10.4 miles | 8 | |
| Bismarck (historical) | 11.6 miles | 8 | |
| Bancroft | 13.8 miles | 9 | |
| Wisner | 14.8 miles | 8 |
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 West Point | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q967311 | 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 834614. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.