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Wilsonville, Nebraska

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Wilsonville precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69046. The Survey maps it on the Wilsonville quadrangle. 75 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,303 feet above sea level.

Wilsonville within Furnas County

Population over time

2 figures

Wilsonville fell from 93 to 75 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
201093
202075-18 (-19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Wilsonville between 2003 and 2018, burning about 386 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
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 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
21 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
2 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
20 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
5 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined375 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
29 November 2006Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Furnas County

Storms near this place

53 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wilsonville in 53 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 40 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
June 2023HailWilsonville$1,000,000Hail up to three inches in diameter resulted in numerous broken windows and siding damage. This hail was accompanied by wind gusts near 70 MPH.
June 2023HailWilsonville$1,000,000A cluster of thunderstorms sliding east just north of the Nebraska-Kansas state line produced widespread severe weather across central and southern portions of Furnas County. Hail generally up to the size of golf balls was reported across this area, though isolated larger hail fell west of Wilsonville (3 inches in diameter) and in Beaver City (baseball size). Wind gusts were estimated to be anywhere from 60 to 70 MPH, resulting in numerous reports of tree damage, including whole trees snapped and larger limbs downed. The wind-driven large hail resulted in widespread damage to crops, siding, windows, and vehicles.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindWilsonville$1,000,000A cluster of thunderstorms sliding east just north of the Nebraska-Kansas state line produced widespread severe weather across central and southern portions of Furnas County. Hail generally up to the size of golf balls was reported across this area, though isolated larger hail fell west of Wilsonville (3 inches in diameter) and in Beaver City (baseball size). Wind gusts were estimated to be anywhere from 60 to 70 MPH, resulting in numerous reports of tree damage, including whole trees snapped and larger limbs downed. The wind-driven large hail resulted in widespread damage to crops, siding, windows, and vehicles.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindWilsonville$200,000no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindWilsonville$150,000no account filed
June 2020HailWilsonville$50,000Hail ranging in size from ping pong balls to golf balls was reported along this path.
June 2012HailWilsonville$50,000no account filed
June 2000HailWilsonville$40,000no account filed
September 2004HailWilsonville$30,000no account filed
May 2002Thunderstorm WindWilsonville$30,000no account filed
August 2016HailWilsonville$25,000Golf ball sized hail was falling along Highway 47, about 7 miles south of Cambridge.
July 2013HailWilsonville$25,000no account filed
July 2011HailWilsonville$25,000no account filed
July 2011HailWilsonville$25,000no account filed
July 2005HailWilsonville$25,000no account filed
May 2004HailWilsonville$25,000no account filed
May 2003HailWilsonville$25,000no account filed
August 2002HailWilsonville$25,000no account filed
June 2001HailWilsonville$20,000no account filed
July 2009HailWilsonville$10,000no account filed
June 2004HailWilsonville$10,000no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindWilsonville$5,000no account filed
July 2000HailWilsonville$5,000no account filed
June 2008HailWilsonville$2,000Penny to quarter size hail was reported.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindWilsonville$2,000no account filed
July 2024Thunderstorm WindWilsonville-A wind gust of 59 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located three miles north-northwest of Wilsonville.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWilsonville-Wind gusts estimated to be near 60 MPH were accompanied by hail up to the size of nickels.
May 2022Tornado (EFU)Wilsonville-A brief landspout tornado touched down in a rural area a few miles north-northwest of Wilsonville. No damage occurred.
June 2017HailWilsonville-Dime to quarter sized hail fell along with heavy rain.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindWilsonville-A thunderstorm wind gust of 68 mph was recorded 8 miles south of Cambridge.
May 2002Tornado (F0)Wilsonville-This tornado exited Red Willow County and entered Furnas county northwest of Wilsonville. The tornado was observed by a chase team and crossed open county.
April 2024HailWilsonville-no account filed
July 2024HailWilsonville-no account filed
August 2021HailWilsonville-no account filed
July 2020HailWilsonville-no account filed
August 2017HailWilsonville-no account filed
July 2015HailWilsonville-no account filed
July 2013HailWilsonville-no account filed
June 2012HailWilsonville-no account filed
June 2012HailWilsonville-no account filed
June 2012HailWilsonville-no account filed
June 2012HailWilsonville-no account filed
May 2010HailWilsonville-no account filed
May 2010HailWilsonville-no account filed
May 2010HailWilsonville-no account filed
May 2010HailWilsonville-no account filed
June 2010HailWilsonville-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindWilsonville-no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindWilsonville-no account filed
August 2002HailWilsonville-no account filed
June 2001HailWilsonville-no account filed
July 2000HailWilsonville-no account filed
October 1998HailWilsonville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Furnas 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
Hendley7.4 miles14
Deerfield Corner11.4 miles14
Cambridge12.1 miles9
Holbrook14.3 miles8
Beaver City14.8 miles13
Arapahoe17.2 miles14
Precept20.1 miles13
Edison20.9 miles14

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 WilsonvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2297639The 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 834805. 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.