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Winnebago, Nebraska

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Winnebago Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68071. It stands on Morgan Creek. The Survey maps it on the Walthill quadrangle. 916 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,165 feet above sea level.

Winnebago within Thurston County

On record in Winnebago

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

Population over time

2 figures

Winnebago grew from 774 to 916 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
2010774
2020916+142 (+18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

96 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Winnebago between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,739 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 were 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/undetermined40
Debris and open burning19
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Fireworks7
Smoking7
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2

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
3 September 2012Smoking35 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2012Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
3 September 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreWinnebago Agencynot named
27 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWinnebago AgencyBIA 378
25 September 2012Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2012Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2002Smoking45 acresWinnebago AgencyA1302113
15 September 2012Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Thurston County

Storms near this place

26 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Winnebago in 26 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 16 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 flood, 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
June 2011FloodWinnebago$25,000Flooding along the Missouri River gradually worsened over the area during June as record releases from Gavins Point Dam brought widespread flooding along the river. Releases from Gavins Point Dam reached around 160,000 cfs after mid June and the high flows continued through July. In Thurston county the flooding generally began during the first week of the month as the gauge at Sioux City, upstream, and Decatur, downstream, didn't surpass flood stage until around June 6th. River levels at both of those locations reached the moderate category. Flooding in Thurston county was mostly confined to agricultural lowlands, recreation areas and roads near the river, but the flooding did force the evacuation of 12 people near Macy. The flooding persisted into July.
August 2011FloodWinnebago$2,000Flooding along the Missouri River continued across the area into August as record releases from Gavins Point Dam due to heavy rain above Sioux City brought widespread flooding along the River. Releases from Gavins Point Dam reached around 160,000 cfs after mid June and the high flows continued through July before decreasing some in early August and even more by the end of the month. The gauge at Sioux City, upstream of the county, and Decatur, downstream, were in a moderate flooding category into early to mid August before falling sharply below flood stage late in the month. Flooding in Thurston county was mostly confined to agricultural lowlands, recreation areas and roads near the river, but the flooding did force the evacuation of 12 people near Macy earlier in the summer.
June 2024FloodWinnebago-River flooding from upstream excessive rain impacted the region, bringing the Missouri River to moderate flood stage. The Missouri River crested at 37.55 feet at the Decatur gauge at 03:45 CDT on 6/26. Flood stage at this gauge is 35.0 feet.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindWinnebago-The emergency manager reports winds up to 60 mph.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindWinnebago-A trailer home was blown onto its side. A roof was reported blown off a house, and a firework tent was blown over.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindWinnebago-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at around 70 mph downed or broke numerous trees in the Winnebago area.
August 2011FloodWinnebago-Heavy rainfall of several inches in an hour or so produced some flooding across Highway 77 from around Winnebago to Walthill.
June 2010Flash FloodWinnebago-Rainfall of over an inch in less than 1 hour caused flash flooding of several streets in Winnebago.
June 2004HailWinnebago-Hail up to 1 inch in diameter fell for 35 minutes in the Winnebago area.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindWinnebago-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 65 mph broke several small trees in half. The winds were accompanied by walnut size hail.
June 2003HailWinnebago-Hail up to nickel size was accompanied by very heavy rain which reduced the visibility down to zero for a while.
May 2015HailWinnebago-no account filed
June 2014HailWinnebago-no account filed
June 2014HailWinnebago-no account filed
June 2014HailWinnebago-no account filed
June 2010HailWinnebago-no account filed
May 2008HailWinnebago-no account filed
March 2007HailWinnebago-no account filed
March 2007HailWinnebago-no account filed
July 2003HailWinnebago-no account filed
July 2003HailWinnebago-no account filed
July 2003HailWinnebago-no account filed
July 2003HailWinnebago-no account filed
April 2001HailWinnebago-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindWinnebago-no account filed
July 1996HailWinnebago-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Thurston 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
Walthill6.1 miles10
Macy10.5 miles9
Rosalie12.6 miles9
Thurston12.8 miles9
Pender15.0 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 WinnebagoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1912737The 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 834815. 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.