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Wymore, Nebraska

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Blue Springs-Wymore Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68466. It stands on Bills Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wymore quadrangle. 1,377 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,240 feet above sea level.

Wymore within Gage County

On record in Wymore

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Wymore fell from 1,457 to 1,377 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
20101,457
20201,377-80 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

13 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Wymore between 2005 and 2020, burning about 633 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
Debris and open burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3

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
22 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
21 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
16 May 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
30 April 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
24 April 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
2 April 2011Debris and open burning55 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
15 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
15 April 2007Debris and open burning15 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gage County

Storms near this place

17 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wymore in 17 storm reports between 1996 and 2011: 9 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 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
April 2006Tornado (F2)Wymore$4,500,000This tornado formed about 6 miles west of Wymore at 433 pm CDT (1533 CST), tracked northeast to around 4 miles east of Beatrice where it caused f2 damage, then tracked just south of Adams and crossed into Johnson county 2 miles southeast of Adams around 515 pm CDT. In Johnson county the tornado tracked another 5 miles before dissipating or lifting 3 miles north of Sterling. This tornado formed from a supercell which then became rain-wrapped and took on a heavy rain (hp) supercell characteristics.In Gage county, the average width of the damage path of the tornado was around 150 yards, but it did reach around 1/2 mile in a 3 mile stretch from 4 miles east of Beatrice to 6 miles east northeast of Beatrice. The total path length in Gage and Johnson counties was 34 miles. Seventy-three homes were affected by the tornado, one house was basically destroyed and two others received major damage. One farmstead had 10 trees uprooted. The tornado also destroyed two large chicken houses that when full could house up to 86,000 broilers. In Gage county the damage was estimated at $4.5 million.
May 1996HailWymore$450,000no account filed
April 2001Tornado (F1)Wymore$150,000A brief touchdown of a tornado caused extensive tree damage and some roof and structual damage in Wymore. Trees were downed across highway 77 in town causing its closure. One mobile home was pushed 10 feet off of it's foundation causing some structual damage. A roof was torn off of a garage and several grain bins were crumpled and moved 75 to 125 yards. This tornado was associated with the same thunderstorm complex that caused the tornado in Virginia.
June 2001LightningWymore$38,000A lightning strike caused a house fire in Wymore.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindWymore$23,000Two grain bins and a sheet metal shed badly damaged. A truck was also damaged when the grain bin went airborn and slammed into it. Numerous tree limbs as large as eight inches in diameter downed.
May 2011HailWymore-The hail was accompanied by thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph.
March 2007HailWymore-Hail up to 3/4 inch in diameter was reported by the cooperative observer in Wymore.
April 2005HailWymore-Hail up to 1 inch in diameter was reported in Wymore and just west of town.
June 2005HailWymore-Hail up to softball size was reported by law enforcement around and to the southwest of Wymore.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindWymore-The Gage county Emergency Manager reported that thunderstorms winds gusted to 70 mph in Wymore downing large tree branches.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindWymore-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated at 70 mph by emergency management in Wymore. The strong winds caused tree damage in town and toppled a crane working on new bridge construction. The crane fell through a power line creating a power outage for customers in Norris.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindWymore-Trees blown down.
July 2006HailWymore-no account filed
April 2005HailWymore-no account filed
June 2001HailWymore-no account filed
May 1996Flash FloodWymore-no account filed
May 1996HailWymore-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gage 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
Blue Springs1.2 miles10
Badger4.2 miles10
Holmesville5.4 miles10
Krider5.7 miles10
Barneston6.8 miles10
Odell9.0 miles10
Rockford9.5 miles11
Liberty9.9 miles11

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 WymoreAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q963779The 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 834893. 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.