Wynot, Nebraska
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Precinct 5. It lies in ZIP code area 68792. The Survey maps it on the Wynot quadrangle. 216 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,198 feet above sea level.
On record in Wynot
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 2 records
Population over time
2 figuresWynot grew from 166 to 216 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 | 166 | |
| 2020 | 216 | +50 (+30%) |
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 Sioux City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Wynot quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Yankton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
7 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Wynot between 2006 and 2018, burning about 16 acres in total. 1 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 burning | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 19 July 2017 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 17 July 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 19 April 2008 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 18 April 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 30 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 5 February 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
22 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wynot in 22 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 12 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2009 | Flash Flood | Wynot | $50,000 | Thunderstorms dropped very heavy rain in the Wynot area which produced areas of flash flooding. The cooperative observer near Wynot reported 3.55 inches of rain in a several hour period during the morning of July 9th. The flooding was observed across several county roads and Highway 12 near Wynot. Gravel was washed off of a few roads and some culvert damage was noted. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wynot | - | Multiple 3-inch tree branches were reported down in the town of Wynot, Nebraska. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wynot | - | Public reported large tree down near Wynot. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Wynot | - | Public reported 1 inch hail. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wynot | - | Trained spotter estimated wind at about 60 mph. |
| July 2014 | Flood | Wynot | - | Water over rural roads were reported by the Wynot Fire Department. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wynot | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts downed large tree limbs onto power lines which caused some scattered power outages in the Wynot and St. Helena areas. |
| July 2007 | Hail | Wynot | - | Hail up to golfball size stripped some corn in the area. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wynot | - | A trained spotter estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 mph near town. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wynot | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph downed large tree limbs in Wynot. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wynot | - | Thunderstorm winds were estimated at 60 mph by a spotter. |
| June 2003 | Hail | Wynot | - | Hail slightly larger than dime size fell for 20 minutes in Wynot, which also reported 3 inches of rain in a 90 minute period. |
| August 2000 | Hail | Wynot | - | The hail was accompanied by thunderstorm wind gusts around 70 mph as reported by law enforcement personnel. |
| June 1999 | Flash Flood | Wynot | - | Two to 3 inches of rain, with an isolated 7 inch report, caused flash flooding around the Wynot area...mainly along the West Bow Creek area. |
| March 2017 | Hail | Wynot | - | no account filed |
| August 2014 | Hail | Wynot | - | no account filed |
| September 2010 | Hail | Wynot | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Wynot | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Wynot | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Wynot | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Wynot | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Wynot | - | 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 James | 1.0 miles | 9 | |
| Bow Valley Mills | 1.5 miles | 10 | |
| Bow Valley | 4.6 miles | 9 | |
| Saint Helena | 6.4 miles | 10 | |
| Obert | 8.3 miles | 10 | |
| Hartington | 9.6 miles | 9 | |
| Fordyce | 10.6 miles | 9 | |
| Menominee | 11.3 miles | 10 |
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 Wynot | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2413875 | 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 834897. 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.





