Yutan, Nebraska
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68073. It stands on Upper Clear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mead quadrangle. 1,347 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,168 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresYutan grew from 1,174 to 1,347 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 | 1,174 | |
| 2020 | 1,347 | +173 (+15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 17 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.
- 1893 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:125000
- 1896 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Mead quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1982 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
37 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Yutan between 2011 and 2018, burning about 283 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 burning | 23 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 12 September 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 19 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 13 June 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 6 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 6 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 18 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 18 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 Yutan: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hartford Sand & Gravel Pits 1a & 1b | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
24 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yutan in 24 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 11 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Yutan | $40,000 | Damage to center pivot, tree and grain bin damage in addition to outbuildings and fence damage. |
| May 2024 | Tornado (EF0) | Yutan | - | This brief tornado touched down on the Upper Clear Creek approximately 100 yards north of East Vine Street. Here, several branches were broken off of trees before the tornado moved towards the north-northeast. along its path towards County Road N, additional trees had branches broken off as it passed through the west side of a homestead. The tornado dissipated approximately 50 yards north of County Road N. The peak estimated wind speeds in this tornado were 80 miles per hour, with a max width at 50 yards. The average width of this tornado was also estimated to be at 50 yards. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yutan | - | Public reported a large tree downed. |
| August 2021 | Hail | Yutan | - | Public reported 1.25-inch hail in Yutan. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yutan | - | Public reported a roof blown off a shed and substantial tree damage in and around Yutan. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yutan | - | Public reported trees down and power outages in Yutan. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Yutan | - | Penny size hail and 40 mph winds were reported east-northeast of Yutan. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yutan | - | Police in Yutan reported 3 inch diameter tree limbs blown down across the town. |
| September 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yutan | - | A camper was flipped over by damaging thunderstorm winds just south of Yutan. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yutan | - | A 40 foot section of fence was blown down by damaging winds. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yutan | - | A thunderstorm wind gust estimated at close to 70 mph downed 15 inch in diameter trees near Yutan. |
| April 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yutan | - | Emergency management estimated thunderstorm wind gusts reached around 60 mph southwest of Yutan. |
| March 2010 | Flood | Yutan | - | An ice jam caused lowland flooding of roads near a housing development on the Saunders county side of the Platte River. This particular ice jam broke fairly quickly, however flood waters that had spilled out of the banks of the Platte took several hours to work their way back into the river. Besides affecting a few roads, the flood waters mainly flooded agricultural lowlands in the vicinity. Little or no monetary damage was noted according to emergency management. |
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | Yutan | - | Rainfall of 2 to 3 inches fell in a 2 to 3 hour period across sections of Saunders county. The heavy rain produced flash flooding across Highway 92 east of Mead and also flooded farmland in the area. |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yutan | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 mph were estimated by an amateur radio operator. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yutan | - | Large tree downed. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Yutan | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yutan | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Yutan | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Yutan | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Yutan | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Yutan | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Yutan | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Yutan | - | 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.
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 Yutan | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q963183 | 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 834920. 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.
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.






