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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.

Yutan within Saunders County

Population over time

2 figures

Yutan 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,174
20201,347+173 (+15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

37 since 2011

Regional 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 burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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
28 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
12 September 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
19 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
13 June 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
18 May 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
18 May 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saunders County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hartford Sand & Gravel Pits 1a & 1bSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Saunders County

Storms near this place

24 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1999Tornado (F0)Yutan$40,000Damage to center pivot, tree and grain bin damage in addition to outbuildings and fence damage.
May 2024Tornado (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 2023Thunderstorm WindYutan-Public reported a large tree downed.
August 2021HailYutan-Public reported 1.25-inch hail in Yutan.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindYutan-Public reported a roof blown off a shed and substantial tree damage in and around Yutan.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindYutan-Public reported trees down and power outages in Yutan.
May 2018HailYutan-Penny size hail and 40 mph winds were reported east-northeast of Yutan.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindYutan-Police in Yutan reported 3 inch diameter tree limbs blown down across the town.
September 2017Thunderstorm WindYutan-A camper was flipped over by damaging thunderstorm winds just south of Yutan.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindYutan-A 40 foot section of fence was blown down by damaging winds.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindYutan-A thunderstorm wind gust estimated at close to 70 mph downed 15 inch in diameter trees near Yutan.
April 2010Thunderstorm WindYutan-Emergency management estimated thunderstorm wind gusts reached around 60 mph southwest of Yutan.
March 2010FloodYutan-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 2008Flash FloodYutan-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 2006Thunderstorm WindYutan-Thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 mph were estimated by an amateur radio operator.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindYutan-Large tree downed.
July 2013HailYutan-no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindYutan-no account filed
March 2006HailYutan-no account filed
June 2005HailYutan-no account filed
June 2005HailYutan-no account filed
April 2001HailYutan-no account filed
July 2000HailYutan-no account filed
May 1996HailYutan-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Saunders 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
Mead4.9 miles17
Leshara6.1 miles15
Wann7.1 miles15
Big Sandy Lake8.7 miles15
Ithaca9.4 miles12
Woodcliff10.2 miles16
Riverside10.3 miles17
Memphis10.5 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 YutanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q963183The 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.