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Bartley, Nebraska

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Indianola precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69020. It stands on Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Danbury NE quadrangle. 270 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,346 feet above sea level.

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Bartley within Red Willow County

On record in Bartley

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

Bartley fell from 283 to 270 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
2010283
2020270-13 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

16 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Bartley between 2008 and 2017, burning about 83 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
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Fireworks1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
21 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
1 July 2017Fireworks1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
26 June 2012Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 May 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
10 May 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution10 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
1 May 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution4.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
15 April 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
4 March 2009Equipment and vehicle use50 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Red Willow County

Storms near this place

51 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bartley in 51 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 32 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2000HailBartley$250,000Reports of Baseball size Hail resulted in broken windows and crop damage in and around Bartley. Crop Damage unknown.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindBartley$4,000Power lines were reported down along US Highway 34 just west of the Red Willow/Furnas County line. Time estimated by radar.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindBartley$500Reported thunderstorm wind damage with a patio umbrella broken off an outdoor table.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindBartley$500Large tree was blown down by thunderstorm winds.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindBartley$100Large tree down
May 2024HailBartley-Dime to quarter sized hail.
May 2024HailBartley-Pea to quarter sized hail reported.
May 2024HailBartley-Trained spotter reported penny to dime sized hail.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindBartley-Spotter reported an estimated 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust at location.
June 2022HailBartley-Social media report of .75 inch hail.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindBartley-Estimated wind gusts of 50-60 MPH with heavy rainfall.
June 2022HailBartley-Dime to penny sized hail observed.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindBartley-Report received of an estimated 70 mph thunderstorm wind gust at location. Time is estimated by radar.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindBartley-A storm chaser measured a 64 mph wind gust associated with the outflow from a line of storms crossing the Red Willow/Furnas county line.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindBartley-Irrigation pivot reported to be knocked over by a thunderstorm wind gust on the south side of Bartley, Nebraska. Time is estimated by radar and gust speed is estimated by damage indicator.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindBartley-Trained spotter reported numerous tree limbs down due to straight line winds at location. Spotter also reported pea to dime size hail. Speed estimated by storm damage.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindBartley-A trained spotter three miles west and three miles north of Cambridge reported a wind gust of 62 mph.
September 2016HailBartley-Could hear the hail falling over the phone.
September 2016HailBartley-Could hear the hail falling over the phone.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindBartley-6 inch tree limbs down
May 2002Tornado (F0)Bartley-Weak tornado developed 5 miles SE of Bartley at 17:30 and tracked southeast across open fields, reaching the Furnas County line 9 miles SE of Bartley at 17:40. No known injuries or damage.
August 2002Tornado (F0)Bartley-Brief touchdown...no known damage
August 2001Thunderstorm WindBartley-Brief gustnado tore down tree branches in town.
October 2000Funnel CloudBartley-Reported by public safety.
October 2000Tornado (F0)Bartley-No damage reported with tornado as it lifted near northeast corner of the county.
July 2024HailBartley-no account filed
September 2022HailBartley-no account filed
August 2020HailBartley-no account filed
September 2015HailBartley-no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindBartley-no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindBartley-no account filed
July 2006HailBartley-no account filed
June 2005HailBartley-no account filed
June 2005HailBartley-no account filed
June 2005HailBartley-no account filed
June 2004HailBartley-no account filed
May 2003HailBartley-no account filed
May 2003HailBartley-no account filed
May 2003HailBartley-no account filed
May 2003HailBartley-no account filed
May 2003HailBartley-no account filed
July 2003HailBartley-no account filed
May 2002HailBartley-no account filed
June 2002HailBartley-no account filed
June 2002HailBartley-no account filed
May 2000HailBartley-no account filed
May 2000HailBartley-no account filed
June 2000HailBartley-no account filed
October 2000HailBartley-no account filed
May 1998HailBartley-no account filed
June 1996HailBartley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Red Willow 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
Indianola5.7 miles8
Red Willow10.0 miles8
Lebanon13.8 miles9
Shippee14.3 miles8
Danbury15.3 miles8
McCook16.9 miles8
Marion18.4 miles8
Perry21.9 miles8

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 BartleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2718295The 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 827204. 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.