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Harbine, Nebraska

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Jefferson precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68377. The Survey maps it on the Harbine quadrangle. 56 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,440 feet above sea level.

Harbine within Jefferson County

Population over time

2 figures

Harbine grew from 49 to 56 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
201049
202056+7 (+14%)

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

10 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Harbine between 2007 and 2018, burning about 26 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning5
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
26 August 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
17 June 2014Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
29 April 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
25 March 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
15 March 2007Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
13 March 2018Debris and open burning2.5 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
25 February 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
18 February 2017Smoking2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

13 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harbine in 13 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 9 hail, 2 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 1996Tornado (F1)Harbine$350,000no account filed
April 2022HailHarbine-Emergency manager reported heavy rain and 1 inch hail.
June 2020HailHarbine-Public reported 1 inch hail.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindHarbine-The emergency manger relayed reports from local law enforcement of strong winds estimated in excess of 60 mph.
May 2013Tornado (EF2)Harbine-A NWS storm survey indicated that a tornado developed approximately 2 miles south of Harbine. The tornado traveled in an east northeast direction impacting several farmsteads in Jefferson County. There was minor damage to 4 houses, and 5 out buildings were damaged beyond repair. Other damage included over-turned center pivots and tree damage. Approximately 2 miles east southeast of Harbine the tornado produced damage consistent with a weak EF2 tornado on the Enhanced Fujita Scale. Here a large recently well-built metal outbuildings were destroyed, minor damage was done to a home, and 2X4 boards were driven into the ground.
August 2010HailHarbine-Mostly pea-size, but some up to nickel-size.
March 2006HailHarbine-The hail fell along with winds of 50 mph.
March 2006Thunderstorm WindHarbine-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph blew an empty semi-trailer truck off the road near Harbine.
June 2014HailHarbine-no account filed
June 2009HailHarbine-no account filed
May 2004HailHarbine-no account filed
June 2001HailHarbine-no account filed
May 1998HailHarbine-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Jansen5.9 miles11
Diller6.0 miles10
Plymouth7.7 miles11
Rudy9.8 miles10
Endicott10.0 miles10
Steele City11.0 miles10
Fairbury11.7 miles11
Bower (historical)12.0 miles10

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 HarbineAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3291407The 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 829797. 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.