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Hardy, Nebraska

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Hardy precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68943. The Survey maps it on the Hardy quadrangle. 97 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,555 feet above sea level.

Hardy within Nuckolls County

Population over time

2 figures

Hardy fell from 159 to 97 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
2010159
202097-62 (-39%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Hardy between 2006 and 2018, burning about 107 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 burning1
Fireworks1
Natural1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
4 July 2017Fireworks3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
28 July 2012Natural3.5 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
7 January 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nuckolls County

Storms near this place

21 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hardy in 21 storm reports between 2001 and 2019: 10 hail, 4 heavy rain, 3 tornado, 3 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 2015Tornado (EF2)Hardy$1,500,000This is a continuation of the tornado that touched down west-northwest of Webber in Jewell County, KS, traveling northeast through the very northwest corner of Republic County, KS, before entering Nebraska near the town of Hardy in Nuckolls County. It continued traveling northeast into Thayer County, lifting northwest of Deshler. This tornado was rated an EF2, with an estimated peak wind speed of 122 MPH. EF2 damage was noted in both Jewell County, KS and Nuckolls County, NE.||Damage along this tornado path included numerous pivots overturned and snapped power poles. There was a large amount of tree damage noted. In addition, in Nuckolls County, grain bins and outbuildings were destroyed. One home sustained chimney and siding damage, while another home lost a large section of its roof.
May 2015Flash FloodHardy$500,000A swath of 5 to 9 inches of rain, with locally higher amounts, was reported primarily across the southeastern half of the county. The Republican River along the southern edge of the county was flooded. Numerous bridges and many miles of county roads were damaged by the flooding.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindHardy$500,000Wind gusts estimated to be near 75 mph resulted in a swath of damage from Hardy to Ruskin. At least 4 irrigation pivots were overturned, at least 8 to 10 power poles were damaged or destroyed, and tree limbs as much as 6 to 8 inches in diameter were blown down along this path. In Hardy, a hybrid seed distribution business suffered damage to seed storage tanks.
April 2016HailHardy$25,000no account filed
April 2005HailHardy$25,000no account filed
May 2004HailHardy$25,000no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindHardy$15,000no account filed
August 2019Thunderstorm WindHardy-Wind gusts estimated to be near 65 MPH resulted in tree limbs being downed in Hardy. Some limbs were as large as 6 to 8 inches in diameter.
April 2016Heavy RainHardy-Twenty-four hour rainfall was 3.65 inches.
May 2015Heavy RainHardy-A 24 hour storm total rainfall amount of 8.20 inches was reported.
October 2013Heavy RainHardy-A rainfall total of 3.09 inches occurred.
August 2013Heavy RainHardy-A 12 hour total of 3.00 inches fell through 7 am CDT. This report was from the Nebraska Rainfall Assessment and Information Network (NERAIN).
April 2012Tornado (EF0)Hardy-No damage was reported with this tornado, which touched down approximated 1 mile east of Hardy and lifted approximately 4 miles east of Hardy.
May 2004Tornado (F0)Hardy-A brief tornado near Hardy.
April 2016HailHardy-no account filed
May 2016HailHardy-no account filed
June 2015HailHardy-no account filed
August 2014HailHardy-no account filed
May 2007HailHardy-no account filed
May 2001HailHardy-no account filed
May 2001HailHardy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nuckolls 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
Superior7.6 miles12
Cadams7.9 miles12
Ruskin9.8 miles12
Smyrna10.6 miles12
Nora10.8 miles12
Abdal (historical)13.0 miles12
Bostwick13.9 miles11
Oak Mill15.2 miles12

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 HardyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3287868The 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 829803. 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.