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.
Population over time
2 figuresHardy 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 159 | |
| 2020 | 97 | -62 (-39%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 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.
- 1898 USGS Hebron quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Hardy quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Fairbury quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2006Regional 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 burning | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 July 2017 | Fireworks | 3.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 28 July 2012 | Natural | 3.5 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 29 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 January 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
21 since 2001Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2015 | Tornado (EF2) | Hardy | $1,500,000 | This 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 2015 | Flash Flood | Hardy | $500,000 | A 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 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hardy | $500,000 | Wind 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 2016 | Hail | Hardy | $25,000 | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Hardy | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Hardy | $25,000 | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hardy | $15,000 | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hardy | - | 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 2016 | Heavy Rain | Hardy | - | Twenty-four hour rainfall was 3.65 inches. |
| May 2015 | Heavy Rain | Hardy | - | A 24 hour storm total rainfall amount of 8.20 inches was reported. |
| October 2013 | Heavy Rain | Hardy | - | A rainfall total of 3.09 inches occurred. |
| August 2013 | Heavy Rain | Hardy | - | 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 2012 | Tornado (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 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Hardy | - | A brief tornado near Hardy. |
| April 2016 | Hail | Hardy | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Hardy | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Hardy | - | no account filed |
| August 2014 | Hail | Hardy | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Hardy | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Hardy | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Hardy | - | 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 Hardy | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3287868 | 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 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.





