Harrisburg, Nebraska
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Long Springs precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69345. The Survey maps it on the Harrisburg quadrangle. 99 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,491 feet above sea level.
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Population over time
2 figuresHarrisburg fell from 100 to 99 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 | 100 | |
| 2020 | 99 | -1 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 14 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 Scotts Bluff quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Scottsbluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Scottsbluff quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1973 USGS Scotts Bluff 4 SW quadrangle1:24000
- 1979 USGS Harrisburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Scottsbluff quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
26 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Harrisburg between 2007 and 2020, burning about 5,653 acres in total. 11 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 2 September 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 300 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 16 August 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 1 August 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 1 August 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 5 July 2017 | Fireworks | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 4 July 2016 | Fireworks | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 30 July 2007 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this place
60 of 179 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harrisburg in 179 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 119 hail, 33 thunderstorm wind, 15 tornado, 6 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2005 | Tornado (F2) | Harrisburg | $300,000 | Tornado moved SSE across parts of eastern Banner county, remaining over open country. Some power lines, power transmission towers and poles blown down as well as trees uprooted. Damage to irrigation pivots also reported. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Harrisburg | $100,000 | A storm chaser reported 2-inch diameter hail 4 miles E of Harrisburg. |
| June 1999 | Hail | Harrisburg | $50,000 | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Tornado (F1) | Harrisburg | $30,000 | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Tornado (EF1) | Harrisburg | $25,000 | A short-lived tornado touched down east of Highway 71 southeast of Harrisburg, NE. A calving barn was moved about 10 yards from its original location. One horse was killed with several other horses injured. Several power poles were broken. A grain bin was pushed off its foundation, landing east into grove of trees. Pole barn rolled with only a few walls left standing (DI 1, DOD 7). |
| June 2025 | Hail | Harrisburg | $20,000 | Video NW of Harrisburg. Photos sent to office with windows broken and large branches down. |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harrisburg | $15,000 | Several out buildings destroyed on farm by strong thunderstorm wind gust. |
| June 2004 | Hail | Harrisburg | $10,000 | Hail up to 6 inches in circumference. |
| June 2003 | Hail | Harrisburg | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Harrisburg | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Hail | Harrisburg | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Hail | Harrisburg | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harrisburg | - | Mesonet station reported wind gust of 61mph from nearby thunderstorm. |
| September 2025 | Hail | Harrisburg | - | Storm Spotter reports half dollar sized hail in Banner County. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Harrisburg | - | Several reports of golf ball sized hail near and in Harrissburg. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harrisburg | - | MPing from Storm Chaser of 64mph wind gust measured with handheld Kestrel. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harrisburg | - | Estimated wind gusts 60 to 70 mph, along with large hail. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Harrisburg | - | Public reports quarter size hail. |
| August 2024 | Hail | Harrisburg | - | Storm chaser reported 1.2 inch hail northwest of Harrisburg. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harrisburg | - | Estimated 60 mph winds with the initial storm outflow, then becoming more consistently 40-45 mph. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Harrisburg | - | A trained weather spotter reported quarter sized hail in the town of Harrisburg. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Harrisburg | - | A trained weather spotter reported ping pong ball sized hail near the southbound weigh station off Highway 71 in Banner County, approximately 5 miles ESE of Harrisburg. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harrisburg | - | Trained spotter reported wind gusts and pea sized hail. |
| August 2024 | Hail | Harrisburg | - | Spotter reports quarter sized hail 10 miles northwest of Harrisburg. |
| August 2024 | Hail | Harrisburg | - | Storm chaser reports quarter sized hail 10 miles south of Gering via the Spotter Network. |
| May 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harrisburg | - | A trained weather spotter located 18 miles east of Harrisburg estimated wind gusts to 70 MPH. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Harrisburg | - | Report of penny size hail covering the ground. |
| May 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harrisburg | - | A 60 MPH wind gust was reported 12 miles WSW of Harrisburg. |
| May 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harrisburg | - | AWOS station K1CW measured maximum wind gust 9 miles east of Harrisburg. |
| May 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harrisburg | - | A trained spotter located 19 miles east of Harrisburg estimated wind gusts to 60 MPH. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Harrisburg | - | Report from social media of quarter sized hail south of Harrisburg. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harrisburg | - | Harrisburg, NE AWOS station (K1CW) reported wind gust. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harrisburg | - | Bravo (Pine Bluffs) AWOS station (K1BW) measured wind gust. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harrisburg | - | Power poles were knocked down causing wide spread power outages. |
| July 2021 | Flash Flood | Harrisburg | - | Roads near Pumpkin Creek east of Highway 71 were reported flooded. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harrisburg | - | Two empty and un-anchored 10X14 outbuildings, located north of Double L Cafe on Highway 71, 4 miles southeast of Harrisburg, NE, were flipped upside down by wind. Estimated wind speeds at 55 mph. The outbuildings were all wood construction and had no awning. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Harrisburg | - | Sheriff reported 6 inches of hail between Kimball County Roads 8 and 54. Had to call snow plows out to clear roads. |
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harrisburg | - | Mesonet station NE001 - Banner Road on NE 71. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harrisburg | - | AWOS station K1BW - Bravo Madis reported wind gust 14 miles west of Harrisburg, NE. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harrisburg | - | Heavy rain and pea size hail in addition to the reported thunderstorm winds reduced visibilities to near zero. |
| August 2019 | Hail | Harrisburg | - | Hail stripped corn stalks in area fields. |
| August 2019 | Flash Flood | Harrisburg | - | Resident driveway was washed out completely from flood waters creating over one foot craters in roadway. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Harrisburg | - | Ping pong ball size hail was observed east of Harrisburg. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Harrisburg | - | Quarter size hail was observed 10 miles south of Harrisburg. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Harrisburg | - | Quarter size hail covered the ground north of Harrisburg. |
| June 2017 | Heavy Rain | Harrisburg | - | An inch of rain fell in 15 minutes five miles northwest of Harrisburg. |
| June 2017 | Tornado (EFU) | Harrisburg | - | Storm chasers captured video of a tornado briefly touching down in a remote section of southern Banner County. The tornado caused no damage from which the NWS could assign an EF-scale rating. Path was estimated by cross-referencing storm chaser reports and radar data. |
| August 2017 | Hail | Harrisburg | - | Quarter size hail was observed 20 miles north of Sidney. |
| August 2017 | Hail | Harrisburg | - | Quarter size hail was observed southeast of Harrisburg. |
| August 2017 | Hail | Harrisburg | - | Golf ball to baseball size hail was observed southeast of Harrisburg. |
| August 2017 | Hail | Harrisburg | - | Nickel to quarter size hail accumulated four inches deep on Highway 71. |
| August 2017 | Heavy Rain | Harrisburg | - | Nearly one and two-third inches of rain fell in 45 minutes northwest of Harrisburg. |
| August 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harrisburg | - | Estimated wind gusts of 55 to 60 mph were observed southeast of Harrisburg. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harrisburg | - | Estimated wind gusts of 60 mph caused power outages across north and central portions of the county. |
| August 2016 | Heavy Rain | Harrisburg | - | Nearly one and three-quarters of an inch of rain was reported eight miles west of Redington. |
| August 2016 | Flash Flood | Harrisburg | - | Flash flooding was reported eight miles west of Redington. Corrals were flooded with widespread standing water. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Harrisburg | - | Ping pong ball size hail was reported on Highway 88 just east of the Wyoming/Nebraska border. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Harrisburg | - | Quarter size hail was reported at Harrisburg. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Harrisburg | - | Quarter size hail was reported 15 miles west of Harrisburg. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Harrisburg | - | Quarter size hail covered the ground 12 miles west-northwest of Harrisburg. |
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 Harrisburg | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2541735 | 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 829823. 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.





