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Hay Springs, Nebraska

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Hay Springs precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69347. The Survey maps it on the Hay Springs quadrangle. 599 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,839 feet above sea level.

Hay Springs within Sheridan County

Population over time

2 figures

Hay Springs grew from 570 to 599 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
2010570
2020599+29 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

11 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Hay Springs between 2007 and 2018, burning about 26 acres in total. 3 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 burning4
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
29 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
7 July 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
10 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
9 June 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
25 June 2016Natural2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
21 June 2007Natural8.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
15 May 2007Naturalunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
20 March 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Sheridan County

Storms near this place

5 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hay Springs in 5 storm reports between 1993 and 1995: 3 hail, 1 tornado, 1 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 1993Tornado (F3)Hay Springs$5,000,000A tornado started approximately 12 miles south of Hay Springs and eventually ended northeast of town. One home was destroyed and three other homes were damaged as the tornado went through town. Trees were uprooted and grain bins were also destroyed. Loss of livestock included 40 lambs and 8 cattle on a farm south of town. The damage to the Northwest Rural Public Power District was estimated at $65,000. Total damage from the tornado was near $1,000,000.
August 1995HailHay Springs-The storm damaged an estimated 2,500 acres of beans and corn. The hail cut a five mile swath.
August 1995HailHay Springs-The storm damaged an estimated 2,500 acres of beans and corn. The hail cut a five mile swath.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindHay Springs-The storm damaged an estimated 2,500 acres of beans and corn. The hail cut a five mile swath.
June 1994HailHay Springs-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sheridan 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
Rushville12.2 miles8
Peters (historical)12.6 miles8
Adaton (historical)14.4 miles8
Clinton18.8 miles8
Hilton (historical)19.5 miles10
Marple (historical)19.7 miles10
Grayson (historical)20.8 miles11
Pine Ridge22.7 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 Hay SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1976433The 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 829881. 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.