Heartwell, Nebraska
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in District 1. It lies in ZIP code area 68945. The Survey maps it on the Heartwell quadrangle. 81 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,093 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresHeartwell grew from 71 to 81 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 | 71 | |
| 2020 | 81 | +10 (+14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 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.
- 1894 USGS Minden quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1896 USGS Wood River quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Grand Island quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Grand Island quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Grand Island quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Heartwell quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Grand Island quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
31 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Heartwell in 31 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 19 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2012 | Hail | Heartwell | $250,000 | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Heartwell | $250,000 | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Hail | Heartwell | $100,000 | Hail covered the ground in a number of spots, but was discovered a time after it had fallen, so it was likely larger when it fell. There was extensive crop damage in the area. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Heartwell | $100,000 | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Heartwell | $50,000 | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Heartwell | $50,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Heartwell | $50,000 | no account filed |
| September 2015 | Hail | Heartwell | $25,000 | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Hail | Heartwell | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Heartwell | $15,000 | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Heartwell | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Heartwell | $10,000 | no account filed |
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Heartwell | - | A wind gust of 62 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located two miles southeast of Heartwell, and a gust of 60 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located one mile west of Heartwell. |
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Heartwell | - | A wind gust of 65 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located one mile west of Heartwell. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Heartwell | - | A wind gust of 85 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located one mile west of Heartwell. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Heartwell | - | A wind gust of 59 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located one mile west of Heartwell. |
| May 2021 | Flash Flood | Heartwell | - | Radar estimated that in general a corridor of 3 to 4 inches fell from northwestern Adams County into central portions of Kearney County, with isolated higher amounts. Measured totals included 4.40 inches from a CoCoRaHS observer located 2 miles northeast of Minden and 3.80 inches from the Cooperative Observer in Minden. A number of county roads were covered, including Primrose Avenue near Highway 6 southeast of Kenesaw, where at least one car left the roadway into the ditch. In Minden, the underpass was blocked off around 11 PM due to flooding, remaining that way through at least 3 AM. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Heartwell | - | A wind gust of 64 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located one mile west of Heartwell. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Heartwell | - | A wind gust of 96 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located 1 mile west of Heartwell. The anemometer was mounted well above the ground at 35 to 40 feet on a windmill, with wind speeds at the surface likely not quite as strong as these recorded winds. Several trees were uprooted in the area. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Heartwell | - | Wind gusts estimated at 60 mph. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Heartwell | - | Wind gust estimated at 60 mph. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Heartwell | - | Thunderstorm winds gusted to 80 mph at Heartwell and downed power lines in Minden. |
| July 2024 | Hail | Heartwell | - | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Hail | Heartwell | - | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Hail | Heartwell | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Heartwell | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Heartwell | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Heartwell | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Heartwell | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Heartwell | - | no account filed |
| March 1997 | Hail | Heartwell | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Koller | 4.5 miles | 14 | |
| Lowell | 6.2 miles | 16 | |
| Norman | 6.3 miles | 12 | |
| Valley City (historical) | 6.8 miles | 16 | |
| Minden | 9.8 miles | 12 | |
| Newark | 10.5 miles | 16 | |
| Kearney City (historical) | 14.6 miles | 20 | |
| Keene | 17.8 miles | 13 |
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 Heartwell | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2259007 | 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 829907. 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.
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.






