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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.

Heartwell within Kearney County

Population over time

2 figures

Heartwell 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.

YearPeople Change
201071
202081+10 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

Storms near this place

31 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2012HailHeartwell$250,000no account filed
April 2012HailHeartwell$250,000no account filed
July 2014HailHeartwell$100,000Hail 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 2022HailHeartwell$100,000no account filed
July 2002HailHeartwell$50,000no account filed
May 1999Tornado (F0)Heartwell$50,000no account filed
May 1998HailHeartwell$50,000no account filed
September 2015HailHeartwell$25,000no account filed
September 2006HailHeartwell$25,000no account filed
July 2015HailHeartwell$15,000no account filed
June 2009HailHeartwell$10,000no account filed
May 1998HailHeartwell$10,000no account filed
April 2024Thunderstorm WindHeartwell-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 2024Thunderstorm WindHeartwell-A wind gust of 65 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located one mile west of Heartwell.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindHeartwell-A wind gust of 85 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located one mile west of Heartwell.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindHeartwell-A wind gust of 59 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located one mile west of Heartwell.
May 2021Flash FloodHeartwell-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 2021Thunderstorm WindHeartwell-A wind gust of 64 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located one mile west of Heartwell.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindHeartwell-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 2010Thunderstorm WindHeartwell-Wind gusts estimated at 60 mph.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindHeartwell-Wind gust estimated at 60 mph.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindHeartwell-Thunderstorm winds gusted to 80 mph at Heartwell and downed power lines in Minden.
July 2024HailHeartwell-no account filed
July 2024HailHeartwell-no account filed
July 2023HailHeartwell-no account filed
June 2022HailHeartwell-no account filed
April 2012HailHeartwell-no account filed
May 2004HailHeartwell-no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindHeartwell-no account filed
May 1999HailHeartwell-no account filed
March 1997HailHeartwell-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kearney 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
Koller4.5 miles14
Lowell6.2 miles16
Norman6.3 miles12
Valley City (historical)6.8 miles16
Minden9.8 miles12
Newark10.5 miles16
Kearney City (historical)14.6 miles20
Keene17.8 miles13

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 HeartwellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2259007The 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.