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Hedrix, Nebraska

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Richland precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68352. The Survey maps it on the Fairbury quadrangle.

Hedrix within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

25 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Hedrix between 2014 and 2020, burning about 405 acres in total. None 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 burning17
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony1

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
26 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
4 July 2020Debris and open burning2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
13 June 2014Debris and open burning18 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
9 May 2018Debris and open burning10 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
25 May 2014Debris and open burning3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
2 May 2014Debris and open burning12 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
12 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
27 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

11 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hedrix in 11 storm reports between 2008 and 2020: 6 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
June 2020Tornado (EFU)Hedrix-Broadcast media reported a brief tornado near Fairbury.
July 2020Flash FloodHedrix-Emergency manager reported that 565th Avenue north of highway 136 is impassable due to flooding.
July 2020Flash FloodHedrix-Emergency manager reported more county roads being closed due to flooding.
September 2015HailHedrix-The emergency manager reported up to tennis ball size hail, which damaged the roof and broke out windows of a house. There was also extensive crop damage in this area.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindHedrix-Spotter estimated wind speeds greater than 60 mph with small tree limbs down.
September 2010HailHedrix-Hail up to half dollar-size was reported from around 4 miles west of Fairbury into Fairbury.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindHedrix-Emergency management estimated that thunderstorm winds gusted to 65 mph a little west of the Fairbury area. The winds were accompanied by dime to nickel-size hail.
June 2017HailHedrix-no account filed
June 2017HailHedrix-no account filed
May 2016HailHedrix-no account filed
July 2008HailHedrix-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Powell2.6 miles10
Helvey4.3 miles10
Gladstone4.7 miles10
Bower (historical)5.2 miles10
Fairbury5.7 miles11
Meridian (historical)6.6 miles10
Jansen8.5 miles11
Daykin8.7 miles10

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.

Wikidata item Q122547056The 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 835320. 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.