Hildreth, Nebraska
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Salem Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68947. The Survey maps it on the Hildreth quadrangle. 377 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,175 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresHildreth fell from 378 to 377 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 | 378 | |
| 2020 | 377 | -1 (-0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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.
- 1896 USGS Holdrege quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Grand Island quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Grand Island quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Grand Island quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Hildreth quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Holdrege quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
22 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Hildreth between 1994 and 2019, burning about 395 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 burning | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 2 August 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | Rainwater Basin Wetland Management District | PRAIRIE DG |
| 26 July 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 22 July 2014 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 2 July 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 1 July 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 3 June 2004 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 21 June 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
45 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hildreth in 45 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 25 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 6 heavy rain, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hildreth | $500,000 | Wind gusts were estimated at 65 MPH. Roof damage was reported in Hildreth, and a large tree was uprooted in the Campbell park and fell on a gazebo roof, with many other tree limbs up to 3 to 4 inches in diameter blown down around town. Small hail also accompanied these winds, and together resulted in a swath of crop damage approximately 3 to 4 miles wide, with the path running along and near Highway 4. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hildreth | $350,000 | A social media report noted a flipped irrigation pivot four miles southwest of Hildreth. A wind gust of 59 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located five miles south-southwest of Hildreth. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Hildreth | $75,000 | Hail accompanied by strong winds, and damage to a grain bin was reported. |
| June 2000 | Hail | Hildreth | $75,000 | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hildreth | $25,000 | Multiple trees were downed in town. Wind gusts were estimated, a nearby mesonet station recorded a gust of 63 MPH. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Hildreth | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Hildreth | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Hildreth | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hildreth | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Hildreth | $20,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Flash Flood | Hildreth | $15,000 | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Hildreth | $4,000 | no account filed |
| October 2023 | Tornado (EF1) | Hildreth | $2,000 | This tornado was the strongest and longest of the day, touching down in Franklin County and crossing into Kearney County. This EF1 rated tornado with estimated peak winds of 90 MPH was on the ground for just over six miles and for about 10 minutes. Early on, the damage path was primarily found via corn stalks in fence and power|lines. Eventually the tornado overturned two pivots before reaching a farmstead near Highway 10 about eight miles south of Minden. Most structural damage was at the farmstead, including part of garage wall pushed from its foundation, damage to windows and trees and the top torn from a grain bin. The tornado crossed|the highway and gradually dissipated. The EF1 rating and subsequent 90 MPH wind speed estimate was based upon the damage to the garage, grain bin and tree damage at the farmstead. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hildreth | - | A wind gust of 66 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located seven miles east-northeast of Huntley. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hildreth | - | A wind gust of 59 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located seven miles east-northeast of Huntley. |
| October 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hildreth | - | Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH one mile south-southeast of Wilcox. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hildreth | - | A wind gust of 59 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located in Hildreth. |
| September 2018 | Heavy Rain | Hildreth | - | A multi-day rainfall total of 5.83 was reported 6 miles southwest of Hildreth. |
| September 2018 | Heavy Rain | Hildreth | - | Twenty-four hour rainfall totals of 4.40 and 3.79 inches was reported in the Hildreth area, with the brunt of the rain falling between 5 PM CDT on the 1st and 4 AM CDT on the 2nd. |
| July 2017 | Heavy Rain | Hildreth | - | A storm total rainfall amount of 4.90 inches was measured. |
| July 2017 | Heavy Rain | Hildreth | - | A storm total rainfall amount of 4.40 inches was measured. |
| July 2017 | Heavy Rain | Hildreth | - | A storm total rainfall amount of 4.94 inches was measured. |
| June 2014 | Tornado (EF0) | Hildreth | - | This tornado touched down approximately 3 miles south-southwest of Hildreth and caused no damage. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Hildreth | - | Quarter sized hail was ongoing as of 503 pm CDT. |
| October 2011 | Heavy Rain | Hildreth | - | Total rainfall over the past 24 hours of 3.02 inches was reported by a Nebraska Rainfall Assessment and Information Network observer. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hildreth | - | Wind gusts estimated at 60 mph. |
| June 1995 | Hail | Hildreth | - | Hail, driven by winds of 45 mph, caused crop damage. |
| June 1995 | Hail | Hildreth | - | Hail, driven by winds of 45 mph, caused crop damage. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Hildreth | - | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Hail | Hildreth | - | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | Hildreth | - | no account filed |
| October 2023 | Hail | Hildreth | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Hildreth | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | Hildreth | - | no account filed |
| April 2019 | Hail | Hildreth | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Hildreth | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Hildreth | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Hildreth | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Hildreth | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Hail | Hildreth | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Hildreth | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hildreth | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Hildreth | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hildreth | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Hildreth | - | 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.
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 Hildreth | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2281410 | 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 829994. 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.





