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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.

Hildreth within Franklin County

Population over time

2 figures

Hildreth 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.

YearPeople Change
2010378
2020377-1 (-0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

22 since 1994

Regional 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 burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
19 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
2 August 1997Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresRainwater Basin Wetland Management DistrictPRAIRIE DG
26 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
22 July 2014Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
2 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
1 July 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
3 June 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
21 June 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

45 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2011Thunderstorm WindHildreth$500,000Wind 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 2024Thunderstorm WindHildreth$350,000A 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 2009HailHildreth$75,000Hail accompanied by strong winds, and damage to a grain bin was reported.
June 2000HailHildreth$75,000no account filed
May 2017Thunderstorm WindHildreth$25,000Multiple trees were downed in town. Wind gusts were estimated, a nearby mesonet station recorded a gust of 63 MPH.
May 2019HailHildreth$25,000no account filed
May 2015HailHildreth$25,000no account filed
June 2012HailHildreth$25,000no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindHildreth$25,000no account filed
May 2009HailHildreth$20,000no account filed
May 2004Flash FloodHildreth$15,000no account filed
May 1999HailHildreth$4,000no account filed
October 2023Tornado (EF1)Hildreth$2,000This 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 2024Thunderstorm WindHildreth-A wind gust of 66 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located seven miles east-northeast of Huntley.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindHildreth-A wind gust of 59 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located seven miles east-northeast of Huntley.
October 2023Thunderstorm WindHildreth-Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH one mile south-southeast of Wilcox.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindHildreth-A wind gust of 59 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located in Hildreth.
September 2018Heavy RainHildreth-A multi-day rainfall total of 5.83 was reported 6 miles southwest of Hildreth.
September 2018Heavy RainHildreth-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 2017Heavy RainHildreth-A storm total rainfall amount of 4.90 inches was measured.
July 2017Heavy RainHildreth-A storm total rainfall amount of 4.40 inches was measured.
July 2017Heavy RainHildreth-A storm total rainfall amount of 4.94 inches was measured.
June 2014Tornado (EF0)Hildreth-This tornado touched down approximately 3 miles south-southwest of Hildreth and caused no damage.
June 2013HailHildreth-Quarter sized hail was ongoing as of 503 pm CDT.
October 2011Heavy RainHildreth-Total rainfall over the past 24 hours of 3.02 inches was reported by a Nebraska Rainfall Assessment and Information Network observer.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindHildreth-Wind gusts estimated at 60 mph.
June 1995HailHildreth-Hail, driven by winds of 45 mph, caused crop damage.
June 1995HailHildreth-Hail, driven by winds of 45 mph, caused crop damage.
June 2024HailHildreth-no account filed
June 2024HailHildreth-no account filed
May 2024HailHildreth-no account filed
October 2023HailHildreth-no account filed
May 2019HailHildreth-no account filed
July 2019HailHildreth-no account filed
April 2019HailHildreth-no account filed
June 2018HailHildreth-no account filed
May 2016HailHildreth-no account filed
May 2013HailHildreth-no account filed
May 2013HailHildreth-no account filed
August 2011HailHildreth-no account filed
May 2002HailHildreth-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindHildreth-no account filed
May 1996HailHildreth-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindHildreth-no account filed
May 1996HailHildreth-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Upland7.7 miles12
Macon10.3 miles12
Campbell16.7 miles12
Bloomington16.8 miles13
Franklin17.3 miles12
Naponee18.7 miles13
Riverton22.8 miles12

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 HildrethAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2281410The 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.