Hordville, Nebraska
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Precinct 7. It lies in ZIP code area 68846. The Survey maps it on the Central City East quadrangle. 131 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,772 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresHordville fell from 144 to 131 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 | 144 | |
| 2020 | 131 | -13 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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.
- 1896 USGS Stromsburg quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Central City East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS David City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
10 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Hordville between 2009 and 2020, burning about 8 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 28 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 22 April 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 6 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 29 March 2014 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 26 March 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 24 March 2011 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 13 March 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
29 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hordville in 29 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 10 hail, 9 heavy rain, 8 thunderstorm wind, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hordville | $100,000 | Wind gusts estimated to be near 75 MPH resulted in damaged and destroyed empty grain bins as well as some tree damage. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hordville | $65,000 | Wind gusts estimated at 70 MPH resulted in a few tree limbs of 4 to 6 inches being knocked down and an irrigation pivot being tipped over. |
| May 2011 | Flash Flood | Hordville | $25,000 | Water was reported over a number of county roads, as well as Highway 66 east of Hordville. While the primary flooding threat ended during the late evening hours and water then began to recede, area creeks continued to run high and ditches were full well into the morning hours of May 13th. |
| May 2005 | Hail | Hordville | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hordville | $15,000 | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Hordville | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Hordville | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Hordville | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hordville | $1,000 | Wind gusts estimated to be near 65 MPH resulted in a tree being blown over. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hordville | $1,000 | Wind gusts estimated to be near 60 MPH resulted in tree limbs being downed. |
| October 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hordville | - | A wind gust of 61 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located three miles west of Hordville. |
| May 2017 | Heavy Rain | Hordville | - | A rainfall total of 3.25 inches fell between 1 and 5 am CDT. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hordville | - | Wind gusts estimated to be near 60 MPH resulted in some small tree branches being downed in the area. |
| August 2017 | Heavy Rain | Hordville | - | A 24-hour precipitation amount of 3.74 inches was recorded 4 mile southwest of Polk. |
| August 2017 | Heavy Rain | Hordville | - | A 24-hour precipitation amount of 4.30 inches was recorded 2 miles northeast of Hordville. |
| May 2016 | Heavy Rain | Hordville | - | Storm total rainfall report was 4.35 inches. |
| May 2016 | Heavy Rain | Hordville | - | Storm total rainfall report was 4.36 inches. |
| June 2015 | Heavy Rain | Hordville | - | A 24-hour rainfall total of 3.46...most of which fell on the evening of the 10th. |
| April 2014 | Heavy Rain | Hordville | - | A 24 hour rainfall total of 3.01 inches occurred about 3 miles southeast of Hordville. This report was from an NERAIN observer. |
| October 2013 | Heavy Rain | Hordville | - | A rainfall total of 3.24 inches occurred. |
| July 2011 | Heavy Rain | Hordville | - | Total rainfall over the past 24 hours of 4.65 inches was reported by a Nebraska Rainfall Assessment and Information Network observer. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hordville | - | Tree limbs up to 18 inches in diamater were blown down. Winds were accompanied by pea to dime size hail. |
| October 2001 | Tornado (F1) | Hordville | - | Tornado crossed from Hamilton County into Polk County. |
| June 2021 | Hail | Hordville | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Hordville | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Hordville | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Hordville | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Hordville | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Hordville | - | 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 Hordville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2195338 | 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 830132. 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.





