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Hubbell, Nebraska

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Chester precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68375. The Survey maps it on the Hubbell quadrangle. 63 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,470 feet above sea level.

Hubbell within Thayer County

Population over time

2 figures

Hubbell fell from 68 to 63 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
201068
202063-5 (-7%)

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

6 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Hubbell between 2006 and 2018, burning about 108 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
28 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
5 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresKansas Forest Service1800003
15 March 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
18 February 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresKansas Forest Service1800002
22 October 2013Equipment and vehicle use35 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
19 January 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service1500002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Thayer County

Storms near this place

38 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hubbell in 38 storm reports between 2001 and 2023: 23 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 3 heavy rain. 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 2001Tornado (F1)Hubbell$500,000Brief tornado in Thayer county reported by the public
May 2004HailHubbell$150,000no account filed
May 2002HailHubbell$150,000no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindHubbell$150,000no account filed
August 2023Thunderstorm WindHubbell$100,000A wind gust of 63 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located three miles south-southeast of Gilead. Emergency management reported crop damage from Hubbell to Gilead, and minor roof damage to a hotel in Gilead.
May 2008Tornado (EF1)Hubbell$50,000This tornado originally started in Jewell County Kansas. It entered Thayer County from Republic County Kansas. It also exited Thayer County and entered Jefferson County. Tornado damage in the county started near Hubbell where a few homes had some roof damage. In rural Thayer County damage was basically limited to trees and power poles. One outbuilding lost part of its roof and a couple of grain bins were damaged.
July 2001Tornado (F1)Hubbell$50,000no account filed
September 2014Thunderstorm WindHubbell$25,000Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH and were accompanied by quarter size hail.
May 2004HailHubbell$25,000no account filed
June 2015HailHubbell$15,000no account filed
April 2010HailHubbell$15,000no account filed
August 2009HailHubbell$10,000no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindHubbell$10,000no account filed
June 2022Thunderstorm WindHubbell$5,000Wind gusts estimated to be near 60 MPH resulted in some downed tree limbs in Hubbell.
June 2009HailHubbell$5,000no account filed
September 2019Thunderstorm WindHubbell$1,000Tree damage was reported in Hubbell, including a 2 foot diameter tree of unknown health that was snapped at the base.
September 2019Heavy RainHubbell-A 24 hour rainfall total of 4.15 inches was reported.
June 2018Heavy RainHubbell-A CoCoRahs report of a storm total rainfall amount of 5.14 inches occurred three miles northeast of Chester, and a cooperative observer measured 3.80 inches in Hubbell.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindHubbell-Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH.
April 2016HailHubbell-Hail up to the size of nickels occurred for about 10 minutes.
September 2014HailHubbell-Quarter size hail was accompanied by wind gusts near 60 MPH.
August 2010Heavy RainHubbell-Storm total rainfall amount was 3.3 inches.
June 2001Tornado (F0)Hubbell-Brief tornado in Thayer county.
September 2019HailHubbell-no account filed
April 2017HailHubbell-no account filed
April 2016HailHubbell-no account filed
October 2016HailHubbell-no account filed
June 2015HailHubbell-no account filed
September 2015HailHubbell-no account filed
April 2010HailHubbell-no account filed
May 2010HailHubbell-no account filed
June 2009HailHubbell-no account filed
August 2009HailHubbell-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindHubbell-no account filed
May 2004HailHubbell-no account filed
June 2001HailHubbell-no account filed
June 2001HailHubbell-no account filed
June 2001HailHubbell-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Thayer 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
Williams (historical)5.5 miles11
Chester6.4 miles13
Stoddard (historical)8.3 miles13
Gilead10.5 miles11
Hebron11.8 miles13
Byron14.4 miles12
Deshler15.0 miles13
Belvidere17.1 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 HubbellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3291431The 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 830181. 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.