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.
Population over time
2 figuresHubbell 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 68 | |
| 2020 | 63 | -5 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 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.
- 1955 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Hubbell quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Fairbury quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
6 since 2006Regional 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/undetermined | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 5 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1800003 |
| 15 March 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 18 February 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1800002 |
| 22 October 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 35 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 19 January 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1500002 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
38 since 2001Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2001 | Tornado (F1) | Hubbell | $500,000 | Brief tornado in Thayer county reported by the public |
| May 2004 | Hail | Hubbell | $150,000 | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Hubbell | $150,000 | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hubbell | $150,000 | no account filed |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hubbell | $100,000 | A 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 2008 | Tornado (EF1) | Hubbell | $50,000 | This 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 2001 | Tornado (F1) | Hubbell | $50,000 | no account filed |
| September 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hubbell | $25,000 | Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH and were accompanied by quarter size hail. |
| May 2004 | Hail | Hubbell | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Hubbell | $15,000 | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Hail | Hubbell | $15,000 | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Hubbell | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hubbell | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hubbell | $5,000 | Wind gusts estimated to be near 60 MPH resulted in some downed tree limbs in Hubbell. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Hubbell | $5,000 | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hubbell | $1,000 | Tree damage was reported in Hubbell, including a 2 foot diameter tree of unknown health that was snapped at the base. |
| September 2019 | Heavy Rain | Hubbell | - | A 24 hour rainfall total of 4.15 inches was reported. |
| June 2018 | Heavy Rain | Hubbell | - | 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 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hubbell | - | Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH. |
| April 2016 | Hail | Hubbell | - | Hail up to the size of nickels occurred for about 10 minutes. |
| September 2014 | Hail | Hubbell | - | Quarter size hail was accompanied by wind gusts near 60 MPH. |
| August 2010 | Heavy Rain | Hubbell | - | Storm total rainfall amount was 3.3 inches. |
| June 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Hubbell | - | Brief tornado in Thayer county. |
| September 2019 | Hail | Hubbell | - | no account filed |
| April 2017 | Hail | Hubbell | - | no account filed |
| April 2016 | Hail | Hubbell | - | no account filed |
| October 2016 | Hail | Hubbell | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Hubbell | - | no account filed |
| September 2015 | Hail | Hubbell | - | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Hail | Hubbell | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Hubbell | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Hubbell | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Hubbell | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hubbell | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Hubbell | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Hubbell | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Hubbell | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Hubbell | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Williams (historical) | 5.5 miles | 11 | |
| Chester | 6.4 miles | 13 | |
| Stoddard (historical) | 8.3 miles | 13 | |
| Gilead | 10.5 miles | 11 | |
| Hebron | 11.8 miles | 13 | |
| Byron | 14.4 miles | 12 | |
| Deshler | 15.0 miles | 13 | |
| Belvidere | 17.1 miles | 12 |
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 Hubbell | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3291431 | 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 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.




