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Humphrey, Nebraska

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Granville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68642. The Survey maps it on the Humphrey quadrangle. 857 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,670 feet above sea level.

Humphrey within Platte County

On record in Humphrey

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Humphrey grew from 760 to 857 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
2010760
2020857+97 (+13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

3 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Humphrey between 2004 and 2015, burning about 1 acre 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
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
25 May 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
31 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
30 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Platte County

Storms near this place

46 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Humphrey in 46 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 23 hail, 17 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 flood. 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
October 2001Thunderstorm WindHumphrey$40,000This storm produced thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at around 80 mph downing numerous trees and large tree limbs in the Humphrey area. Also a city maintenance building roof was blown off. Although funnel clouds were reported with the storm, no tornadoes touched down in the Humphrey area according to the Platte county Emergency Manager.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindHumphrey$20,000Besides possibly producing the spin up tornado in Humphrey, the strong winds associated with the thunderstorm that caused extensive damage in the Lindsay area, also caused damage in Humphrey. Besides tree damage, a newly erected grain bin was partially destroyed. An insurance agency in Humphrey reported at least 17 center pivots in the area were overturned, although this number may include some of those reported in the Lindsay area.
June 1999Flash FloodHumphrey$10,000Three to 5 inches of rain in northern Platte county caused extensive flash flooding which closed highway 91 just west of its junction with highway 81. A pickup with 2 people in it was washed off of highway 91 near Humphrey and swept 1/2 mile downstream totally destroying the truck. The occupants were not hurt.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindHumphrey$5,000Winds over 60 mph blew down signs along highway 81 in northern Platte County.
May 2008Flash FloodHumphrey$2,000Heavy rain produced flash flooding along Tracy Creek near Humphrey which flooded across Highway 91.
October 2007FloodHumphrey$2,000no account filed
March 2025HailHumphrey-Public of dime to quarter size hail falling for 5 minutes with 40 to 50 mph wind gusts.
July 2025HailHumphrey-Report of hail estimated up to 1 in. in diameter. Report received via mPING.
June 2024HailHumphrey-This is the start of a swath of golf ball sized hail reported to the office from the public.
June 2024HailHumphrey-The office received a report from a trained spotter of quarter sized hail.
June 2024HailHumphrey-An off-duty NWS employee reported half-dollar sized hail. There as also an additional public report of quarter sized hail during this time frame.
July 2023HailHumphrey-Public reported via social media 2.5-inch hail.
July 2023HailHumphrey-Public reported 1-inch hail.
July 2023HailHumphrey-Public reported 1.25-inch hail.
July 2023HailHumphrey-Trained spotter reported up to quarter sized hail.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindHumphrey-Public reported via photos of a farm outbuilding with the roof partially removed. Several large trees were also down in the area.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindHumphrey-Public reported numerous large limbs down on Steepleview Golf Course.
October 2020HailHumphrey-Report from MPing for 1.25 inch hail.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindHumphrey-A spotter reported damage to buildings in Humphrey near the Highway 81 and 91 junction. Grain trucks were also blown over. Power was also reported out.
July 2018HailHumphrey-Golf ball size hail was reported by the Humphrey Police.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindHumphrey-Two 400,000 bushel grain bins blown over. Six tin outbuildings destroyed. Multiple power poles snapped. Shingle damage to a few homes. Widespread hail damage.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindHumphrey-Power lines were blown down. Windshields were damaged from the hail, but the hail size was not given.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindHumphrey-A 79 mph wind gust was measured at a personal weather station northeast of Humphrey.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindHumphrey-A large tree and power lines were blown down.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindHumphrey-The local COOP observer estimated wind gusts to 60 mph at this location.
July 2014HailHumphrey-Hail to 1 inch in diamater was reported in the town of Humphrey, and the hail continued south of town where the public reported hail up to golf ball size.
March 2012HailHumphrey-Nickel to quarter-size hail was reported in the Humphrey area.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindHumphrey-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph caused grain bin damage in the Humphrey area.
June 2011HailHumphrey-Hail, a few stones a little bigger than golfball-size, fell in the Humphrey area. There were some reports of baseball-size and larger stones in the area as well, although the larger stones were apparently few and far between and not confirmed. Some vehicle and crop damage was noted in the region.
July 2010Funnel CloudHumphrey-A funnel cloud was seen by many people from the Norfolk area to the north to Humphrey near it and Clarkson to the east. Several photographs from different angles were taken and sent to the NWS office. No damage was observed.
August 2007FloodHumphrey-Several days of heavy rain caused Tracy Creek to flood some county roads from around Humphrey to near Creston. A few other creeks in the area also flooded some farm fields and other county roads.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindHumphrey-Thunderstorm winds estimated at over 60 mph uprooted a few trees and caused other tree damage in the Humphrey area.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindHumphrey-Thunderstorms winds estimated at 60 mph knocked over a large cottonwood tree damaging a deck and downing a power line near town.
August 2004HailHumphrey-Wind driven hail up to nickel size stripped leaves from crops in the area.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindHumphrey-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at around 60 mph blew the top of a grain bin off which damaged a nearby windmill.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindHumphrey-Semi truck overturned by thunderstorm wind gusts. These winds reportedly occurred behind the main line of thunderstorms, possibly a wake low type event that sometimes occurs after intense thunderstorms pass through.
May 2000Tornado (F0)Humphrey-The Humphrey police reported a brief touchdown of a small tornado in Humphrey. This tornado possibly could have been spun up on the leading edge of the bow echo which did the most damage over northwest Platte county in the Lindsay area.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindHumphrey-Large tree limbs down plus some damage to crops and buildings around Humphrey.
June 2013HailHumphrey-no account filed
May 2012HailHumphrey-no account filed
September 2010HailHumphrey-no account filed
April 2004HailHumphrey-no account filed
May 2004HailHumphrey-no account filed
July 2003HailHumphrey-no account filed
September 2001HailHumphrey-no account filed
April 1999HailHumphrey-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Platte 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
Cornlea4.4 miles9
Tarnov5.3 miles9
Creston6.5 miles8
Saint Bernard7.9 miles9
Platte Center10.6 miles8
Lindsay11.1 miles9
Rosenborg14.9 miles9
Oconee15.4 miles14

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 HumphreyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q969017The 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 830201. 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.