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Inavale, Nebraska

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1985. It stands in District 3. It lies in ZIP code area 68952. It stands on Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Inavale quadrangle. 66 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,736 feet above sea level.

Inavale within Webster County

On record in Inavale

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

Inavale fell from 117 to 66 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
2010117
202066-51 (-44%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

12 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Inavale between 2015 and 2020, burning about 70 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 burning5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3

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
29 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
12 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
1 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
28 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
2 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
1 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
23 February 2020Debris and open burning5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
10 February 2020Debris and open burning4.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Webster County

Storms near this place

42 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Inavale in 42 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 19 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 3 flash 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
June 2014Thunderstorm WindInavale$2,000,000A line of thunderstorms with damaging wind gusts up to 80 MPH moved across the county. Numerous power poles were downed in the Inavale, Red Cloud and Guide Rock areas. Power outages were also reported. Several trees, including ones large in diameter, were damage or uprooted. In Guide Rock, a garage was blown off its foundation partially onto a roadway.
June 2004Tornado (F1)Inavale$500,000A tornado cut across Webster County shortly after sunset. The tornado caused damage at about half-dozen locations during its journey.
May 2019FloodInavale$100,000Heavy rainfall caused the flooding of area creeks and the Republican River. Numerous rural roads and bridges were under water. The Republican River gauge near Guide Rock crested at 15.12 feet the afternoon of the 28th, and that was the 2nd highest crest on record.
June 2017HailInavale$75,000Hail ranged in size from quarter to ping pong balls.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindInavale$50,000Wind gusts were estimated to be at least 70 MPH. West of Red Cloud, hay bales were pushed onto a nearby county road. Several large trees were damaged or uprooted in Red Cloud. A tin roof was also damaged, and a few power poles on the north side of town were damaged, resulting in a loss of power.
May 2008Flash FloodInavale$50,000Numerous areas in Webster County picked up 3 to 4 inches of rain. This caused many rural roads to flood.
July 1997HailInavale$35,000no account filed
May 2008Flash FloodInavale$30,000Thunderstorms moved northeast out of northern Kansas and into southern Nebraska and dumped several inches of rain in southern Webster County during the evening and nighttime hours. This caused several roads and small creeks to become flooded.
June 2017HailInavale$25,000no account filed
May 2012HailInavale$25,000no account filed
May 1999Flash FloodInavale$20,000no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindInavale$10,000no account filed
June 2017Thunderstorm WindInavale$5,000The emergency manager reported several broken tree branches and a broken flagpole.
July 2008HailInavale$5,000no account filed
September 2009HailInavale$2,000Living room window was broken out of one home.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindInavale-Wind gusts were estimated to be near 70 MPH, resulting in zero visibility due to blowing dust.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindInavale-A wind gust of 59 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located five miles north-northeast of Inavale.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindInavale-A wind gust of 67 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located seven miles north of Inavale.
April 2023HailInavale-Hail ranging in size from quarters to golf balls was reported along and within a few miles either side of this path.
July 2022Heavy RainInavale-Heavy rain fell across the northern half of Webster County, with the majority occurring between 9 PM and midnight. The highest measured amount by a mesonet station was 4.76 inches, located five miles north of Inavale. Numerous social media reports of 3-6 inches of rain came from areas in and near Bladen, as well as east-southeast of Campbell.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindInavale-A wind gust of 71 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located five miles north-northeast of Inavale.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindInavale-A wind gust of 58 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located two miles west-southwest of Inavale.
May 2017Heavy RainInavale-A total of 4.25 inches of rain had fallen since 6 PM CDT.
May 2017Heavy RainInavale-A total of 4.25 inches of rain had fallen since 6 PM CDT.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindInavale-This was a peak gust measured at a home station.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindInavale-Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH near the Franklin and Webster County line along Highway 136.
June 2014Tornado (EF0)Inavale-This tornado touched down approximately 3 miles southwest of Inavale and caused no damage.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindInavale-Wind gusts estimated at 60 MPH, knocking a tree down onto Highway 136.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindInavale-Wind gusts estimated at 60 mph.
May 2024HailInavale-no account filed
September 2023HailInavale-no account filed
August 2023HailInavale-no account filed
May 2021HailInavale-no account filed
March 2019HailInavale-no account filed
May 2017HailInavale-no account filed
July 2010HailInavale-no account filed
June 2010HailInavale-no account filed
April 2007HailInavale-no account filed
September 2007HailInavale-no account filed
March 2006HailInavale-no account filed
July 2003HailInavale-no account filed
May 1996Tornado (F0)Inavale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Webster 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
Red Cloud6.9 miles15
Lester Junction10.9 miles11
Amboy11.2 miles11
Cowles12.1 miles11
Pawnee Village13.2 miles11
Bladen16.2 miles12
Guide Rock16.9 miles11
Blue Hill19.8 miles11

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 InavaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4163946The 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 830264. 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.