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Indianola, Nebraska

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Indianola precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69034. It stands on Coon Creek. The Survey maps it on the Indianola quadrangle. 524 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,382 feet above sea level.

Indianola within Red Willow County

Population over time

2 figures

Indianola fell from 584 to 524 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
2010584
2020524-60 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

43 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Indianola between 2007 and 2018, burning about 133 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 use12
Debris and open burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Fireworks2
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
2 August 2008Equipment and vehicle use15 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
19 August 2013Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
31 July 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
16 July 2011Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
11 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
1 July 2017Fireworks1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
30 June 2012Natural1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Red Willow County

Storms near this place

41 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Indianola in 41 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 20 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 6 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1996Tornado (F2)Indianola$750,000no account filed
September 2007Thunderstorm WindIndianola$10,000Damage to farmstead. Porch roof blown off...damaged outbuildings and scattered sheet metal around yard. Radar indicated strong outflow winds from thunderstorm. Wind speed estimated and time based on radar.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindIndianola$2,000A large tree was destroyed and a camper trailer was moved at a residence in Indianola.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindIndianola$2,000no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindIndianola$100Large tree uprooted by thunderstorm winds.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindIndianola-Trained spotter estimates 50-60 mph wind gusts.
May 2024HailIndianola-Pea to penny sized hail. Most of the hail was pea to dime in size.
May 2024HailIndianola-Numerous pea to dime sized hail with a few quarters mixed in.
August 2023HailIndianola-Report received of golf ball to hen egg sized hail at location that lasted for approximately 20 minutes. Time is estimated from radar.
August 2023HailIndianola-Report received of ping pong ball sized hail at location.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindIndianola-Pubic estimated 70 mph winds as the storm moved over the location.
June 2022HailIndianola-Hail was reported in Indianola ranging in size from quarter to golf ball.
August 2021HailIndianola-The hail ranged from pea to quarter in size.
August 2020HailIndianola-Golf ball sized hail reportedly fell at the location for a duration of 5 minutes.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindIndianola-Estimated by storm chaser.
May 2016Tornado (EF0)Indianola-Landspout developed northeast of town.
June 2015HailIndianola-Estimated time of event from radar.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindIndianola-Emergency Manager estimated the gusts to be 60 MPH.
May 2003HailIndianola-Two windows broken at local business due to golfball hail and strong winds.
May 2002Tornado (F0)Indianola-Weak tornado developed 6 miles north of Indianola in northeast Red Willow County. The tornado remained over open fields as it traversed 4.5 miles in 11 minutes for an average forward speed of 25 mph. The tornado dissipated approximately 3 miles northeast of Indianola. No known injuries or damage.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindIndianola-Thunderstorm Winds ripped off shingles and turned over loose objects from McCook to Indianola. Park in Indianola suffered tree damage.
May 1998Tornado (F0)Indianola-Brief tornado over open country.
May 1993Thunderstorm WindIndianola-A mobile home roof was blown off by thunderstorm winds.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindIndianola-no account filed
June 2022Thunderstorm WindIndianola-no account filed
June 2022HailIndianola-no account filed
June 2022HailIndianola-no account filed
June 2022HailIndianola-no account filed
June 2018Thunderstorm WindIndianola-no account filed
April 2017Thunderstorm WindIndianola-no account filed
July 2017Thunderstorm WindIndianola-no account filed
August 2006HailIndianola-no account filed
August 2006HailIndianola-no account filed
June 2005HailIndianola-no account filed
July 2004HailIndianola-no account filed
June 1999HailIndianola-no account filed
May 1998HailIndianola-no account filed
June 1997HailIndianola-no account filed
August 1996HailIndianola-no account filed
August 1996Tornado (F0)Indianola-no account filed
August 1996Tornado (F1)Indianola-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Red Willow 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 Willow4.3 miles8
Bartley5.7 miles8
McCook11.3 miles8
Danbury13.5 miles8
Lebanon14.7 miles9
Marion15.4 miles8
Perry16.3 miles8
Shippee16.6 miles8

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 IndianolaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q958112The 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 830293. 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.