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.
Population over time
2 figuresIndianola 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 584 | |
| 2020 | 524 | -60 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1954 USGS McCook quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS McCook quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Indianola quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS McCook quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS McCook quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
43 since 2007Regional 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 use | 12 |
| Debris and open burning | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 2 August 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 19 August 2013 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 31 July 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 16 July 2011 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 11 July 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 1 July 2017 | Fireworks | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 30 June 2012 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
41 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1996 | Tornado (F2) | Indianola | $750,000 | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Indianola | $10,000 | Damage 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 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Indianola | $2,000 | A large tree was destroyed and a camper trailer was moved at a residence in Indianola. |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Indianola | $2,000 | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Indianola | $100 | Large tree uprooted by thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Indianola | - | Trained spotter estimates 50-60 mph wind gusts. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Indianola | - | Pea to penny sized hail. Most of the hail was pea to dime in size. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Indianola | - | Numerous pea to dime sized hail with a few quarters mixed in. |
| August 2023 | Hail | Indianola | - | Report received of golf ball to hen egg sized hail at location that lasted for approximately 20 minutes. Time is estimated from radar. |
| August 2023 | Hail | Indianola | - | Report received of ping pong ball sized hail at location. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Indianola | - | Pubic estimated 70 mph winds as the storm moved over the location. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Indianola | - | Hail was reported in Indianola ranging in size from quarter to golf ball. |
| August 2021 | Hail | Indianola | - | The hail ranged from pea to quarter in size. |
| August 2020 | Hail | Indianola | - | Golf ball sized hail reportedly fell at the location for a duration of 5 minutes. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Indianola | - | Estimated by storm chaser. |
| May 2016 | Tornado (EF0) | Indianola | - | Landspout developed northeast of town. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Indianola | - | Estimated time of event from radar. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Indianola | - | Emergency Manager estimated the gusts to be 60 MPH. |
| May 2003 | Hail | Indianola | - | Two windows broken at local business due to golfball hail and strong winds. |
| May 2002 | Tornado (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 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Indianola | - | Thunderstorm Winds ripped off shingles and turned over loose objects from McCook to Indianola. Park in Indianola suffered tree damage. |
| May 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Indianola | - | Brief tornado over open country. |
| May 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Indianola | - | A mobile home roof was blown off by thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Indianola | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Indianola | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Indianola | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Indianola | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Indianola | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Indianola | - | no account filed |
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Indianola | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Indianola | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Indianola | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Indianola | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Indianola | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Indianola | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Indianola | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Indianola | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Indianola | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Hail | Indianola | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Tornado (F0) | Indianola | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Tornado (F1) | Indianola | - | 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.
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 Indianola | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q958112 | 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 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.




