Lindy, Nebraska
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Hill Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68718. It stands on Hoboe Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lindy quadrangle. 13 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,611 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLindy grew from 13 to 13 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 | 13 | |
| 2020 | 13 | 0 (0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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 Sioux City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Lindy quadrangle1:24000
- 1977 USGS Lindy quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Yankton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Lindy between 1999 and 2020, burning about 165 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 July 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Winnebago Agency | LINDY |
| 9 April 2008 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 5.0 acres | Winnebago Agency | FOUNDATION |
| 12 April 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 120 acres | Winnebago Agency | EARLY MORNING |
| 24 March 1999 | Smoking | 40 acres | Winnebago Agency | SR01 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
14 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lindy in 14 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 7 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2023 | Hail | Lindy | - | Public reported 1-inch hail. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Lindy | - | Public reported 2 inch hail. |
| March 2019 | Flood | Lindy | - | Highway 12 was closed between 537th and 539th due to flooding over the highway. Dollar damage amounts for all of Knox County are included in the Niobrara River flood entry. |
| August 2019 | Hail | Lindy | - | The public reported golf ball size hail. |
| August 2019 | Hail | Lindy | - | The public reported hail up to tennis ball size. This created substantial crop damage in the area. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lindy | - | Trees blown down. Windows blown out from wind driven hail. |
| July 2019 | Hail | Lindy | - | Spotters reported golf ball size hail northwest of Bloomfield. |
| June 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Lindy | - | A brief touchdown of a small tornado was reported by law enforcement officials near Lindy. |
| June 2003 | Flash Flood | Lindy | - | Heavy rain caused extensive flash flooding of farm fields and some county roads near Lindy. Highway 12 near Bazile Creek was also closed briefly due to flood waters. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lindy | - | Possible thunderstorm microburst downed tress south of Lindy. A funnel cloud was also reported in the area. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lindy | - | High winds caused some damage to farms. Trees downed. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Lindy | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lindy | - | no account filed |
| August 1993 | Hail | Lindy | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tewsville | 1.6 miles | 9 | |
| Santee | 9.4 miles | 9 | |
| Bloomfield | 10.6 miles | 10 | |
| Center | 11.2 miles | 10 | |
| Crofton | 13.0 miles | 9 | |
| Sparta | 13.5 miles | 10 | |
| Niobrara | 15.4 miles | 11 | |
| Bazile Mills | 17.6 miles | 10 |
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 Lindy | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4164693 | 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 830745. 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.





