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Louisville, Nebraska

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Louisville precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68037. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Manley quadrangle. 1,319 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,063 feet above sea level.

Louisville within Cass County

On record in Louisville

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Louisville grew from 1,106 to 1,319 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
20101,106
20201,319+213 (+19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

6 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Louisville in 2020, burning about 170 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 burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
6 March 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 March 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
5 March 2020Debris and open burning169 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
29 February 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
2 February 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
16 October 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Louisville: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Calcium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ash Grove Quarry & CrusherCalciumProducer
Ash Grove Cement PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Louisville Plant Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Cass County

Storms near this place

41 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Louisville in 41 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 18 hail, 15 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
July 1994Thunderstorm WindLouisville$500,000Thunderstorm winds caused considerable damage at a farmstead. A dairy barn and other outbuildings were destroyed or heavily damaged. There was also some damage to crops.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindLouisville$10,000Farm buildings were damaged east of Louisville by thunderstorm winds estimated at over 60 mph.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindLouisville$3,000Large tree fell on a car and crushed it.
April 2025HailLouisville-Public report of hail estimated up to 1 in diameter.
April 2025HailLouisville-Public report of hail estimated up to 1.50 in diameter. Report received via mPING.
April 2025HailLouisville-Public report of hail measured up to 1.25 in diameter.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindLouisville-A 70 miles per hour wind gust was reported by the Emergency Manager.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindLouisville-A mesonet station recorded a 59 miles per hour wind gust.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindLouisville-An 89 miles per hour wind gust was recorded by a mesonet station.
April 2022HailLouisville-Public reported 1.5 inch hail via mPing.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindLouisville-Emergency manager relayed report of peak wind gust near 60 mph in Louisville.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindLouisville-Personal weather station measured peak wind gust of 63 mph.
September 2018Heavy RainLouisville-The Emergency Manager reported 1.44 inches of rain.
June 2018Tornado (EF0)Louisville-Storm chasers spotted a cone shaped tornado that touched down briefly.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindLouisville-An extensive area of damaging thunderstorm winds extended from Louisville to north of Murray. The path of extensive downed trees, power lines and large limbs occurred in a swath in Cass County that was 16 miles long and 4-5 miles wide. Winds up to 80 mph occurred from these storms. The damage started near Louisville, where there were many large trees blown down. The damage was accentuated by hail up to 1 1/2 inches in diameter that broke numerous windows in homes in the city. Extensive damage occurred at Lake Wa Con-da where numerous power poles were blown down, trees down, and roof damage to homes occurred. Multiple trees were down in Cedar Creek with boats being torn away from their docks.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindLouisville-A spotter estimated a wind gust to near 60 mph, but no damage was reported.
June 2009HailLouisville-The hail dented at least one car in the area. The hail could have been larger according to the person who reported it the next day.
June 2008HailLouisville-Near the intersection of 120th and Church.
June 2008Tornado (EF1)Louisville-A tornado did intermittent damage from 3 miles southwest of Louisville to 2 miles southwest of Cedar Creek. Scattered tree damage was reported in this area and some farm outbuildings were destroyed. A mobile home southwest of Cedar Creek was moved 8 inches off of its foundation.
June 2008HailLouisville-The hail fell for about 5 minutes and was accompanied by thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph which caused some unspecified damage.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindLouisville-Thunderstorm winds estimated at around 60 mph caused unspecified damage in the Louisville area according to emergency management.
June 2008Flash FloodLouisville-Heavy rain produced flash flooding blocking roads near the intersection of 156th and Kiser Streets just south of Louisville.
June 2008FloodLouisville-Additional heavy rain producing thunderstorm fell across parts of the Platte River basin on June 4th and 5th. This caused the already high Platte River to briefly go over its banks around the Louisville area from late morning until early evening on June 6th. The river at Louisville crested around 9.2 feet at 345 pm on June 6th, flood stage is 9 feet. The flooding affected mainly just agricultural lowlands.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindLouisville-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph downed eight inch tree limbs at the Louisville State Recreation Area.
March 2007HailLouisville-Hail up to golfball size fell around the Louisville area. The hail covered the ground white in the area.
June 2005Flash FloodLouisville-Slow moving thunderstorms dropped heavy rain on the Louisville area whiched caused flash flooding across Depot Street in town.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindLouisville-A thunderstorm wind gust was estimated at around 60 mph by a law enforcement official.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindLouisville-Thunderstorm winds estimated at over 60 mph at Buckneer Bay near Louisville.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindLouisville-Thunderstorm winds downed power lines and knocked down several large tree branches in the Louisville area.
June 2000Flash FloodLouisville-Heavy rainfall of over 3 inches caused flash flooding south of Louisville. The flood waters went over highway 50 south of town closing it for a few hours.
May 1995HailLouisville-A vertically stacked area of low pressure over Kansas produced a large area of thunderstorms over the northern half of Kansas late in the afternoon. By early evening, these thunderstorms had moved into southeast Nebraska. Strong cyclonic flow around the cold upper low allowed tornadoes to spin down over Nemaha, Johnson, Cass, and Lancaster Counties in Nebraska; and Fremont County in Iowa.
September 2018HailLouisville-no account filed
September 2008HailLouisville-no account filed
May 2006HailLouisville-no account filed
June 2005HailLouisville-no account filed
June 2005HailLouisville-no account filed
June 2005HailLouisville-no account filed
June 2005HailLouisville-no account filed
June 2000HailLouisville-no account filed
June 2000HailLouisville-no account filed
June 1996Tornado (F0)Louisville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cass 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
Cedar Creek4.3 miles18
South Bend4.4 miles17
Manley5.4 miles13
Murdock8.0 miles14
Cullom8.4 miles18
Weeping Water8.9 miles13
Wabash9.1 miles14
Buccaneer Bay11.6 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 LouisvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2734889The 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 830916. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.