Madrid, Nebraska
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in District 1. It lies in ZIP code area 69150. The Survey maps it on the Madrid quadrangle. 242 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,301 feet above sea level.
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Population over time
2 figuresMadrid grew from 231 to 242 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 | 231 | |
| 2020 | 242 | +11 (+5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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 McCook quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1973 USGS Madrid quadrangle1:24000
- 1979 USGS Imperial quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Madrid in 2012, burning about 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 March 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this place
60 of 66 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Madrid in 66 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 47 hail, 16 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Madrid | $100,000 | A wet downburst caused damage to one business, destroyed a small greenhouse and rolled over a semi truck trailer. Two pickup trucks also sustained damage. The business had two tall garage doors destroyed with two windows broken and one side door damaged as well. |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Madrid | $100,000 | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Madrid | $15,000 | Thunderstorm winds flipped a pivot onto its side and damaged a grain bin. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Madrid | $10,000 | The outflow winds from a strong thunderstorm downed trees and powers poles. |
| May 2005 | Hail | Madrid | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Madrid | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Madrid | $8,000 | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Madrid | $7,000 | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Madrid | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Madrid | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Madrid | $4,000 | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Hail | Madrid | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Madrid | $1,000 | General public located 3 miles south of Madrid reported quarter size hail and widespread tree damage. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Madrid | $1,000 | Windows and screens were broken from hail. |
| May 2024 | Tornado (EFU) | Madrid | - | Tornado touched down in an open draw and tracked approximately 6 miles to the southeast where it dissipated. No damage was observed and timing was based on radar. |
| May 2023 | Funnel Cloud | Madrid | - | Storm chaser reports funnel clouds 1 to 2 miles west of Madrid. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Madrid | - | Quarter size hail, 40 to 50 MPH winds and blowing dust reported at this location. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Madrid | - | Thunderstorm wind gust of 60 MPH estimated at this location. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Madrid | - | A grain storage building lost half its roof, which was thrown 250 yards into a garage. The garage also sustained damage. |
| July 2020 | Hail | Madrid | - | A trained weather spotter reported half dollar size hail in Madrid. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Madrid | - | Report is estimated wind speeds from the public. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Madrid | - | Several pivots overturned 6 to 10 miles southeast of Madrid. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Madrid | - | Winds gusted to 60 MPH that damaged corn crops northeast of Grant. |
| August 2011 | Hail | Madrid | - | Hail caused great crop damage across the northeast portions of Perkins county. Crops were 100 percent mature at the time the storms passed and loss to over 1000 acres of crops varied from minor to total loss. |
| July 2007 | Hail | Madrid | - | Corn and wheat crops were destroyed by the large hail. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Madrid | - | Large trees were down. |
| May 1995 | Hail | Madrid | - | Total crop loss in area due to large hail. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Madrid | - | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | Madrid | - | no account filed |
| September 2022 | Hail | Madrid | - | no account filed |
| August 2021 | Hail | Madrid | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Madrid | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Madrid | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Madrid | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Madrid | - | no account filed |
| August 2018 | Hail | Madrid | - | no account filed |
| August 2018 | Hail | Madrid | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Madrid | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Madrid | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Madrid | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Madrid | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Madrid | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Madrid | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Madrid | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Madrid | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Madrid | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Madrid | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Madrid | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Madrid | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Madrid | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Madrid | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Madrid | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Madrid | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Madrid | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Madrid | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Madrid | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Madrid | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Madrid | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Madrid | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Madrid | - | 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 Madrid | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2323298 | 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 830998. 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.




