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Meadow Grove, Nebraska

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Meadow Grove-Jefferson precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68752. It stands on Buffalo Creek. The Survey maps it on the Meadow Grove quadrangle. 287 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,631 feet above sea level.

Meadow Grove within Madison County

On record in Meadow Grove

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Meadow Grove fell from 301 to 287 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
2010301
2020287-14 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

10 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Meadow Grove between 2004 and 2019, burning about 72 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/undetermined5
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 April 2011Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
5 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
29 March 2009Debris and open burning10 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
23 March 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
23 March 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
16 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
10 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
27 February 2016Debris and open burning40 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

40 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Meadow Grove in 40 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 25 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 4 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2024Flash FloodMeadow Grove$100,000Public report of county roads submerged in water. A storm damage survey the next day confirmed several locations where the roads were still under water or partially washed out. By around 7 PM CDT, widespread street flooding was reported in Norfolk. As the storms slowly moved southeast, additional flooding was reported by a county official across central portions of the county where numerous county roads were flooded in addition to considerable lowland flooding.
June 2025HailMeadow Grove-Trained spotter report of hail estimated up to 1 inch in diameter.
June 2024Tornado (EF1)Meadow Grove-This was a very slow-moving tornado that developed 7 miles south of Meadow Grove, destroying a metal shed and a cattle trailer. Maximum estimated wind speeds in this tornado were 100 miles per hour. The maximum width of this tornado was measured at 300 yards, with an average width estimated at 200 yards.
June 2024HailMeadow Grove-The office received a public report of tennis ball sized hail.
June 2024Tornado (EF0)Meadow Grove-A landspout tornado developed in a field, eventually merging with the mesocyclone and taking on some briefly supercellular features. The tornado was over mainly open fields but did break one tree, a powerline, and damaged a small shed. Peak estimated winds in this tornado were 70 miles per hour, with a width of 50 yards.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindMeadow Grove-Public reported via mPing that trees were uprooted or snapped; roof blown off.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindMeadow Grove-Public report from mPing for 3-inch tree limbs broken or power poles broken.
October 2022HailMeadow Grove-Public reported multiple vehicles damaged by 1.25-inch hail.
May 2022HailMeadow Grove-Public reported 60 mph wind gusts and hail up to 1.25 inches in diameter.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindMeadow Grove-Storm chaser reported power poles down on the highway.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindMeadow Grove-Public reported a large tree branch down via social media.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindMeadow Grove-Public reported shingles blown off of a roof.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindMeadow Grove-Public reported flattened corn and grain bin.
June 2021HailMeadow Grove-Public reported 1.25 inch hail.
June 2021HailMeadow Grove-Public reported 1 inch hail.
June 2021HailMeadow Grove-Public reported 1 inch hail.
June 2021HailMeadow Grove-Public reported 1.75 inch hail.
June 2021HailMeadow Grove-Storm chaser reported 1.25 inch hail.
June 2021HailMeadow Grove-Public reported 1.75 inch hail.
June 2021HailMeadow Grove-Public reported 1.25 inch hail.
May 2021HailMeadow Grove-Public reported 1 inch hail covering the ground.
May 2021HailMeadow Grove-Trained spotter reported 2 inch hail.
May 2021Tornado (EFU)Meadow Grove-Public sent in multiple pictures of a tornado that briefly touched down. No damage was reported.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindMeadow Grove-Public reported a flattened grain bin and flattened corn.
August 2020HailMeadow Grove-Trained spotter reported 1 inch hail.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindMeadow Grove-An estimated thunderstorm wind gust of 60 mph was reported north northwest of Meadow Grove.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindMeadow Grove-A spotter reported several large trees down.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindMeadow Grove-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 80 mph caused significant tree damage in the Battle Creek area which in turned caused building and vehicle damage. Nearly half the streets in town were impassable of because of fallen trees, and at least 10 houses and cars sustained significant damage due to the fallen trees. Power was also knocked out in the area. The damage path stretched both west and east of town.
June 2000Tornado (F0)Meadow Grove-This was probably the same tornado that was reported west of Pierce. It apparently tracked from west of Pierce into extreme northwest Madison county before lifting. No damage was reported.
June 2014HailMeadow Grove-no account filed
June 2009HailMeadow Grove-no account filed
April 2005HailMeadow Grove-no account filed
May 2005HailMeadow Grove-no account filed
June 2005HailMeadow Grove-no account filed
August 2005HailMeadow Grove-no account filed
September 2005HailMeadow Grove-no account filed
September 2004HailMeadow Grove-no account filed
May 2003HailMeadow Grove-no account filed
June 2002HailMeadow Grove-no account filed
June 2000HailMeadow Grove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
Tilden5.4 miles9
Battle Creek7.5 miles9
Emerick8.8 miles9
Fairview (historical)12.7 miles9
Kalamazoo14.6 miles9
Warnerville16.0 miles9
Enola16.8 miles9
Norfolk16.8 miles10

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 Meadow GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2695136The 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 831173. 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.