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Nehawka, Nebraska

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Nehawka precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68413. It stands on North Branch Weeping Water Creek. The Survey maps it on the Nehawka quadrangle. 173 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 997 feet above sea level.

Nehawka within Cass County

On record in Nehawka

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

Nehawka fell from 204 to 173 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
2010204
2020173-31 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

17 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Nehawka between 2005 and 2018, burning about 104 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 burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
3 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
8 May 2006Equipment and vehicle use25 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
15 April 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
9 March 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
28 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
26 March 2014Debris and open burning60 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
26 March 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
17 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Nehawka: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Nehawka Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Cass County

Storms near this place

10 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nehawka in 10 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 4 hail, 3 tornado, 1 funnel cloud, 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
May 2024HailNehawka-Cass County Emergency Management relayed a report from a trained spotter of tennis ball sized hail at 67th and A street.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindNehawka-Emergency manager reported a large hog shed blown off its foundation and onto a home.
December 2021Tornado (EF2)Nehawka-Tornado removed roof from house. Roof over garage uplifted and displaced. House moved slightly on foundation. Several large pines & oak trees snapped. Additional damage to power poles was noted, along with total destruction of a farm outbuilding near Highway 75 and Baxter Loop.
May 2016Flash FloodNehawka-Local law enforcement indicated that numerous streets in and around the city of Union had water over them.
May 2016Tornado (EF2)Nehawka-This tornado started just to the southwest of the city of Nehawka and generally traveled to the northwest through its lifespan. The tornado was filmed by numerous storm chasers and general public. The tornado remain generally in rural areas, but did impact a couple of farmsteads. The most significant damage occurred along Havelock Ave where a home was destroyed. The damage at this residence was consistent with EF2 damage. Another farmstead was impacted south of Knabe Dr where several outbuildings were completely destroyed. Otherwise trees were uprooted or damaged along the path.
May 2004Tornado (F1)Nehawka-A tornado uprooted large trees and downed transmission towers from around Nehawka to near Union. Two houses sustained major damage and "heavy damage" was reported to 30 other houses. Some of the damage could have also been caused by straight line winds that occurred across parts of the area shortly before the reported time of the tornado. The strong winds also knocked power out across most of Union. The track of the tornado was around 4 miles long and was spawned from the same supercell complex that produced the long tracked f4 tornado earlier which caused extensive damage in the Hallam area.
June 2000Funnel CloudNehawka-Reported by storm spotter.
June 2014HailNehawka-no account filed
June 2011HailNehawka-no account filed
April 1999HailNehawka-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
Union3.8 miles13
Todd4.8 miles15
Murray6.8 miles15
Avoca7.1 miles13
Lake Waconda7.4 miles15
Kanosha (historical)8.2 miles15
Weeping Water8.4 miles13
Beaver Lake8.8 miles15

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 NehawkaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2619491The 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 831579. 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.