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.
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
Nehawka Public Librarylisted 2002
Population over time
2 figuresNehawka 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 204 | |
| 2020 | 173 | -31 (-15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 13 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.
- 1935 USGS Nehawka quadrangle1:48000
- 1935 USGS Nehawka quadrangle1:62500
- 1940 USGS Nehawka quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Nehawka quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
17 since 2005Regional 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 burning | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 June 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 8 May 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 25 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 15 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 9 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 28 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 26 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 60 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 26 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 17 March 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nehawka Quarry & Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
10 since 1999Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2024 | Hail | Nehawka | - | Cass County Emergency Management relayed a report from a trained spotter of tennis ball sized hail at 67th and A street. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nehawka | - | Emergency manager reported a large hog shed blown off its foundation and onto a home. |
| December 2021 | Tornado (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 2016 | Flash Flood | Nehawka | - | Local law enforcement indicated that numerous streets in and around the city of Union had water over them. |
| May 2016 | Tornado (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 2004 | Tornado (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 2000 | Funnel Cloud | Nehawka | - | Reported by storm spotter. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Nehawka | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Nehawka | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Hail | Nehawka | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Union | 3.8 miles | 13 | |
| Todd | 4.8 miles | 15 | |
| Murray | 6.8 miles | 15 | |
| Avoca | 7.1 miles | 13 | |
| Lake Waconda | 7.4 miles | 15 | |
| Kanosha (historical) | 8.2 miles | 15 | |
| Weeping Water | 8.4 miles | 13 | |
| Beaver Lake | 8.8 miles | 15 |
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 Nehawka | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2619491 | 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 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.








