Tarnov, Nebraska

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Burrows Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68642. The Survey maps it on the Tarnov quadrangle. 52 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,650 feet above sea level.

Tarnov within Platte County

On record in Tarnov

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

St. Michael's Catholic Churchlisted 1990

Population over time

2 figures

Tarnov grew from 46 to 52 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	46
2020	52	+6 (+13%)

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.

1955 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Tarnov quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Stanton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Storms near this place

14 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tarnov in 14 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 7 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Tarnov	-	Emergency management report of a semi truck blow over east of Tarnov.
May 2024	Tornado (EF1)	Tarnov	-	This tornado developed about 3 miles east of Tarnov, knocking over center pivots and grain storage bins as it crossed agricultural fields. The tornado continued moving east across Platte County, damaging the outbuildings of a goat farm, and producing high-end EF-0 damage. The tornado moved east to damage the farmhouse, outbuildings and trees of another goat farm, producing EF-1 damage. The tornado then moved slightly north of east tracking into Colfax County. Peak winds during this segment of the tornado track were estimated to be 100 miles per hour. The maximum path width for this segment was measured to be 700 yards, with an average width estimated at 200 yards.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Tarnov	-	Public reported an estimated 60 mph wind gusts.
July 2023	Hail	Tarnov	-	Public reported via social media 2.5-inch hail.
July 2023	Hail	Tarnov	-	Public reported hail lasting approximately 20 to 25 minutes. First started as pea size and got progressively larger. The largest stones were baseball sized. It destroyed crops and gardens. There were numerous downed branches.
May 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Tarnov	-	A public personal weather station recorded a peak wind gust of 59 mph.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Tarnov	-	Power lines were blown down near Tarnov.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Tarnov	-	A microburst caused a camper being pulled by a pickup truck to be blown over on Highway 81. Other damage included tree limbs down in Tarnov, a grain bin was blown off the foundation, and several center irrigation center pivots were blown over.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Tarnov	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 70 mph damaged or destroyed farm outbuildings and overturned numerous center pivots near Tarnov. Trees were toppled in the area as well.
April 2017	Hail	Tarnov	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Tarnov	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Tarnov	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Tarnov	-	no account filed
March 1995	Hail	Tarnov	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Platte 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Humphrey	5.3 miles	9
Platte Center	5.5 miles	8
Cornlea	5.6 miles	9
Creston	9.7 miles	8
Saint Bernard	9.9 miles	9
Oconee	10.1 miles	14
Monroe	11.0 miles	14
Sheldonville	11.2 miles	13

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 Tarnov	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1882766	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 834038. 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.

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.