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Wellfleet, Nebraska

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Medicine precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69170. The Survey maps it on the Wellfleet quadrangle. 72 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,818 feet above sea level.

Wellfleet within Lincoln County

Population over time

2 figures

Wellfleet fell from 78 to 72 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
201078
202072-6 (-8%)

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

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Wellfleet between 2011 and 2012, burning about 6 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
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
7 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
25 July 2011Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

60 of 103 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wellfleet in 103 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 79 hail, 21 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
May 2012HailWellfleet$5,000,000Considerable damage done to a new convertible from the hail.
June 1997HailWellfleet$1,500,000Scattered thunderstorms with large hail and winds in excess of 60 mph destroyed crops and property in a path across Southwest Nebraska.
June 1996HailWellfleet$75,000no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindWellfleet$20,000Thunderstorm wind damages several roofs of houses.
May 2000HailWellfleet$20,000no account filed
August 2001HailWellfleet$10,000no account filed
May 2014Thunderstorm WindWellfleet$5,000An old barn roof was reported blown off.
June 2003HailWellfleet$5,000no account filed
May 2008HailWellfleet$3,000no account filed
June 2003HailWellfleet$3,000no account filed
May 1998HailWellfleet$3,000no account filed
August 1999Thunderstorm WindWellfleet$2,000Trees were blown down in a thunderstorm.
May 2005HailWellfleet$2,000no account filed
May 2004HailWellfleet$2,000no account filed
June 2003HailWellfleet$2,000no account filed
August 2014Thunderstorm WindWellfleet$1,000Metal poles were bent on a trampoline.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindWellfleet$1,000Strong winds moved large round hay bales with several large trees blown over and a center pivot system overturned. Thunderstorm winds estimated to 90 mph.
August 2000Flash FloodWellfleet$1,000Medicine creek out of its banks with water over a bridge.
May 2024Tornado (EF0)Wellfleet-Tree damage was minor. A dead tree was uprooted. The tornado placed the tree on the fence to the east.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindWellfleet-Public reported several tree limbs down at their location. Time estimated from Radar.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindWellfleet-A trained weather spotter estimates 60 mph winds north of Curtis.
May 2019HailWellfleet-Delayed report sent via social media.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindWellfleet-Estimated wind gust of 60 MPH by a trained spotter.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindWellfleet-Wind speeds up to 60 MPH reported at this location.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindWellfleet-Public estimated up to 60 mph winds in Wellfleet.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindWellfleet-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 MPH.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindWellfleet-Public measured a 60 mph wind gust.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindWellfleet-Wind gusts estimated at 80 mph.
July 2013HailWellfleet-Half dollar sized hail reported with 50 to 60 MPH winds.
April 2012Tornado (EF0)Wellfleet-The tornado was on the ground for 23 minutes and traveled northeast for 15 miles lifting intermittently while moving across open rangeland and cropland.
June 2011HailWellfleet-Mostly nickel sized hail along with very heavy rain at time of report.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindWellfleet-Tree limb damage occurred at this location.
July 2008HailWellfleet-Nickel size hail covered the ground.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindWellfleet-Thunderstorm outflow winds broke off numerous ten inch diameter tree limbs at a farmstead.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindWellfleet-Tree limbs up to 6 inches in diameter were down.
May 1993HailWellfleet-A thunderstorm moving north dropped dime to golf ball-size hail. The storm passed mainly through open country. The only damage reported was to a pickup truck four miles southeast of McCook.
May 2025HailWellfleet-no account filed
May 2025HailWellfleet-no account filed
July 2024HailWellfleet-no account filed
June 2022HailWellfleet-no account filed
June 2022HailWellfleet-no account filed
June 2022HailWellfleet-no account filed
May 2019HailWellfleet-no account filed
May 2019HailWellfleet-no account filed
May 2016HailWellfleet-no account filed
June 2015HailWellfleet-no account filed
June 2015HailWellfleet-no account filed
June 2015HailWellfleet-no account filed
August 2015HailWellfleet-no account filed
August 2015HailWellfleet-no account filed
July 2014HailWellfleet-no account filed
July 2014HailWellfleet-no account filed
July 2014HailWellfleet-no account filed
August 2014HailWellfleet-no account filed
August 2014HailWellfleet-no account filed
May 2014HailWellfleet-no account filed
June 2014HailWellfleet-no account filed
August 2013HailWellfleet-no account filed
August 2013HailWellfleet-no account filed
May 2013HailWellfleet-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
Somerset8.6 miles7
Dickens14.8 miles8
Bignell22.4 miles13
Wallace23.8 miles7
Keith24.9 miles13
Maxwell25.0 miles13
North Platte25.7 miles14
Sioux View Park25.8 miles14

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 WellfleetAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q655720The 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 834541. 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.