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.
Population over time
2 figuresWellfleet 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 78 | |
| 2020 | 72 | -6 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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.
- 1954 USGS McCook quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Wellfleet quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS McCook quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS McCook quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Gothenburg quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2 since 2011Regional 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 August 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 25 July 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this place
60 of 103 shownRegional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2012 | Hail | Wellfleet | $5,000,000 | Considerable damage done to a new convertible from the hail. |
| June 1997 | Hail | Wellfleet | $1,500,000 | Scattered thunderstorms with large hail and winds in excess of 60 mph destroyed crops and property in a path across Southwest Nebraska. |
| June 1996 | Hail | Wellfleet | $75,000 | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellfleet | $20,000 | Thunderstorm wind damages several roofs of houses. |
| May 2000 | Hail | Wellfleet | $20,000 | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Wellfleet | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellfleet | $5,000 | An old barn roof was reported blown off. |
| June 2003 | Hail | Wellfleet | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Wellfleet | $3,000 | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Wellfleet | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Wellfleet | $3,000 | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellfleet | $2,000 | Trees were blown down in a thunderstorm. |
| May 2005 | Hail | Wellfleet | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Wellfleet | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Wellfleet | $2,000 | no account filed |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellfleet | $1,000 | Metal poles were bent on a trampoline. |
| May 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellfleet | $1,000 | Strong 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 2000 | Flash Flood | Wellfleet | $1,000 | Medicine creek out of its banks with water over a bridge. |
| May 2024 | Tornado (EF0) | Wellfleet | - | Tree damage was minor. A dead tree was uprooted. The tornado placed the tree on the fence to the east. |
| May 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellfleet | - | Public reported several tree limbs down at their location. Time estimated from Radar. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellfleet | - | A trained weather spotter estimates 60 mph winds north of Curtis. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Wellfleet | - | Delayed report sent via social media. |
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellfleet | - | Estimated wind gust of 60 MPH by a trained spotter. |
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellfleet | - | Wind speeds up to 60 MPH reported at this location. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellfleet | - | Public estimated up to 60 mph winds in Wellfleet. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellfleet | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 MPH. |
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellfleet | - | Public measured a 60 mph wind gust. |
| May 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellfleet | - | Wind gusts estimated at 80 mph. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Wellfleet | - | Half dollar sized hail reported with 50 to 60 MPH winds. |
| April 2012 | Tornado (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 2011 | Hail | Wellfleet | - | Mostly nickel sized hail along with very heavy rain at time of report. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellfleet | - | Tree limb damage occurred at this location. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Wellfleet | - | Nickel size hail covered the ground. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellfleet | - | Thunderstorm outflow winds broke off numerous ten inch diameter tree limbs at a farmstead. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellfleet | - | Tree limbs up to 6 inches in diameter were down. |
| May 1993 | Hail | Wellfleet | - | 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 2025 | Hail | Wellfleet | - | no account filed |
| May 2025 | Hail | Wellfleet | - | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Hail | Wellfleet | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Wellfleet | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Wellfleet | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Wellfleet | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Wellfleet | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Wellfleet | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Wellfleet | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Wellfleet | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Wellfleet | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Wellfleet | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Wellfleet | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Wellfleet | - | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Hail | Wellfleet | - | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Hail | Wellfleet | - | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Hail | Wellfleet | - | no account filed |
| August 2014 | Hail | Wellfleet | - | no account filed |
| August 2014 | Hail | Wellfleet | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Wellfleet | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Wellfleet | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Hail | Wellfleet | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Hail | Wellfleet | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Wellfleet | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Somerset | 8.6 miles | 7 | |
| Dickens | 14.8 miles | 8 | |
| Bignell | 22.4 miles | 13 | |
| Wallace | 23.8 miles | 7 | |
| Keith | 24.9 miles | 13 | |
| Maxwell | 25.0 miles | 13 | |
| North Platte | 25.7 miles | 14 | |
| Sioux View Park | 25.8 miles | 14 |
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 Wellfleet | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q655720 | 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 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.




