Burton, Nebraska
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Mills precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68778. The Survey maps it on the Burton quadrangle. 11 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,142 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBurton grew from 10 to 11 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 | 10 | |
| 2020 | 11 | +1 (+10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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.
- 1955 USGS O'Neill quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS O'Neill quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Burton quadrangle1:24000
- 1969 USGS O'Neill quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Ainsworth quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS O'Neill quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
1 since 2020Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Burton in 2020, burning about 1 acre in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 August 2020 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this place
22 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burton in 22 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 17 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burton | $500 | Thunderstorm wind gusts blew down several tree limbs up to 10 inches in diameter. |
| June 2021 | Hail | Burton | - | Hail up to the size of baseballs reported at this location. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burton | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 70 MPH. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burton | - | Emergency manager reports thunderstorm winds of 60 to 70 MPH. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Burton | - | Hail lasted a half an hour at this location, with the largest hailstones being the size of half dollars. |
| July 2010 | Hail | Burton | - | Hail was deep enough to cover the ground. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burton | - | The strong winds broke numerous tree branches. |
| July 2025 | Hail | Burton | - | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | Burton | - | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Hail | Burton | - | no account filed |
| August 2020 | Hail | Burton | - | no account filed |
| September 2017 | Hail | Burton | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Burton | - | no account filed |
| July 2013 | Funnel Cloud | Burton | - | no account filed |
| July 2013 | Hail | Burton | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Hail | Burton | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Hail | Burton | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Burton | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Burton | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Burton | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Burton | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Burton | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mills | 8.1 miles | 9 | |
| Springview | 10.3 miles | 9 | |
| Riverview | 12.6 miles | 11 | |
| Carns (historical) | 13.5 miles | 11 | |
| Brocksburg | 13.8 miles | 9 | |
| Jamison | 16.2 miles | 9 | |
| Meadville | 17.2 miles | 10 | |
| Norden | 25.7 miles | 10 |
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 Burton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3289039 | 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 827803. 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.





