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Denton, Nebraska

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Denton precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68339. It stands on Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Denton quadrangle. 189 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,247 feet above sea level.

Denton within Lancaster County

On record in Denton

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

Population over time

2 figures

Denton fell from 190 to 189 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
2010190
2020189-1 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

32 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Denton between 2007 and 2020, burning about 484 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 burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Fireworks1

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
8 August 2009Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
29 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
16 July 2007Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
8 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 May 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
4 May 2011Railroad operations and maintenance95 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
4 May 2011Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
4 May 2011Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lancaster County

Storms near this place

19 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Denton in 19 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 10 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 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
July 2024Thunderstorm WindDenton$1,500,000Widespread severe wind gusts and straight line wind damage was observed across the entirety of Lancaster County with a line of severe thunderstorms that moved through the afternoon of July 31st. The highest measured wind gust was 92 miles per hour, recorded 1 mile southwest of Denton, Nebraska by a mesonet station. An 83 miles per hour wind gust was also measured by the Lincoln ASOS, and an 88 miles per hour wind gust was recorded by another mesonet station 4 miles northwest of Martell. Significant tree damage was reported across the county, with numerous trees blown down across the Lincoln metro. There were also several reports of structural damage, including a hotel which received roof damage near the Lincoln airport. Damages from these storms are estimated to be approximately 1.5 million dollars.
June 2010Flash FloodDenton$5,000A second round of heavy rain producing thunderstorms produced additional flash flooding across parts of Lincoln, especially the north part of town near Interstate 80, near 56th and Arbor Road and 63rd and Fletcher.
April 2024HailDenton-The office received reports from the public and amateur radio of quarter-sized hail in the Denton, Nebraska area. Hail fell for approximately ten minutes.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindDenton-A personal weather station measured a peak wind gust of 65 mph.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindDenton-Emergency manager reported damage to utility poles near SW 72nd and Bennett.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindDenton-Mesonet measured a wind gust of 54 knots.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindDenton-Home weather equipment measured a thunderstorm wind gust of 71 mph. The time was estimated based on radar data.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindDenton-Thunderstorm wind gusts, which were measured at 59 mph by the Asos at the Lincoln airport, occurred from southwest of Lincoln across the northwest side of town.
June 2009HailDenton-Quarter-size hail was reported near Denton.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindDenton-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at nearly 70 mph knocked down several large trees and caused other tree damage in and near Denton. Fallen trees caused damage to shingles and siding of several homes, and also downed power lines knocking out power to much of the town, which wasn't restored until early afternoon later that day. A few roads were also closed due to downed trees.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindDenton-Thunderstorm winds estimated at around 60 mph blew down an old grain elevator no longer in use in Denton.
May 2013HailDenton-no account filed
June 2010HailDenton-no account filed
May 2007HailDenton-no account filed
April 2005HailDenton-no account filed
June 2004HailDenton-no account filed
June 2004HailDenton-no account filed
May 2001HailDenton-no account filed
July 1995HailDenton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lancaster 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
Emerald5.3 miles16
Cushman6.0 miles16
Rokeby6.0 miles15
Yankee Hill6.3 miles16
Centerville7.9 miles15
Martell8.3 miles15
Jamaica8.6 miles15
Huskerville8.8 miles16

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 DentonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3023395The 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 828683. 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.