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Lawrence, Nebraska

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Victor precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68957. The Survey maps it on the Lawrence quadrangle. 272 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,877 feet above sea level.

Lawrence within Nuckolls County

On record in Lawrence

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

Lawrence fell from 304 to 272 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
2010304
2020272-32 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

42 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Lawrence between 2005 and 2020, burning about 266 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 burning19
Equipment and vehicle use11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
28 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use15 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use20 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
11 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
9 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
24 July 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
30 June 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
27 June 2005Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nuckolls County

Storms near this place

42 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lawrence in 42 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 19 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 8 heavy rain, 1 lightning. 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
June 2001Thunderstorm WindLawrence$1,400,000no account filed
August 2020HailLawrence$100,000no account filed
June 2017HailLawrence$75,000no account filed
August 2023HailLawrence$50,000no account filed
August 2023HailLawrence$50,000no account filed
August 2021HailLawrence$50,000no account filed
May 2002Thunderstorm WindLawrence$50,000no account filed
May 2002Thunderstorm WindLawrence$50,000no account filed
June 1997LightningLawrence$35,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindLawrence$30,000no account filed
May 2024Tornado (EF0)Lawrence$25,000This tornado danced its way along an approximately six mile path in rural eastern Webster County and ended in far western Nuckolls County. It started just west of Highway 78 between 5-6 miles north of Guide Rock. The worst damage along its path occurred at a nearby farmstead, where there was widespread tree damage and minor damage to the home. The tornado crossed the highway and sporadically damaged some trees for the next couple of miles. The tornado eventually grazed another farmstead and damaged a couple areas of cedar trees. A local resident noted fence damage and debris in a fence north of the farmstead. The tornado likely ended at or near a farmstead in far western Nuckolls County where some tree damage and outbuilding damage occurred. The estimated peak wind was 85 MPH.
August 2023HailLawrence$25,000no account filed
May 2011FloodLawrence$15,000Storm total rainfall accumulations of 2 to 5 inches were reported across the area. Water covered a few county roads, especially in the Lawrence area. Lowland flooding was also reported.
June 2007HailLawrence$10,000no account filed
July 2006HailLawrence$10,000no account filed
June 2019Flash FloodLawrence$5,000Flash flooding occurred four miles west of Nelson where a culvert had washed out, and also US Highway 136 was under water five miles east-northeast of Guide Rock.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindLawrence$1,000Wind gusts estimated to be near 60 MPH knocked down some tree limbs of at least a few inches in diameter.
July 2022Heavy RainLawrence-Heavy rain fell across mainly northwestern and far east-central portions of Nuckolls County, with the majority occurring between 10 PM and 2 AM. The highest measured amount was 3.59 inches, by a CoCoRaHS observer located in Lawrence. Amounts of 3-4 inches were reported elsewhere in the Lawrence area, as well as near Ruskin.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindLawrence-A wind gust of 68 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located two miles east of Lawrence.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindLawrence-Wind gusts estimated to be near 60 MPH were accompanied by pea size hail.
July 2017Heavy RainLawrence-A storm total rainfall amount of 3.35 inches was measured.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindLawrence-A large tree limb was downed in town.
June 2015Heavy RainLawrence-A 24-hour rainfall total of 3.86...most of which fell during the evening of the 4th into the early morning of the 5th. Also in Nuckolls County, 3.88 was reported 3 miles northwest of Oak. Two-day rainfall totals of 3-7 were common within much of Adams, Clay, Fillmore, Nuckolls, Thayer, southern Hall, southern Hamilton and southern York counties, resulting in significant flooding across parts of the area.
October 2013Heavy RainLawrence-A rainfall total of 4.29 inches occurred.
June 2012Heavy RainLawrence-Rain total of 4.66 inches for the past 24 hours. Report comes from the Nebraska Rainfall Assessment and Information Network. The rain began during the late afternoon on June 14th, with the last round of rain ending during the early morning hours of June 15th.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindLawrence-A 70 mph wind gust was reported by the Lawrence Fire Department.
June 2012Heavy RainLawrence-Rain total of 3.16 inches for the past 24 hours. Report comes from the Nebraska Rainfall Assessment and Information Network. The rain began during the late afternoon on June 14th, with the last round of rain ending during the early morning hours of June 15th.
June 2012Heavy RainLawrence-Rain total of 4.40 inches for the past 24 hours. Report comes from the Nebraska Rainfall Assessment and Information Network. The rain began during the late afternoon on June 14th, with the last round of rain ending during the early morning hours of June 15th.
May 2011Heavy RainLawrence-Storm total rainfall of 3.91 inches was reported by a NeRAIN observer.
April 2023HailLawrence-no account filed
August 2023HailLawrence-no account filed
May 2021HailLawrence-no account filed
June 2019HailLawrence-no account filed
April 2019HailLawrence-no account filed
September 2015HailLawrence-no account filed
May 2008HailLawrence-no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindLawrence-no account filed
August 2007HailLawrence-no account filed
May 2006HailLawrence-no account filed
June 2001HailLawrence-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindLawrence-no account filed
May 1993HailLawrence-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nuckolls 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
Saint Stephens2.7 miles11
Mount Clare7.9 miles11
Nelson11.9 miles11
Abdal (historical)13.8 miles12
Angus14.9 miles12
Smyrna15.7 miles12
Bostwick17.3 miles11
Nora17.8 miles12

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 LawrenceAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2124666The 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 830643. 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.