Letan, Nebraska
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Eleven precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69301. The Survey maps it on the Alliance West quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1947 USGS Alliance West quadrangle1:24000
- 1947 USGS Bronco Lake quadrangle1:24000
- 1949 USGS Bronco Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Alliance quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Alliance quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Alliance quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Alliance quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
19 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Letan between 1999 and 2020, burning about 11,825 acres 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 6 August 2008 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 3 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | WAYNE ROAD |
| 3 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 85 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 25 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 1 August 2009 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 5 July 2008 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 31 July 2014 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this place
14 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Letan in 14 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 9 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2017 | Tornado (EF0) | Letan | $1,000,000 | A discontinuous tornado path continued northeast into Box Butte County from Morrill County. Additional roof damage was surveyed to a large building near the Alliance Airport (DI 1, DOD 3). This was the end of the discontinuous tornado path in Morrill and Box Butte Counties. Sixty-five train cars were blown over south of Alliance. |
| July 2025 | Hail | Letan | - | Report from mPING of quarter size hail. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Letan | - | Observer noted golf ball size hail along with several tree limbs broken off into the street. In addition, construction fencing was observed wrapped around nearby vehicles with other materials blown from initial site. |
| August 2021 | Hail | Letan | - | Spotter reported golf ball sized hail 3 miles southwest of Kilpatrick Lake. |
| August 2021 | Hail | Letan | - | Tennis ball sized hail reported by spotter 6 miles south southwest of Kilpatrick Lake. |
| August 2021 | Hail | Letan | - | Tennis ball sized hail reported by spotter 14 miles northwest of Angora. |
| July 2015 | Hail | Letan | - | Several homes sustained broken windows from golf ball size hail. |
| May 2014 | Funnel Cloud | Letan | - | Three funnel clouds were observed a few miles south of Kilpatrick Lake. |
| May 2014 | Tornado (EF0) | Letan | - | A weak landspout tornado touched down in open country east of Kilpatrick Lake and was on the ground for five minutes. No damage was reported. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Letan | - | Strong winds caused considerable blowing dust. |
| June 2021 | Hail | Letan | - | no account filed |
| July 2021 | Hail | Letan | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | Letan | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Letan | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alliance | 7.0 miles | 11 | |
| Berea | 13.9 miles | 9 | |
| Hemingford | 22.3 miles | 9 | |
| Nonpareil | 27.8 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 Letan | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q18154435 | 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 835361. 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.






