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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.

Letan within Box Butte County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

19 since 1999

Regional 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 use6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Natural1

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
6 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2008Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
3 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest ServiceWAYNE ROAD
3 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use85 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
25 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
1 August 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
5 July 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
31 July 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Box Butte County

Storms near this place

14 since 2009

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2017Tornado (EF0)Letan$1,000,000A 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 2025HailLetan-Report from mPING of quarter size hail.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindLetan-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 2021HailLetan-Spotter reported golf ball sized hail 3 miles southwest of Kilpatrick Lake.
August 2021HailLetan-Tennis ball sized hail reported by spotter 6 miles south southwest of Kilpatrick Lake.
August 2021HailLetan-Tennis ball sized hail reported by spotter 14 miles northwest of Angora.
July 2015HailLetan-Several homes sustained broken windows from golf ball size hail.
May 2014Funnel CloudLetan-Three funnel clouds were observed a few miles south of Kilpatrick Lake.
May 2014Tornado (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 2009Thunderstorm WindLetan-Strong winds caused considerable blowing dust.
June 2021HailLetan-no account filed
July 2021HailLetan-no account filed
July 2019HailLetan-no account filed
June 2009HailLetan-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Box Butte 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
Alliance7.0 miles11
Berea13.9 miles9
Hemingford22.3 miles9
Nonpareil27.8 miles10

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 LetanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18154435The 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.