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Lewellen, Nebraska

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Blue Creek precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69147. It stands on Blue Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lewellen quadrangle. 175 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,317 feet above sea level.

Lewellen within Garden County

On record in Lewellen

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Lewellen fell from 224 to 175 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
2010224
2020175-49 (-22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

2 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Lewellen between 2003 and 2012, burning about 700 acres in total. 2 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
Natural2

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
7 August 2012Natural700 acresCrescent Lake National Wildlife RefugeRATTLESNAKE ASSIST
17 March 2003Naturalunder an acreCrescent Lake National Wildlife RefugeRACKETT

Every fire recorded in Garden County

Storms near this place

60 of 107 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lewellen in 107 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 70 hail, 29 thunderstorm wind, 6 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
July 2009HailLewellen$100,000The hail and wind gusts of 30 to 40 mph damaged roofs on homes, broke skylights in homes, and damaged vehicles.
June 2003Tornado (F2)Lewellen$100,000The tornado touched down near the North Platte River and destroyed an old barn and snapped off trees before moving north across Highway 26 and taking down power poles. After moving across the highway, it destroyed three outbuildings, three grain bins, a large machine shed, and a two car detached garage and broke off numerous large trees at a farmstead. It continued to move north-northeast and destroyed three wind mills and three center pivot irrigation systems and threw 1/2 ton hay bales one quarter mile into a corn field.
June 2003Tornado (F0)Lewellen$80,000A tornado touched down briefly just to the south of railroad tracks near State Highway 92. As the tornado touched down, it destroyed a grain bin at a local farmstead, broke off a power pole near the railroad tracks, and picked up hay bales that were near to the railroad tracks. The tornado and the debris hit the side of a westbound Union Pacific train and caused 22 empty coal cars to derail. Debris from the hay bales and grain bin were carried north-northeast across State Highway 92 and into an open pasture.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindLewellen$40,000Seven tower center pivot irrigation system overturned.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindLewellen$25,000Several large tree limbs down and hardwood trees trunks were snapped. Power lines were down in the vicinity as well.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindLewellen$15,000The strong thunderstorm outflow winds pushed a grain bin off its foundation. Crop damage also occurred but the extent is unknown.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindLewellen$10,000Thunderstorm winds snapped power poles at this location.
August 2007Flash FloodLewellen$10,000A nearly stationary thunderstorm produced heavy rain which washed out some roads. One area of road that was washed out was approximately 100 yards long, 10 feet deep and 15-20 feet wide in places.
July 2001HailLewellen$10,000no account filed
August 2007HailLewellen$7,000no account filed
July 2015Thunderstorm WindLewellen$5,000Strong winds and hail of an unknown size knocked out windows at a residence.
June 2014HailLewellen$5,000General public reported hail up to ping ball size covered the ground white and lasted for 20 minutes.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindLewellen$5,000General public reported thunderstorm wind gusts of 70 mph with up to quarter size hail covering yard.
August 2007HailLewellen$5,000Thunderstorm winds in excess of 60 mph accompanied the hail.
May 2003HailLewellen$5,000Strong winds combined with the hail and broke windows and produced minor roof damage.
June 2003Tornado (F0)Lewellen$5,000The tornado touched down in a corn field on the north side of Highway 26. An outbuilding from a farmstead to the south of the touchdown area was shifted off its foundation. Also, the front deck of a home to the northeast received minor damage.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindLewellen$4,000Co-op observer reported power poles blown over.
August 2002HailLewellen$3,000no account filed
August 1999HailLewellen$2,000no account filed
May 2013Thunderstorm WindLewellen$1,000A few cedar trees twisted with trunks broken and numerous limbs down.
April 2007HailLewellen$1,000no account filed
May 2004HailLewellen$1,000no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindLewellen-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 MPH at this location.
September 2024Thunderstorm WindLewellen-Winds associated with a heat burst.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindLewellen-A trained weather spotter estimated 60 mph winds near Lewellen.
May 2020HailLewellen-Ground covered by hail up to the size of quarters.
July 2020HailLewellen-A trained weather spotter reported golf ball size hail southeast of Lewellen.
August 2018HailLewellen-Damage to buildings was reported.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindLewellen-Estimated 60 mph wind gusts blew a tree down and an anchored trampoline a quarter mile away, and corn was sheared at the ground.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindLewellen-No significant damage reported from this wind gust.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindLewellen-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 75 mph with 6 to 8 inch tree branches snapped off healthy trees.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindLewellen-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph which broke off 3 to 4 inch diameter tree branches from healthy trees.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindLewellen-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 80 MPH.
August 2015HailLewellen-Wind gusts to 60 mph were also reported.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindLewellen-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 MPH.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindLewellen-Thunderstorm wind gusts to 60 MPH were reported.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindLewellen-General public reported thunderstorm wind gusts to 70 mph.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindLewellen-Wind gust around 70 mph was reported 12 miles north of Big Springs.
July 2013HailLewellen-Leaves stripped off of corn crops northeast of Lewellen.
July 2013HailLewellen-Hail stripped a couple of fields of corn west northwest of Lewellen.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindLewellen-The public reported very strong winds.
April 2005HailLewellen-Hail covered the ground.
June 2001Tornado (F0)Lewellen-F0 tornado briefly touched down in open rangeland.
August 1999Tornado (F0)Lewellen-Spotters reported two tornadoes touched down breifly in a rural area.
August 1999Tornado (F0)Lewellen-A spotter reported a tornado that touched down briefly in a rural area.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindLewellen-no account filed
May 2025Thunderstorm WindLewellen-no account filed
June 2023HailLewellen-no account filed
June 2020HailLewellen-no account filed
June 2020HailLewellen-no account filed
June 2020HailLewellen-no account filed
June 2020HailLewellen-no account filed
August 2019HailLewellen-no account filed
August 2019HailLewellen-no account filed
August 2019HailLewellen-no account filed
May 2018HailLewellen-no account filed
May 2018HailLewellen-no account filed
May 2018HailLewellen-no account filed
May 2018HailLewellen-no account filed
August 2018HailLewellen-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Garden 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
Oshkosh11.8 miles11
Rackett23.4 miles11
Lisco27.7 miles11
Mumper33.6 miles9

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 LewellenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1817973The 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 830687. 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.