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Lewiston, Nebraska

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Precinct 4, Steinauer. It lies in ZIP code area 68380. The Survey maps it on the Lewiston quadrangle. 55 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,463 feet above sea level.

Lewiston within Pawnee County

Population over time

2 figures

Lewiston fell from 68 to 55 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
201068
202055-13 (-19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

14 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Lewiston between 2007 and 2010, burning about 580 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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 burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 May 2009Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
20 April 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
16 April 2009Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
14 April 2008Debris and open burning8.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
10 April 2009Debris and open burning15 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
28 March 2008Debris and open burning300 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
25 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
20 March 2008Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pawnee County

Storms near this place

14 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lewiston in 14 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 7 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 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
October 1993Thunderstorm WindLewiston$5,000Thunderstorm winds blew a shed onto a gas tank. Live electrical wires then ignited the fumes and caused a fire.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindLewiston-A 58 miles per hour wind gust was reported by a trained spotter.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindLewiston-A public report was received of a 59 miles per hour wind gust measured on a Davis weather instrument.
September 2024Thunderstorm WindLewiston-A trained spotter measured a 63 miles per hour wind gust on a personal weather station.
April 2023HailLewiston-Trained spotter reported 1-inch hail.
October 2022Thunderstorm WindLewiston-Trained spotter reported a measured peak wind gust of 68 mph.
April 2022Funnel CloudLewiston-A trained spotter reported a funnel cloud.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindLewiston-Trained spotter measured a peak wind gust of 81 mph.
April 2022HailLewiston-Trained spotter reported dime to quarter sized hail.
April 2006HailLewiston-no account filed
May 2006HailLewiston-no account filed
May 2005HailLewiston-no account filed
August 2005HailLewiston-no account filed
August 2004HailLewiston-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pawnee 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
Tate (historical)3.6 miles10
Mayberry5.1 miles10
Burchard7.2 miles10
Armour (historical)8.6 miles11
Steinauer9.3 miles10
Violet (historical)11.0 miles10
Bookwalter12.7 miles10
Mission (historical)14.7 miles11

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 LewistonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2320466The 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 837266. 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.