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.
Population over time
2 figuresLewiston 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 68 | |
| 2020 | 55 | -13 (-19%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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.
- 1955 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Lewiston quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Beatrice quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
14 since 2007Regional 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 burning | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 May 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 20 April 2010 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 16 April 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 14 April 2008 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 10 April 2009 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 28 March 2008 | Debris and open burning | 300 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 25 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 20 March 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
14 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lewiston | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew a shed onto a gas tank. Live electrical wires then ignited the fumes and caused a fire. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lewiston | - | A 58 miles per hour wind gust was reported by a trained spotter. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lewiston | - | A public report was received of a 59 miles per hour wind gust measured on a Davis weather instrument. |
| September 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lewiston | - | A trained spotter measured a 63 miles per hour wind gust on a personal weather station. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Lewiston | - | Trained spotter reported 1-inch hail. |
| October 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lewiston | - | Trained spotter reported a measured peak wind gust of 68 mph. |
| April 2022 | Funnel Cloud | Lewiston | - | A trained spotter reported a funnel cloud. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lewiston | - | Trained spotter measured a peak wind gust of 81 mph. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Lewiston | - | Trained spotter reported dime to quarter sized hail. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Lewiston | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Lewiston | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Lewiston | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Lewiston | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Lewiston | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tate (historical) | 3.6 miles | 10 | |
| Mayberry | 5.1 miles | 10 | |
| Burchard | 7.2 miles | 10 | |
| Armour (historical) | 8.6 miles | 11 | |
| Steinauer | 9.3 miles | 10 | |
| Violet (historical) | 11.0 miles | 10 | |
| Bookwalter | 12.7 miles | 10 | |
| Mission (historical) | 14.7 miles | 11 |
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 Lewiston | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2320466 | 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 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.




