Lincoln, Nebraska

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Lincoln City. It lies in ZIP code area 68510. The Survey maps it on the Lincoln quadrangle. 291,082 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,175 feet above sea level.

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Lincoln within Lancaster County

On record in Lincoln

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 12 of 105 shown

FairviewNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966
Nebraska State CapitolNational Historic Landmark · listed 1970
Agricultural Halllisted 2010
Antelope Grocerylisted 1988
Barr Terracelisted 1979
Beatrice Creamery Company Lincoln Plantlisted 2012
James A. Beattie Houselisted 1990
Jasper Newton Bell Houselisted 1984
Guy A. Brown Houselisted 1998
Burckhardt Houselisted 1999
Edgar A. Burnett Houselisted 2006
Burr Blocklisted 1979

Every listing in Lancaster County

Population over time

2 figures

Lincoln grew from 258,379 to 291,082 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	258,379
2020	291,082	+32,703 (+13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 16 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.

1897 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1955 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Lincoln city. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From Lincoln, the Capital City and Lancaster County, Nebraska;, published 1916 - Lincoln City

Crimin.Al Cases

Lincoln and Lancaster County have been remarkably free from brutal murders or complicated crimes, and resultant criminal trials, but there have been a few cases of this type which have attracted a great amount of attention. Perhaps the most notable of the murder cases in thecounty was known as the Sheedy case.

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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 Lincoln between 2007 and 2018, burning about 8 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning	8
Recreation and ceremony	4
Fireworks	1
Smoking	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
12 August 2018	Smoking	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
4 July 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
9 May 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
28 April 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
2 April 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
8 March 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
3 March 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
22 March 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lancaster County

Storms near this place

60 of 170 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lincoln in 170 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 99 hail, 56 thunderstorm wind, 8 lightning, 5 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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
May 1996	Lightning	Lincoln	1 hurt	no account filed
August 2006	Lightning	Lincoln	$225,000	A lightning strike caused a fire and over $200,000 damage to a laundry facility near 20th and J Streets in Lincoln. The lightning struck the roof next to the east wall and smoldered for several hours before being noticed. Most of the damage was confined to the east side of the roof of the building.
August 2003	Lightning	Lincoln	$90,000	Lightning caused around 90,000 dollars in smoke, fire and electrical damage to 3 businesses southwest of Lincoln.
August 1996	Flash Flood	Lincoln	$60,000	no account filed
July 1997	Lightning	Lincoln	$25,000	Lightning struck a house causing the roof to catch on fire.
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Lincoln	$20,000	no account filed
September 1995	Hail	Lincoln	$20,000	no account filed
May 1996	Lightning	Lincoln	$12,000	no account filed
May 1996	Lightning	Lincoln	$9,000	no account filed
May 2004	Lightning	Lincoln	$6,000	A lightning strike caused fire in an attic and top floor of a house in Lincoln.
April 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Lincoln	$5,000	Roof blown off a building
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Lincoln	$5,000	Large tree branch fell on a home.
May 1996	Lightning	Lincoln	$400	no account filed
April 2026	Hail	Lincoln	-	Public report of hail estimated up to 1 inch in diameter near Lincoln, NE.
May 2025	Hail	Lincoln	-	Public report received via social media of hail estimated up to 1 in diameter.
September 2025	Hail	West Lincoln	-	Emergency manager report of hail estimated at nickel to quarter-sized in diameter.
April 2024	Hail	Lincoln	-	As a supercell moved northeast through Lancaster county, the office received multiple public reports on the northwest side of Lincoln of hail ranging from quarter to golf ball sized.
April 2024	Funnel Cloud	Lincoln	-	A trained spotter called into the office to report a funnel cloud over downtown Lincoln.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Lincoln	-	The office received a public report of large tree branches down in Lincoln.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Lincoln	-	A large tree was reported down on Normal Boulevard, just north of South Street.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Lincoln	-	The office received a report of a gas station awning blown down.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Lincoln	-	The office received a public report of numerous large trees split and limbs down.
July 2023	Hail	West Lincoln	-	Public reported 1-inch hail.
July 2023	Hail	West Lincoln	-	Public reported 1-inch hail.
June 2022	Hail	West Lincoln	-	Report received for 1.25 inch hail.
December 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Lincoln	-	Personal weather station measured a peak wind gust of 67 mph.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Lincoln	-	Report from mping reported 3 inch tree limbs broken.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	West Lincoln	-	ASOS station at Lincoln Airport reported 69 mph wind.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Lincoln	-	Emergency manager reported that there were nearly 100 calls to Lincoln Forestry for tree damage.
October 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Lincoln	-	Public sent pictures via social media of 8-12 inch diameter branches down near 70th St and Lincolnshire Rd in Lincoln.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	West Lincoln	-	ASOS at Lincoln Airport measured wind at 67 mph.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	West Lincoln	-	Emergency management reported significant number of power outages in Lincoln due to downed power lines.
April 2020	Hail	Lincoln	-	Public, via an image, reported 2 inch hailsouth of Yankee Hill Road on 70th Street in Lincoln.
May 2019	Flash Flood	West Lincoln	-	Several intersections are flooded. At least one with water up to the headlights of vehicles.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Lincoln	-	Large tree branches broken by damaging winds near 35th and Vine Streets in Lincoln.
September 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	West Lincoln	-	A power outage was reported at 31St and Merrill.
September 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Lincoln	-	Numerous trees and power lines were reported down across the city.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	West Lincoln	-	Large tree limbs down east of downtown Lincoln.
May 2017	Hail	West Lincoln	-	Quarter size hail reported at 40th and Old Cheney Road.
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Lincoln	-	A possible microburst occurred in central part of Lincoln. There were numerous large trees and power lines downed by the wind event. About 15,000 customers lost power from the storm.
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	West Lincoln	-	A 59 MPH wind gust was reported at Lincoln Airport.
June 2017	Hail	West Lincoln	-	Also 60 mph wind was reported at the same location.
June 2017	Hail	West Lincoln	-	One inch hail at AT 48th St. AND Highway 2. Sixty mph winds were also reported at the same location.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	West Lincoln	-	There were numerous reports of trees and power lines blown down in Lincoln.
April 2016	Hail	West Lincoln	-	Several reports of large hail and gusty winds were received from Lincoln. The hail size ranged from nickel size to ping pong ball.
May 2015	Hail	West Lincoln	-	Hail was falling near Memorial Stadium.
September 2015	Hail	Lincoln	-	The public reported the hail at 56th and O Streets in Lincoln.
September 2015	Hail	Lincoln	-	Numerous reports of large hail, some as big a tennis balls were received, mainly from social media, but also from spotters within the city of Lincoln. The largest hail fell on the southeast side of the city.
May 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	West Lincoln	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at around 60 mph downed some trees or caused tree damage in the Lincoln area knocking the power out for some LES customers.
May 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	West Lincoln	-	A spotter measured a thunderstorm wind gust at 75 mph about 1.5 miles east of the Lincoln airport. The strong winds downed trees in the area.
May 2014	Hail	West Lincoln	-	Reported about 1.5 miles east of the airport.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	West Lincoln	-	A trained spotter estimated winds of 60 to 65 mph.
October 2013	Hail	Lincoln	-	Hail up to half dollar-size fell over parts of Lincoln. In some cases the hail covered the ground.
May 2013	Hail	Lincoln	-	Hail up to 1.5 inches in diameter fell across parts of Lincoln from the first supercell thunderstorm that tracked across the city this evening. Among areas that received the large hail from this first storm included the North Bottoms neighborhood near 9th and Charleston, near Coddington and South Streets and at least one location in southwest Lincoln.
May 2012	Hail	West Lincoln	-	Reported at the Lincoln Airpark.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	West Lincoln	-	A thunderstorm gust of 60 mph was recorded at the Lincoln airport. The strong winds downed some tree limbs which in turned brought down a few power lines in the Lincoln area. More than 450 LES customers lost power.
April 2012	Flash Flood	West Lincoln	-	Rainfall of 2 to 3 inches caused flash flooding across several streets in Lincoln and also along Antelope Creek. Damage was apparently minimal.
September 2012	Hail	West Lincoln	-	Hail up to 1.50 inches was reported at 70th and A Street in Lincoln.
August 2011	Hail	West Lincoln	-	Near 58th and R Streets.
April 2011	Hail	West Lincoln	-	Hail up to quarter-size almost covered the ground completely across mainly northern Lincoln. This report was near 27th and Superior Streets.

Every storm recorded in Lancaster 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
College View	2.1 miles	16
Bethany	2.9 miles	16
University Place	2.9 miles	16
Belmont	3.7 miles	16
Countryside Estates	3.8 miles	16
Gaslight Village	3.8 miles	16
Woodlawn Estates	3.8 miles	16
Havelock	3.9 miles	16

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 Lincoln	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28260	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 837279. 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.