Lisco, Nebraska
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lisco precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69148. It stands on Coldwater Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lisco quadrangle. 68 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,484 feet above sea level.
On record in Lisco
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 1 record
Lisco State Aid Bridgelisted 1992
Population over time
2 figuresLisco grew from 64 to 68 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 | 64 | |
| 2020 | 68 | +4 (+6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 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.
- 1899 USGS Sidney quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Scottsbluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Scottsbluff quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1972 USGS Lisco quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Chappell quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Lisco between 2007 and 2012, burning about 384 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 80 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 22 July 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 2 July 2012 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 10 June 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 3 March 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 300 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this place
60 of 98 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lisco in 98 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 57 hail, 38 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1998 | Flash Flood | Lisco | $200,000 | Flash flooding along and south of the North Platte river from near Lisco to near Lewellen washed out several county roads with many county roads closed. |
| June 1998 | Hail | Lisco | $25,000 | Damage to vehicles and buildings in Lisco. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Lisco | $15,000 | Hail covered the ground up to 1 to 2 inches deep creating slippery roads. |
| August 2002 | Hail | Lisco | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Lisco | $6,000 | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Hail | Lisco | $5,000 | Marble to golfball size hail and 50 MPH winds chipped the paint from the siding of a house and cracked two windows. |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lisco | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew down several large branches. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Lisco | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lisco | $2,000 | Six inch diameter tree limbs were broken off. |
| July 2000 | Hail | Lisco | $2,000 | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 65 mph downed tree limbs. |
| September 2004 | Hail | Lisco | $2,000 | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lisco | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Flash Flood | Lisco | - | Garden county Sheriff's office reports flooding in several places along highway 26 between Lisco and Oshkosh. Location estimated with MRMS data. |
| September 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lisco | - | Coop observer estimated 70 MPH winds at this location. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lisco | - | Thunderstorm wind gust of 61 MPH reported at this location. |
| June 2021 | Hail | Lisco | - | Hail was nickel to quarter size at this location. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lisco | - | The RAWS station at Crescent Lake measured a 69 mph wind gust. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lisco | - | Multiple healthy trees uprooted across town. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lisco | - | Roof blown off shed. Vehicles inside the shed were damaged. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lisco | - | No details. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lisco | - | Roof blown off shed and the vehicles inside were damaged. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lisco | - | Crescent Lake NWR RAWS station measured 65 mph wind gusts. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lisco | - | Wind observation recorded from RAWS, gust happened between 158 AM and 258 AM CDT. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lisco | - | No information available. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lisco | - | No damage reported. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lisco | - | No damage reported. |
| August 2018 | Hail | Lisco | - | Extensive damage was reported at the property, including broken windows and siding. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lisco | - | Public estimated 60 mph wind gusts. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lisco | - | No significant damage reported from this wind gust. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lisco | - | No significant damage reported from this wind gust. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lisco | - | General public located 11 miles south southeast of Lisco reported thunderstorm wind gusts to 60 mph. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lisco | - | General public located 11 miles south southeast of Lisco reported thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lisco | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 MPH reported at this location. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lisco | - | Thunderstorm wind gust estimated at 60 MPH at this location. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lisco | - | General Public reported thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 mph. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lisco | - | A trained spotter reported thunderstorm wind gusts to 80 mph. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lisco | - | Thunderstorm wind gust of 65 MPH estimated by a trained spotter. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Lisco | - | Public reported golf ball sized hail. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lisco | - | Downed tree limbs resulted from strong thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lisco | - | Thunderstorms produced severe criteria wind gusts north of the Oshkosh area. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lisco | - | Thunderstorms produced severe criteria wind gusts in northern Garden county. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lisco | - | The winds broke off 8 inch diameter tree limbs. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Lisco | - | Hail covered the ground. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lisco | - | Strong thunderstorm winds broke off large tree limbs. The thunderstorm also produced torrential rain and flattened wheat crops. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lisco | - | Tree limbs to 10 inch diameter down. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lisco | - | no account filed |
| June 2023 | Hail | Lisco | - | no account filed |
| June 2023 | Hail | Lisco | - | no account filed |
| June 2023 | Hail | Lisco | - | no account filed |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lisco | - | no account filed |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lisco | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Lisco | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Lisco | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lisco | - | no account filed |
| August 2018 | Hail | Lisco | - | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Hail | Lisco | - | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Hail | Lisco | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Lisco | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Lisco | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Lisco | - | 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.
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 Lisco | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q966695 | 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 830753. 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.




