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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.

Lisco within Garden County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Lisco 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.

YearPeople Change
201064
202068+4 (+6%)

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

5 since 2007

Regional 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
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
9 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use80 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
22 July 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
2 July 2012Natural2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
10 June 2007Naturalunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
3 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined300 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Garden County

Storms near this place

60 of 98 shown

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1998Flash FloodLisco$200,000Flash 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 1998HailLisco$25,000Damage to vehicles and buildings in Lisco.
June 2009HailLisco$15,000Hail covered the ground up to 1 to 2 inches deep creating slippery roads.
August 2002HailLisco$10,000no account filed
July 2001HailLisco$6,000no account filed
August 2008HailLisco$5,000Marble to golfball size hail and 50 MPH winds chipped the paint from the siding of a house and cracked two windows.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindLisco$5,000Thunderstorm winds blew down several large branches.
June 2014HailLisco$5,000no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindLisco$2,000Six inch diameter tree limbs were broken off.
July 2000HailLisco$2,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 65 mph downed tree limbs.
September 2004HailLisco$2,000no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindLisco$1,000no account filed
June 2024Flash FloodLisco-Garden county Sheriff's office reports flooding in several places along highway 26 between Lisco and Oshkosh. Location estimated with MRMS data.
September 2024Thunderstorm WindLisco-Coop observer estimated 70 MPH winds at this location.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindLisco-Thunderstorm wind gust of 61 MPH reported at this location.
June 2021HailLisco-Hail was nickel to quarter size at this location.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindLisco-The RAWS station at Crescent Lake measured a 69 mph wind gust.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindLisco-Multiple healthy trees uprooted across town.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindLisco-Roof blown off shed. Vehicles inside the shed were damaged.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindLisco-No details.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindLisco-Roof blown off shed and the vehicles inside were damaged.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindLisco-Crescent Lake NWR RAWS station measured 65 mph wind gusts.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindLisco-Wind observation recorded from RAWS, gust happened between 158 AM and 258 AM CDT.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindLisco-No information available.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindLisco-No damage reported.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindLisco-No damage reported.
August 2018HailLisco-Extensive damage was reported at the property, including broken windows and siding.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindLisco-Public estimated 60 mph wind gusts.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindLisco-No significant damage reported from this wind gust.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindLisco-No significant damage reported from this wind gust.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindLisco-General public located 11 miles south southeast of Lisco reported thunderstorm wind gusts to 60 mph.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindLisco-General public located 11 miles south southeast of Lisco reported thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindLisco-Thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 MPH reported at this location.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindLisco-Thunderstorm wind gust estimated at 60 MPH at this location.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindLisco-General Public reported thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 mph.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindLisco-A trained spotter reported thunderstorm wind gusts to 80 mph.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindLisco-Thunderstorm wind gust of 65 MPH estimated by a trained spotter.
June 2011HailLisco-Public reported golf ball sized hail.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindLisco-Downed tree limbs resulted from strong thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindLisco-Thunderstorms produced severe criteria wind gusts north of the Oshkosh area.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindLisco-Thunderstorms produced severe criteria wind gusts in northern Garden county.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindLisco-The winds broke off 8 inch diameter tree limbs.
June 2009HailLisco-Hail covered the ground.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindLisco-Strong thunderstorm winds broke off large tree limbs. The thunderstorm also produced torrential rain and flattened wheat crops.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindLisco-Tree limbs to 10 inch diameter down.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindLisco-no account filed
June 2023HailLisco-no account filed
June 2023HailLisco-no account filed
June 2023HailLisco-no account filed
August 2023Thunderstorm WindLisco-no account filed
August 2023Thunderstorm WindLisco-no account filed
June 2022HailLisco-no account filed
August 2019HailLisco-no account filed
May 2018Thunderstorm WindLisco-no account filed
August 2018HailLisco-no account filed
June 2016HailLisco-no account filed
June 2016HailLisco-no account filed
April 2015HailLisco-no account filed
May 2015HailLisco-no account filed
May 2015HailLisco-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
Oshkosh15.9 miles11
Mumper20.6 miles9
Rackett24.9 miles11
Lewellen27.7 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 LiscoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q966695The 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.