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Lodgepole, Nebraska

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lodgepole precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69149. It stands on Cow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lodgepole quadrangle. 312 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,845 feet above sea level.

Lodgepole within Cheyenne County

On record in Lodgepole

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

Lodgepole fell from 318 to 312 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
2010318
2020312-6 (-2%)

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

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Lodgepole between 2001 and 2007, burning about 3 acres in total. 1 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
Natural1
Debris and open burning1

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
11 June 2007Natural3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
9 April 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Cheyenne County

Storms near this place

55 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lodgepole in 55 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 41 hail, 7 flash flood, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
September 1994HailLodgepole$100,000Large hail damaged automobiles, roofs, and trees.
July 2010Flash FloodLodgepole$50,000Lodgepole Creek overflowed its banks roughly 3.3 miles west of town and flowed east between U.S. Highway 385 and the railroad tracks. The railroad and highway narrowed near the COOP in Lodgepole causing waters to build up pressure and then reode the railroad bed causing flooding in the south part of town by 11 pm. During the worst of the flooding water was five feet deep in places. Other areas in town saw two to three feet of water cover an area three blocks wide and five blocks long.
May 2007Tornado (EF1)Lodgepole$10,000Short-lived tornado partially damaged a steel building.
June 1994HailLodgepole$5,000no account filed
July 2025HailLodgepole-Trained spotter reports quarter size hailstones.
May 2023HailLodgepole-A trained spotter located 8 miles north of Lodgepole reported marble sized hail with a few stones up to quarter sized. Hail remained on the ground the following morning.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindLodgepole-UPR site SUNOL1 reported this peak wind gust.
July 2023Flash FloodLodgepole-Emergency manager reported flash flooding in Lodgepole. Second report from spotter in Sunol of flash flooding as well.
July 2023HailLodgepole-Spotter reported stripped corn due to the hail.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindLodgepole-An irrigation pivot was lifted and tossed by the thunderstorm winds into a nearby power pole.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindLodgepole-A Snapchat video from a passing vehicle showed a tractor trailer that had been knocked over along Interstate 80.
July 2019HailLodgepole-Hail and thunderstorm wind tore gutters off of observer's resident in additional to tree damage.
July 2019Flash FloodLodgepole-Nebraska Department of Roads webcam for the Interstate 80 exit at Lodgepole showed water running under the overpass with hail drifts on the roadway.
July 2019Flash FloodLodgepole-Observer reported that the roadway on Road 145 North at the intersection of Highway 38 was washed out with a 20 foot partition of the road flooded away.
September 2017HailLodgepole-Quarter size hail covered the ground north of Lodgepole.
August 2017HailLodgepole-Quarter size hail was observed at Lodgepole.
July 2017HailLodgepole-Quarter size hail was observed a mile east of Lodgepole.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindLodgepole-Estimated 60 mph wind gusts were reported eight miles north of Lodgepole.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindLodgepole-Estimated wind gusts of 75 mph were observed eight miles north of Lodgepole.
May 2013HailLodgepole-Quarter size hail was reported at Lodgepole.
May 2013HailLodgepole-Quarter size hail was reported.
May 2013HailLodgepole-Walnut to silver dollar size hail was reported.
June 2010HailLodgepole-Hail started out at dime size, then became bigger.
June 2005HailLodgepole-Nickel to quarter size hail.
June 2005Flash FloodLodgepole-Flooding closed a county road linking Lodgepole to Interstate 80.
June 2005Flash FloodLodgepole-4-5 inches of rainfall resulted in the closure of many county roads and washed out one bridge. Rush Creek overflowed its banks.
June 1999HailLodgepole-1 3/4 inch hail reported 4 miles northwest of Lodgepole, NE
May 1999HailLodgepole-3/4 inch hail accumulated to a depth of 3 inches and stripped trees along a 1/2 mile path.
June 1999HailLodgepole-Golfball size hail reported 2 miles north of Lodgepole, NE
March 1998HailLodgepole-Golf ball size hail fell 8 miles north of Lodgepole.
May 2021HailLodgepole-no account filed
May 2021HailLodgepole-no account filed
May 2021HailLodgepole-no account filed
May 2021HailLodgepole-no account filed
July 2019HailLodgepole-no account filed
June 2018HailLodgepole-no account filed
June 2011HailLodgepole-no account filed
July 2010HailLodgepole-no account filed
June 2010HailLodgepole-no account filed
June 2010HailLodgepole-no account filed
June 2010HailLodgepole-no account filed
July 2009HailLodgepole-no account filed
June 2007HailLodgepole-no account filed
July 2007Flash FloodLodgepole-no account filed
May 2007HailLodgepole-no account filed
May 2004HailLodgepole-no account filed
June 2004HailLodgepole-no account filed
July 2004HailLodgepole-no account filed
July 2004HailLodgepole-no account filed
April 2000Thunderstorm WindLodgepole-no account filed
May 2000HailLodgepole-no account filed
May 2000HailLodgepole-no account filed
July 2000HailLodgepole-no account filed
June 1999HailLodgepole-no account filed
August 1998HailLodgepole-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cheyenne 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
Sunol6.8 miles11
Colton11.7 miles11
Sidney18.1 miles11
Huntsman18.5 miles11
Gurley21.4 miles11
Lorenzo23.9 miles8
Dalton25.2 miles11
Ordville (historical)25.4 miles8

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 LodgepoleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2145324The 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 830810. 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.