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.
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
Lodgepole Opera Houselisted 1988
Population over time
2 figuresLodgepole 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 318 | |
| 2020 | 312 | -6 (-2%) |
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 Lodgepole quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Chappell quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2001Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 June 2007 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 9 April 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this place
55 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1994 | Hail | Lodgepole | $100,000 | Large hail damaged automobiles, roofs, and trees. |
| July 2010 | Flash Flood | Lodgepole | $50,000 | Lodgepole 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 2007 | Tornado (EF1) | Lodgepole | $10,000 | Short-lived tornado partially damaged a steel building. |
| June 1994 | Hail | Lodgepole | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Hail | Lodgepole | - | Trained spotter reports quarter size hailstones. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Lodgepole | - | 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 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lodgepole | - | UPR site SUNOL1 reported this peak wind gust. |
| July 2023 | Flash Flood | Lodgepole | - | Emergency manager reported flash flooding in Lodgepole. Second report from spotter in Sunol of flash flooding as well. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Lodgepole | - | Spotter reported stripped corn due to the hail. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lodgepole | - | An irrigation pivot was lifted and tossed by the thunderstorm winds into a nearby power pole. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lodgepole | - | A Snapchat video from a passing vehicle showed a tractor trailer that had been knocked over along Interstate 80. |
| July 2019 | Hail | Lodgepole | - | Hail and thunderstorm wind tore gutters off of observer's resident in additional to tree damage. |
| July 2019 | Flash Flood | Lodgepole | - | 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 2019 | Flash Flood | Lodgepole | - | 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 2017 | Hail | Lodgepole | - | Quarter size hail covered the ground north of Lodgepole. |
| August 2017 | Hail | Lodgepole | - | Quarter size hail was observed at Lodgepole. |
| July 2017 | Hail | Lodgepole | - | Quarter size hail was observed a mile east of Lodgepole. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lodgepole | - | Estimated 60 mph wind gusts were reported eight miles north of Lodgepole. |
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lodgepole | - | Estimated wind gusts of 75 mph were observed eight miles north of Lodgepole. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Lodgepole | - | Quarter size hail was reported at Lodgepole. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Lodgepole | - | Quarter size hail was reported. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Lodgepole | - | Walnut to silver dollar size hail was reported. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Lodgepole | - | Hail started out at dime size, then became bigger. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Lodgepole | - | Nickel to quarter size hail. |
| June 2005 | Flash Flood | Lodgepole | - | Flooding closed a county road linking Lodgepole to Interstate 80. |
| June 2005 | Flash Flood | Lodgepole | - | 4-5 inches of rainfall resulted in the closure of many county roads and washed out one bridge. Rush Creek overflowed its banks. |
| June 1999 | Hail | Lodgepole | - | 1 3/4 inch hail reported 4 miles northwest of Lodgepole, NE |
| May 1999 | Hail | Lodgepole | - | 3/4 inch hail accumulated to a depth of 3 inches and stripped trees along a 1/2 mile path. |
| June 1999 | Hail | Lodgepole | - | Golfball size hail reported 2 miles north of Lodgepole, NE |
| March 1998 | Hail | Lodgepole | - | Golf ball size hail fell 8 miles north of Lodgepole. |
| May 2021 | Hail | Lodgepole | - | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Hail | Lodgepole | - | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Hail | Lodgepole | - | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Hail | Lodgepole | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | Lodgepole | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Lodgepole | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Lodgepole | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Lodgepole | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Lodgepole | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Lodgepole | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Lodgepole | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Lodgepole | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Lodgepole | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Lodgepole | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Lodgepole | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Lodgepole | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Lodgepole | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Lodgepole | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Lodgepole | - | no account filed |
| April 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lodgepole | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Lodgepole | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Lodgepole | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Lodgepole | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Lodgepole | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Hail | Lodgepole | - | 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 Lodgepole | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2145324 | 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 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.




