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Lorton, Nebraska

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in McWilliams precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68346. The Survey maps it on the Talmage quadrangle. 35 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,030 feet above sea level.

Lorton within Otoe County

On record in Lorton

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

Lorton fell from 41 to 35 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
201041
202035-6 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

16 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Lorton between 2002 and 2020, burning about 43 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 burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
14 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
4 April 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
11 April 2009Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
9 March 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
31 March 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
29 March 2013Debris and open burning5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
29 March 2013Debris and open burning3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Otoe County

Storms near this place

12 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lorton in 12 storm reports between 2005 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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
March 2011Thunderstorm WindLorton$10,000Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph ripped all of the vinyl siding off the side of a house southeast of Syracuse and two large sliding doors on a shed were blown off of their tracks. The winds were also accompanied by hail up to dime-size.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindLorton-Emergency manager reported an estimated wind gust of 60 mph.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindLorton-Public reported 2 grain bins blown down and another severely damaged. Small grain weigh shed destroyed.
August 2019Funnel CloudLorton-A funnel cloud was reported 4 miles north-northeast of Cook.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindLorton-A trained storm spotter estimated 60 mph winds south of Lorton Village.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindLorton-A storm survey revealed a swath of damage winds to the south of the tornado track, likely associated with the rear-flank downdraft of the slow-moving Otoe County supercell. The damage was confined to flattened corn and broken or snapped tree limbs.
March 2011HailLorton-Hail up to dime-size was accompanied by thunderstorm winds that were estimated at a little over 60 mph.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindLorton-A spotter estimated thunderstorm wind gusts around 60 mph.
April 2005HailLorton-Hail up to 1.5 inches in diameter caused some tree and vehicle damage in Lorton. The hail piled up a foot deep in spots and snowplows were used to clear some roads in the area.
March 2012HailLorton-no account filed
March 2012HailLorton-no account filed
September 2010HailLorton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Otoe 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
Cio (historical)0.0 miles13
Delta (historical)0.0 miles13
Tangeman4.2 miles13
Talmage4.5 miles13
Dunbar5.0 miles13
Elberon5.7 miles11
Paul6.8 miles11
Syracuse9.6 miles13

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 LortonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2611922The 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 830895. 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.