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.
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
- Bridgelisted 1992
Population over time
2 figuresLorton 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 41 | |
| 2020 | 35 | -6 (-15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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.
- 1903 USGS Weeping Water quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1929 USGS Weeping Water quadrangle1:125000
- 1955 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Talmage quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
16 since 2002Regional 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 burning | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 4 April 2002 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 29 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.2 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 11 April 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 9 March 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 31 March 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 29 March 2013 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 29 March 2013 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
12 since 2005Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lorton | $10,000 | Thunderstorm 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 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lorton | - | Emergency manager reported an estimated wind gust of 60 mph. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lorton | - | Public reported 2 grain bins blown down and another severely damaged. Small grain weigh shed destroyed. |
| August 2019 | Funnel Cloud | Lorton | - | A funnel cloud was reported 4 miles north-northeast of Cook. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lorton | - | A trained storm spotter estimated 60 mph winds south of Lorton Village. |
| September 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lorton | - | 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 2011 | Hail | Lorton | - | Hail up to dime-size was accompanied by thunderstorm winds that were estimated at a little over 60 mph. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lorton | - | A spotter estimated thunderstorm wind gusts around 60 mph. |
| April 2005 | Hail | Lorton | - | 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 2012 | Hail | Lorton | - | no account filed |
| March 2012 | Hail | Lorton | - | no account filed |
| September 2010 | Hail | Lorton | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cio (historical) | 0.0 miles | 13 | |
| Delta (historical) | 0.0 miles | 13 | |
| Tangeman | 4.2 miles | 13 | |
| Talmage | 4.5 miles | 13 | |
| Dunbar | 5.0 miles | 13 | |
| Elberon | 5.7 miles | 11 | |
| Paul | 6.8 miles | 11 | |
| Syracuse | 9.6 miles | 13 |
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 Lorton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2611922 | 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 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.






