Lushton, Nebraska
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Henderson precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68371. The Survey maps it on the Grafton quadrangle. 28 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,677 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLushton fell from 30 to 28 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 | 30 | |
| 2020 | 28 | -2 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 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.
- 1898 USGS York quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1899 USGS York quadrangle1:125000
- 1955 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Grafton quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS York quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Lushton in 2010, burning about 1 acre 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 October 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lushton in 9 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 3 tornado, 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2022 | Tornado (EF2) | Lushton | 2 hurt, $1,200,000 | Amongst the widespread damage from wind and hail, it was determined an EF2 tornado occurred. The tornado formed about two miles west-southwest of Lushton and immediately damaged three farmsteads. Damage included, but was not limited to the following: a garage being torn from a home; several outbuildings destroyed; extensive tree damage; irrigation pivots overturned; grain bins destroyed. Signs of leaf and mud splatter, lofted debris, and a multi-directional/convergent damage pattern was noted. Two minor injuries occurred. ||The tornado wind field may have been as wide as 400 yards at times. The tornado climbed out of the Big Blue River Valley and moved northeast toward the northwest side of Lushton. A farmstead just northwest of town was damaged, including a completely destroyed wood frame outbuilding, uprooted trees and some structural damage to the home. The structural damage was most likely caused by a large portion of the outbuilding hitting the home. In Lushton, there was widespread tree damage. A very large grain bin was destroyed, along with a smaller one.||The rating of EF2 and maximum wind speed estimate of 115 MPH was given based on power poles snapped north-northeast of Lushton. The tornado continued east-northeast and upset more pivots, destroyed grain bins, snapped power poles and caused tree damage. The tornado lifted about two miles west of McCool Junction. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lushton | $250,000 | A wind gust of 90 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located two miles east-northeast of Lushton. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Lushton | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lushton | - | A wind gust of 65 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located two miles east-northeast of Lushton. |
| April 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Lushton | - | A brief tornado was reported by local law enforcement near Lushton in southwest York County. No damage was reported. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Lushton | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Lushton | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Funnel Cloud | Lushton | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Lushton | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Henderson | 6.0 miles | 15 | |
| Charlestown (historical) | 6.6 miles | 15 | |
| McCool Junction | 6.9 miles | 15 | |
| Knox | 9.4 miles | 15 | |
| Bradshaw | 11.0 miles | 15 | |
| York | 12.1 miles | 15 | |
| Mapps | 16.4 miles | 16 | |
| Houston | 16.4 miles | 16 |
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 Lushton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3288860 | 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 830954. 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.






