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Lyman, Nebraska

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Kiowa precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69352. The Survey maps it on the Lyman quadrangle. 259 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,049 feet above sea level.

Lyman within Scotts Bluff County

Population over time

2 figures

Lyman fell from 341 to 259 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
2010341
2020259-82 (-24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

10 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Lyman between 2003 and 2020, burning about 562 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 burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
16 August 2020Debris and open burning10 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
30 June 2010Debris and open burning30 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
11 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
25 April 2007Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
24 March 2018Debris and open burning100 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
22 March 2020Debris and open burning300 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
12 March 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scotts Bluff County

Storms near this place

18 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lyman in 18 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 14 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2006Flash FloodLyman$50,000Very heavy rain fell over western Scotts Bluff county with rainfall amounts from 2 to 4 inches common...as high as 4.6 inches measured 6 miles south of Lyman, Neb. The rain producedsome flooding on the Stegall highway as well as washed out some county roads.
July 2023HailLyman-The public reported quarter sized hail in Lyman.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindLyman-Trained spotter estimated wind gusts of 50-60 mph.
June 2015HailLyman-Nickel to quarter size hail was observed at Lyman.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindLyman-The public reported a grain bin blown down as well as tree branches.
June 2011Flash FloodLyman-Roadways under water in Lyman. Highway 92 west of Morrill closed to flooding.
June 2006HailLyman-3/4 to 1 3/4 inch hail fell reported over much of western Scotts Bluff county, with the hardest hitarea around Lyman, Neb. About 800 acres of beets were damaged and about 400 acres of dry beans were reported lost.
June 2011HailLyman-no account filed
July 2011HailLyman-no account filed
July 2011HailLyman-no account filed
September 2006HailLyman-no account filed
June 2002HailLyman-no account filed
April 2001HailLyman-no account filed
May 2000HailLyman-no account filed
June 1996HailLyman-no account filed
July 1996HailLyman-no account filed
May 1996HailLyman-no account filed
June 1994HailLyman-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Scotts Bluff 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
Sears2.4 miles13
Joyce3.8 miles14
Caldwell (historical)4.0 miles14
Hartman4.0 miles14
Janise4.8 miles13
Henry5.6 miles13
Stegall5.8 miles14
South Morrill5.9 miles14

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 LymanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1917881The 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 830973. 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.