Lyons, Nebraska
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Everett Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68038. The Survey maps it on the Lyons quadrangle. 824 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,293 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLyons fell from 851 to 824 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 | 851 | |
| 2020 | 824 | -27 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1955 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Lyons quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Blair 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 Lyons between 2001 and 2009, 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 June 2001 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 16 March 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this place
31 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lyons in 31 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 15 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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 2025 | Hail | Lyons | - | Trained spotter report of hail estimated at 1.25 inch in diameter. |
| May 2023 | Flash Flood | Lyons | - | NWS Employee reported water and debris over Highway 77. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lyons | - | Public reported a wind blown out of home. |
| June 2018 | Tornado (EF0) | Lyons | - | A small tornado occurred under a rapidly rotating wall cloud. There was damage to a small shed. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lyons | - | Several large trees. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lyons | - | Several large ash trees were downed by the strong winds. |
| August 2013 | Flash Flood | Lyons | - | Rainfall of 2 to 4 inches fell in a short time period in the Lyons area which caused some minor flash flooding of streets in town. The coop observer in town measured 3.83 inches of rain from this storm. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lyons | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at around 60 mph blew down 2 large trees in the Lyons city park. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lyons | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at around 60 mph downed tree limbs, a few trees and power lines in the Lyons area. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lyons | - | A spotter estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of around 60 mph. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Lyons | - | Penny to nickel-size hail was reported near Lyons. |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lyons | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts, which were estimated at close to 60 mph, downed a few large tree limbs in Lyons which downed a power line and broke a power pole. |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lyons | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 to 65 mph tore the parapet wall of funeral home off, blew a service station canopy down and knocked trees and large limbs down. |
| March 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lyons | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph blew down a barn and several trees near Lyons. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lyons | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts downed large tree branches in town. |
| June 1997 | Lightning | Lyons | - | Lightning struck a tree causing it to fall. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Lyons | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Hail | Lyons | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Lyons | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Lyons | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Lyons | - | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Hail | Lyons | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Lyons | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Lyons | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Lyons | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Lyons | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Lyons | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Funnel Cloud | Lyons | - | no account filed |
| April 1998 | Hail | Lyons | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lyons | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Lyons | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oakland | 7.0 miles | 8 | |
| Basford (historical) | 7.5 miles | 9 | |
| Bertha | 7.7 miles | 8 | |
| Essen | 10.7 miles | 8 | |
| Craig | 12.1 miles | 9 | |
| Decatur | 13.0 miles | 9 | |
| Argo (historical) | 14.9 miles | 8 | |
| Tekamah | 17.5 miles | 9 |
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 Lyons | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q963140 | 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 830977. 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.




