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Walton, Nebraska

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Stevens Creek precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68520. The Survey maps it on the Walton quadrangle. 351 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,214 feet above sea level.

Walton within Lancaster County

On record in Walton

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Walton grew from 306 to 351 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
2010306
2020351+45 (+15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 16 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

35 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Walton between 2007 and 2020, burning about 42 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 burning24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Fireworks2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
10 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
26 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
4 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
11 July 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
27 June 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
9 May 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
29 May 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lancaster County

Storms near this place

8 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Walton in 8 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
July 2025Thunderstorm WindWalton-Personal weather station measured wind gust of 58 mph.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWalton-Trained spotter reported a measured peak wind gust of 70 mph.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWalton-Personal weather station measured a peak wind gust of 58 mph.
September 2019HailWalton-Quarter sized hail lasted for about 10 minutes near Holdrege Street and South 134th Street east of Lincoln.
September 2018Heavy RainWalton-An amateur radio operator reported 1.8 inches of rain in 30 minutes.
March 2009HailWalton-Hail up to 1 inch in diameter was reported just south and just east of Lincoln. The hail fell from the supercell thunderstorm that produced several tornadoes southeast through east of town.
May 2016HailWalton-no account filed
August 2016HailWalton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lancaster 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
Bethany4.4 miles16
Pine Lake4.6 miles15
Prairie Home5.1 miles16
College View5.1 miles16
Havelock5.2 miles16
Cheney5.4 miles15
Lincoln5.6 miles16
University Place5.7 miles16

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 WaltonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q9095520The 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 834466. 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.