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.
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
Herter Farmsteadlisted 2000- Herter Farmstead (Boundary Increase)listed 2004
Population over time
2 figuresWalton 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 306 | |
| 2020 | 351 | +45 (+15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 16 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.
- 1897 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Walton quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
35 since 2007Regional 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 burning | 24 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 August 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 26 August 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 4 July 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 11 July 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 27 June 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 9 May 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 29 May 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 2009Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walton | - | Personal weather station measured wind gust of 58 mph. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walton | - | Trained spotter reported a measured peak wind gust of 70 mph. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walton | - | Personal weather station measured a peak wind gust of 58 mph. |
| September 2019 | Hail | Walton | - | Quarter sized hail lasted for about 10 minutes near Holdrege Street and South 134th Street east of Lincoln. |
| September 2018 | Heavy Rain | Walton | - | An amateur radio operator reported 1.8 inches of rain in 30 minutes. |
| March 2009 | Hail | Walton | - | 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 2016 | Hail | Walton | - | no account filed |
| August 2016 | Hail | Walton | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bethany | 4.4 miles | 16 | |
| Pine Lake | 4.6 miles | 15 | |
| Prairie Home | 5.1 miles | 16 | |
| College View | 5.1 miles | 16 | |
| Havelock | 5.2 miles | 16 | |
| Cheney | 5.4 miles | 15 | |
| Lincoln | 5.6 miles | 16 | |
| University Place | 5.7 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 Walton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q9095520 | 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 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.





