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Weston, Nebraska

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Chapman Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68070. It stands on Dunlap Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wahoo West quadrangle. 250 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,250 feet above sea level.

Weston within Saunders County

On record in Weston

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Weston fell from 324 to 250 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
2010324
2020250-74 (-23%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

14 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Weston between 2008 and 2019, burning about 8 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 burning8
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
16 July 2008Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
13 July 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
8 June 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
26 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
10 May 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
29 March 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
28 March 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saunders County

Storms near this place

29 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Weston in 29 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 16 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 1 tornado. 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
September 2025FloodWeston-Excessive rainfall across portions of eastern Nebraska triggered riverine flooding along the Wahoo Creek extending from September 1 into September 2, 2025. Initial impact was noted at 5:45 PM CST when a National Weather Service (NWS) employee reported water moving over Country Road J near Country Road 16. The river gauge at Wahoo Creek at Ithaca officially entered flood stage at 12:30 AM CST on September 2, 2025. The creek subsequently reached its crest of 19.55 feet, a level corresponding to minor flood stage, at 6:15 AM CST. By 9:00 AM CST on September 2, the gauge indicated that the Wahoo Creek had receded back below flood stage.
May 2024HailWeston-The office received a report of golfball sized hail from the public 2 miles northwest of Weston, Nebraska.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWeston-Public reported tree branches down and roof shingles torn off of a chicken house.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWeston-Public reported tree damage across Weston ranging from snapped branches to uprooted trees. Power poles were snapped and power lines were down.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWeston-Trained spotter reported an estimated 70 mph wind gust.
May 2019Heavy RainWeston-Weston, NE measured 2.05 inches.
June 2019Heavy RainWeston-Measured 2.97 inches of rain at Weston in the previous 24 hours.
June 2014HailWeston-The reports in this area ranged from baseball to tea cup size hail from both spotters and the emergency manager.
July 2013HailWeston-Hail was mostly dime, but a few stones were up to a quarter and a half dollar in size.
April 2010HailWeston-The public reported a few hailstones reached golfball-size.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindWeston-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph uprooted a tree and blew over a carport near Weston and caused scattered tree damage from there into the Wahoo area. Some of the trees or large limbs that fell in Wahoo caused some generally minor vehicle, home and other structural damage.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindWeston-The coop observer near Weston measured thunderstorm wind gusts of 59 mph with home weather equipment.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindWeston-The cooperative observer just northwest of Weston measured a thunderstorm wind gust of 61 mph with weather equipment. The thunderstorm was accompanied by pea-size hail and an inch of rain that fell in 1 hour.
June 2008HailWeston-Hail that was around nickel size lasted for about 10 minutes.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindWeston-The cooperative observer near Weston measured a thunderstorm wind gust of 73 mph.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindWeston-Thunderstorm winds were estimated at 70 mph by a amateur radio operator.|
April 2005HailWeston-Hail up to nickel size was reported in and just southwest of Weston.
April 2005HailWeston-Dime to nickel size hail was reported south to southwest of Weston.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindWeston-See narrative below.
May 2004HailWeston-Hail up to 1 inch in diameter fell in the Weston area.
June 2001Tornado (F0)Weston-This brief touchdown of a tornado was produced by the same supercell that spawned the tornado near Seward. This one touched down in open country near Weston and apparently caused no damage.
June 2008HailWeston-no account filed
June 2008HailWeston-no account filed
May 2007HailWeston-no account filed
June 2004HailWeston-no account filed
June 1999HailWeston-no account filed
June 1999HailWeston-no account filed
April 1998HailWeston-no account filed
September 1993HailWeston-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Saunders 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
Malmo5.1 miles11
Touhy6.0 miles11
Wahoo6.6 miles12
Swedeburg7.4 miles12
Prague8.7 miles11
Valparaiso9.1 miles12
Colon10.2 miles11
Ceresco10.8 miles11

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 WestonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3289798The 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 834651. 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.