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.
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
- Kacirek-Woita General Storelisted 2014
Population over time
2 figuresWeston 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 324 | |
| 2020 | 250 | -74 (-23%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 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.
- 1899 USGS Wahoo quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Wahoo West quadrangle1:24000
- 1982 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
14 since 2008Regional 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 burning | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
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 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 16 July 2008 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 13 July 2016 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 8 June 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 26 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 10 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 29 March 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 28 March 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
29 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2025 | Flood | Weston | - | 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 2024 | Hail | Weston | - | The office received a report of golfball sized hail from the public 2 miles northwest of Weston, Nebraska. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weston | - | Public reported tree branches down and roof shingles torn off of a chicken house. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weston | - | Public reported tree damage across Weston ranging from snapped branches to uprooted trees. Power poles were snapped and power lines were down. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weston | - | Trained spotter reported an estimated 70 mph wind gust. |
| May 2019 | Heavy Rain | Weston | - | Weston, NE measured 2.05 inches. |
| June 2019 | Heavy Rain | Weston | - | Measured 2.97 inches of rain at Weston in the previous 24 hours. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Weston | - | The reports in this area ranged from baseball to tea cup size hail from both spotters and the emergency manager. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Weston | - | Hail was mostly dime, but a few stones were up to a quarter and a half dollar in size. |
| April 2010 | Hail | Weston | - | The public reported a few hailstones reached golfball-size. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weston | - | 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 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weston | - | The coop observer near Weston measured thunderstorm wind gusts of 59 mph with home weather equipment. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weston | - | 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 2008 | Hail | Weston | - | Hail that was around nickel size lasted for about 10 minutes. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weston | - | The cooperative observer near Weston measured a thunderstorm wind gust of 73 mph. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weston | - | Thunderstorm winds were estimated at 70 mph by a amateur radio operator.| |
| April 2005 | Hail | Weston | - | Hail up to nickel size was reported in and just southwest of Weston. |
| April 2005 | Hail | Weston | - | Dime to nickel size hail was reported south to southwest of Weston. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weston | - | See narrative below. |
| May 2004 | Hail | Weston | - | Hail up to 1 inch in diameter fell in the Weston area. |
| June 2001 | Tornado (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 2008 | Hail | Weston | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Weston | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Weston | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Weston | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Weston | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Weston | - | no account filed |
| April 1998 | Hail | Weston | - | no account filed |
| September 1993 | Hail | Weston | - | 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.
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 Weston | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3289798 | 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 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.





