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La Vista, Nebraska

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1982. It stands in La Vista precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68128. It stands on La Vista Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ralston quadrangle. 16,543 people lived here at the 2025 count. It stands 1,109 feet above sea level.

La Vista within Sarpy County

On record in La Vista

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

La Vista grew from 15,758 to 16,746 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
201015,758
202016,746+988 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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

75 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of La Vista between 2011 and 2020, burning about 21 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Debris and open burning15
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Fireworks9
Smoking7
Recreation and ceremony6
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1

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
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2020Smokingunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
11 September 2012Smokingunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
28 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sarpy County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of La Vista: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Perlite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Zonolite Perlite PlantPerliteProducer

Every working recorded in Sarpy County

Storms near this place

22 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names La Vista in 22 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 10 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 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
March 2026HailLa Vista-Public report of hail measured at 1.00 inch in diameter received via an image on social media.
April 2024HailLa Vista-The office received a public report of quarter sized hail in La Vista.
May 2024Tornado (EF0)La Vista-This very brief tornado near Shadow Lake Elementary produced minor damage to homes and damaged numerous trees in the neighborhood. Some fences were also damaged. Peak winds in this tornado were estimated to be at 79 miles per hour. The maximum path width and average path width for this tornado were both 60 yards.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindLa Vista-Report of powerlines down and sparking.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindLa Vista-Trained spotter measured a peak wind gust of 53 knots.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindLa Vista-Trained spotter measured a peak wind gust of 53 knots.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindLa Vista-Personal weather station measured a peak wind gust of 66 mph.
September 2020Thunderstorm WindLa Vista-Public reported multiple tree limbs down, the largest of which measured 4 inches in diameter. The report was received via social media.
October 2020Thunderstorm WindLa Vista-Personal weather station measured a wind gust of 68 mph.
March 2007HailLa Vista-Hail up to half dollar size was reported in the Papillion area.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindLa Vista-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 65 mph knocked down several 8 to 12 inch tree limbs which blocked a street in La Vista.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindLa Vista-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph downed several power lines in La Vista.
August 2003HailLa Vista-Hail up to golfball size fell in the La Vista area.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindLa Vista-Thunderstorm wind gusts over 60 mph downed numerous trees and power lines in the La Vista and Papillion areas, knocking power out to 2500 customers.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindLa Vista-Thunderstorm wind gusts downed at least 7 large tree limbs in town.
April 2001HailLa Vista-See the narrative for Douglas county for the same time period.
October 2001HailLa Vista-A supercell thunderstorm, that produced hail up to golf ball size or a little larger, tracked across Sarpy county. Hail 1.25 inches in diameter was first reported in La Vista, with 1 to 1.75 inch hail then reported in the south part of Omaha, Papillion, Bellevue and in between Bellevue and Offutt Afb. The hail covered the ground at most locations in this area, lasted for 10 to 12 minutes and damaged cars and broke sky lights.
June 2000HailLa Vista-Near 84th and Brentwood.
June 2017HailLa Vista-no account filed
June 2017HailLa Vista-no account filed
May 2005HailLa Vista-no account filed
June 1998Funnel CloudLa Vista-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sarpy 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
Papillion2.1 miles18
Portal2.7 miles18
Rumsey3.2 miles15
Gilmore5.0 miles15
Gilmore Junction5.6 miles15
Capehart5.6 miles15
Richfield5.7 miles18
Fairview (historical)5.9 miles18

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 La VistaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q959456The 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 830573. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.