Leshara, Nebraska
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Leshara Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68064. It stands on Otoe Creek. The Survey maps it on the Leshara quadrangle. 108 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,168 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLeshara fell from 112 to 108 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 | 112 | |
| 2020 | 108 | -4 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 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.
- 1893 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:125000
- 1896 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Leshara quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
22 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Leshara between 2001 and 2020, burning about 49 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 | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 5 July 2008 | Fireworks | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 24 July 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 9 June 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 30 June 2001 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 6 May 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 6 May 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 16 May 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
21 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leshara in 21 storm reports between 2001 and 2026: 11 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leshara | 1 hurt | A thunderstorm wind gust estimated at around 60 mph caused a semi to hit a guardrail and tip into the ditch slightly injuring the driver. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leshara | $30,000 | Thunderstorm winds knocked over a large tree onto a cabin in the Woodcliff area south of Fremont. |
| February 2011 | Flood | Leshara | $2,000 | A mile long ice jam near the Woodcliff Lake subdivision south of Fremont caused flooding to at least 3 homes in the area and prompted dirt barriers to be erected along the edges of the lake. However, any flood damage to the homes was apparently minimal, and the flooding only lasted for about 24 hours before enough of it broke free causing the water levels to fall. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Leshara | - | Public report shared via photo on social media of many quarter sized or slightly larger stones. Time estimated from radar. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leshara | - | Personal weather station measured wind gust of 64 mph. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Leshara | - | Public reported estimated 1.5 hail. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leshara | - | A 72 miles per hour wind gust was measure don a personal weather station. |
| May 2024 | Tornado (EF0) | Leshara | - | This was a very brief spin-up that caused tree damage near the Woodcliff Lake community. The peak estimated winds were 75 miles per hour. The maximum path width was measured at 20 yards, with an average of 20 yards as well. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leshara | - | A 66 miles per hour wind gust was measured by a personal weather station. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Leshara | - | Public reported 1.5 inch hail. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leshara | - | Personal weather station measured a peak wind gust of 63 mph. |
| March 2019 | Flood | Leshara | - | Residents of the Woodcliffe Lakes community are being asked to evacuate. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leshara | - | Small twigs were blown off trees. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leshara | - | An estimated 50 to 60 mph wind gusts along with nickel size hail were reported approximately 5 miles northwest of Leshara. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leshara | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph knocked down large tree branches in the area. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leshara | - | An amatuer radio operator estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of 75 mph just south of Leshara and law enforcement reported that 7 or 8 large trees were downed west of town due to the winds. |
| August 2004 | Hail | Leshara | - | Golfball size hail was reported west of Leshara. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leshara | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Leshara | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Leshara | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Leshara | - | 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 Leshara | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2518510 | 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 830681. 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.






