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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.

Leshara within Saunders County

Population over time

2 figures

Leshara 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.

YearPeople Change
2010112
2020108-4 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

22 since 2001

Regional 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 burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Fireworks1

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
20 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use10 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
5 July 2008Fireworksunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
24 July 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
9 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
30 June 2001Debris and open burning15 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 May 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
16 May 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saunders County

Storms near this place

21 since 2001

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2010Thunderstorm WindLeshara1 hurtA 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 2001Thunderstorm WindLeshara$30,000Thunderstorm winds knocked over a large tree onto a cabin in the Woodcliff area south of Fremont.
February 2011FloodLeshara$2,000A 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 2026HailLeshara-Public report shared via photo on social media of many quarter sized or slightly larger stones. Time estimated from radar.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindLeshara-Personal weather station measured wind gust of 64 mph.
April 2025HailLeshara-Public reported estimated 1.5 hail.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindLeshara-A 72 miles per hour wind gust was measure don a personal weather station.
May 2024Tornado (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 2024Thunderstorm WindLeshara-A 66 miles per hour wind gust was measured by a personal weather station.
June 2022HailLeshara-Public reported 1.5 inch hail.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindLeshara-Personal weather station measured a peak wind gust of 63 mph.
March 2019FloodLeshara-Residents of the Woodcliffe Lakes community are being asked to evacuate.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindLeshara-Small twigs were blown off trees.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindLeshara-An estimated 50 to 60 mph wind gusts along with nickel size hail were reported approximately 5 miles northwest of Leshara.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindLeshara-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph knocked down large tree branches in the area.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindLeshara-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 2004HailLeshara-Golfball size hail was reported west of Leshara.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindLeshara-no account filed
June 2014HailLeshara-no account filed
March 2006HailLeshara-no account filed
April 2001HailLeshara-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
Woodcliff4.3 miles16
Yutan6.1 miles17
Mead7.7 miles17
Colon9.7 miles11
Cedar Bluffs10.8 miles12
Ithaca12.9 miles12
Wahoo13.0 miles12
Wann13.2 miles15

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 LesharaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2518510The 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.