Shestak, Nebraska

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Big Blue precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68333. It stands on Otoe Creek. The Survey maps it on the Crete South quadrangle.

Shestak within Saline County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1897 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1955 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Crete South quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

42 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Shestak between 2007 and 2020, burning about 110 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 were 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	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Fireworks	5
Smoking	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Natural	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
8 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
6 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
27 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
5 August 2009	Smoking	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
4 July 2013	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
4 July 2013	Fireworks	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
4 July 2011	Fireworks	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
31 July 2010	Smoking	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saline County

Storms near this place

8 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shestak in 8 storm reports between 2014 and 2022: 4 flood, 3 flash flood, 1 hail. 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
May 2015	Flood	Shestak	$100,000,000	Extremely heavy rainfall of 5 to 10 inches fell along the Turkey Creek basin. This allowed for the creek to swell into moderate flood levels. Flooding along the Creek resulted in numerous rural road closures and significant low-land flooding. The combination of the Turkey Creek and Big Blue river led to nearly the entire town of De Witt to be flooded on the 7th of May resulting in a voluntary evacuation of the city. The creek at Wilber crested at 17.89 feet, or 5.39 feet above flood stage.
June 2015	Flood	Shestak	$100,000	Repeated heavy rainfall during the month of June brought Turkey Creek above flood stage with 3 main crests. This was the first, and most significant of the crests with the creek reaching 16.82 feet on the 5th of June, which is 4.52 feet above flood stage. Although the flooding near Wilbur was mainly confined to agricultural low-lands, more significant flooding was observed down stream near De Witt where there were road closures and some structural flooding.
May 2015	Flash Flood	Shestak	$20,000	Rainfall of 6 to 10 inches across the county lead to significant flash flooding. In addition to street flooding in the communities of Wilber, De Witt, and Western, State highways 103 and 41 were also closed due to water over the road. At least one water rescue was performed due to the flooding.
October 2014	Flood	Shestak	$5,000	Heavy rainfall at the end of September caused the Turkey Creek to go into flood. The river rose above flood stage in the early morning on the 1st, crested in the early afternoon on the 1st, and fell below flood stage in the morning of the 2nd. The river flooding was minor and mainly confined to low-lying areas along the river.
May 2014	Flood	Shestak	$5,000	Heavy rain caused flooding along the Big Blue River near Crete and most likely upstream through it's confluence with the West Fork of the Big Blue. The river level near Crete reached a little over 23 feet during this time, flood stage is 18 feet. The flooding impacted county roads and farmland near the river.
June 2022	Hail	Shestak	-	Public reported 1-inch hail.
June 2020	Flash Flood	Shestak	-	Emergency management reported water flowing across the highway.
June 2020	Flash Flood	Shestak	-	Emergency management reported ongoing flooding on the south bound lane of highway.

Every storm recorded in Saline 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Crete	4.1 miles	15
Wilber	6.0 miles	11
Pleasant Hill	6.4 miles	14
Berks	6.8 miles	15
Dorchester	9.6 miles	14
De Witt	12.2 miles	11
Swanton	14.5 miles	10
Western	17.3 miles	10

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 Shestak	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18378323	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 835446. 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.