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Staplehurst, Nebraska

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Precinct C. It lies in ZIP code area 68439. The Survey maps it on the Staplehurst quadrangle. 236 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,486 feet above sea level.

Staplehurst within Seward County

On record in Staplehurst

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

Staplehurst fell from 242 to 236 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
2010242
2020236-6 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Staplehurst between 2003 and 2016, burning about 4 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
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
15 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
29 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
22 October 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Seward County

Storms near this place

28 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Staplehurst in 28 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 15 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 2 flash flood. 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
June 2010Flash FloodStaplehurst$5,000Heavy rain flooded farm fields and some county roads near Lincoln Creek and Branch Oak Road. Wild Cat Creek near 462nd St. and Davey Road north of Utica also flooded. The water eventually caused Lincoln Creek to flood later in the day.
September 2025Thunderstorm WindStaplehurst-Trained spotter report of an uprooted tree. Time estimated from radar.
September 2025HailStaplehurst-Public report of hail estimated at 1 inch in diameter.
September 2025HailStaplehurst-Delayed public report of hail measured at 1 inch in diameter. Time estimated via radar.
April 2022Funnel CloudStaplehurst-Public reported a funnel cloud near Staplehurst.
March 2020HailStaplehurst-Public reported 1 inch hail.
March 2020HailStaplehurst-Public reported 1 inch hail south of Staplehurst.
May 2019Heavy RainStaplehurst-Measured 2.34 inches northwest of Staplehurst.
March 2019FloodStaplehurst-This is for flooding along the Big Blue River. The river gage at Seward, operated by the Nebraska DNR, peaked at 22.98 feet at 6 pm on March 14th. Minor flood stage is 18 feet, moderate flood stage is 22 feet while major flood stage is 27 feet. Gage data is preliminary. The Big Blue River flooded Highway 34 near Seward.
May 2016FloodStaplehurst-Widespread lowland flooding was observed along the creek upstream of the city of Seward with a crest of 17.12 feet. This creek did flood several country gravel roads.
May 2015FloodStaplehurst-Heavy rainfall of 3 to 6 inches on the evening of May 6th into the early morning of the 7th led to the Lincoln Creek to rise to just above flood stage near Seward. this resulted in low-land flooding along the river. The creek crested at 15.05 feet, or .05 feet above flood stage.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindStaplehurst-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph caused scattered tree damage in the Staplehurst area. The fallen trees damaged at least one vehicle in town.
March 2009HailStaplehurst-Hail up to Softball size was reported in the Staplehurst area.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindStaplehurst-Law Enforcement estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 mph in the Staplehurst area.
June 2008Tornado (EF1)Staplehurst-This tornado started about 4 miles southwest of Ulysses in Seward county, crossed into Butler county about 1.5 miles south of Ulysses and then lifted around 1 mile east southeast of town. The tornado flipped irrigation center pivots along its path and caused tree and farm outbuilding damage. It was rated an EF1 in both Seward and Butler counties. The total path length in both counties was a little over 5 miles.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindStaplehurst-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 70 mph.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindStaplehurst-Trees were damaged by thunderstorm wind gusts in the Staplehurst area.
May 1998Flash FloodStaplehurst-Basements half full.
July 2014HailStaplehurst-no account filed
June 2008HailStaplehurst-no account filed
June 2008HailStaplehurst-no account filed
September 2006HailStaplehurst-no account filed
April 2005HailStaplehurst-no account filed
May 1998HailStaplehurst-no account filed
June 1998HailStaplehurst-no account filed
May 1998HailStaplehurst-no account filed
October 1998HailStaplehurst-no account filed
May 1995HailStaplehurst-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Seward 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
Marysville (historical)2.0 miles14
Seward6.1 miles14
Tamora6.3 miles14
Bee6.5 miles11
Garland10.1 miles15
Goehner10.2 miles15
Utica10.7 miles14
Ruby11.1 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 StaplehurstAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2323038The 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 833771. 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.