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Stella, Nebraska

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1986. It stands in West Muddy precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68442. It stands on Hoosier Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dawson quadrangle. 145 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,047 feet above sea level.

Stella within Richardson County

On record in Stella

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Stella fell from 152 to 145 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
2010152
2020145-7 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Stella between 2002 and 2015, burning about 103 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 burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
26 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
31 July 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
13 March 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
3 February 2007Debris and open burning100 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
19 January 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
10 January 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Richardson County

Storms near this place

13 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stella in 13 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 8 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 heavy rain. 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 1997LightningStella$60,000Lightning struck a roof of a home and caused a fire.
April 2024HailStella-The office received a public report of golf ball sized hail.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindStella-One carport was lifted onto a house, another carport blown into the trees. One 20 inch diameter tree was snapped. Several trees uprooted.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindStella-Large tree branches and small hail was reported approximately 5 miles west of Stella.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindStella-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph downed many very large tree limbs blocking east-west travel on Highway 62 in Stella. The winds also ripped shingles off of some roofs and was accompanied by small hail. Grain bins and corn and bean fields suffered damage north of town.
July 2008Heavy RainStella-A spotter reported 2.8 inches of rain in Stella.
September 2015HailStella-no account filed
June 2009HailStella-no account filed
April 2006HailStella-no account filed
April 2006HailStella-no account filed
May 2006HailStella-no account filed
August 2004HailStella-no account filed
May 2002HailStella-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Richardson 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
Shubert4.8 miles11
Verdon6.7 miles11
Dawson7.7 miles11
Humboldt10.3 miles11
Barada10.4 miles12
Salem11.2 miles11
Straussville11.3 miles11
Williamsville (historical)12.8 miles12

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 StellaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3009382The 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 833809. 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.