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.
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
R.A. Clark Houselisted 2015
Way Side Stock Farmlisted 2015
Population over time
2 figuresStella 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 152 | |
| 2020 | 145 | -7 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 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.
- 1916 USGS Humboldt quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Dawson quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Falls City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
6 since 2002Regional 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 burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 31 July 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 13 March 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 3 February 2007 | Debris and open burning | 100 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 19 January 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 10 January 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
13 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1997 | Lightning | Stella | $60,000 | Lightning struck a roof of a home and caused a fire. |
| April 2024 | Hail | Stella | - | The office received a public report of golf ball sized hail. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stella | - | One carport was lifted onto a house, another carport blown into the trees. One 20 inch diameter tree was snapped. Several trees uprooted. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stella | - | Large tree branches and small hail was reported approximately 5 miles west of Stella. |
| September 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stella | - | 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 2008 | Heavy Rain | Stella | - | A spotter reported 2.8 inches of rain in Stella. |
| September 2015 | Hail | Stella | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Stella | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Stella | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Stella | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Stella | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Stella | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Stella | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shubert | 4.8 miles | 11 | |
| Verdon | 6.7 miles | 11 | |
| Dawson | 7.7 miles | 11 | |
| Humboldt | 10.3 miles | 11 | |
| Barada | 10.4 miles | 12 | |
| Salem | 11.2 miles | 11 | |
| Straussville | 11.3 miles | 11 | |
| Williamsville (historical) | 12.8 miles | 12 |
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 Stella | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3009382 | 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 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.





