Stockham, Nebraska
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Precinct 1. It lies in ZIP code area 68818. The Survey maps it on the Stockham quadrangle. 32 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,699 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresStockham fell from 44 to 32 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 | 44 | |
| 2020 | 32 | -12 (-27%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 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.
- 1898 USGS York quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1899 USGS York quadrangle1:125000
- 1955 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Stockham quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS York quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
10 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Stockham between 2007 and 2020, burning about 108 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 | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 20 June 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 15 April 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 12 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Rainwater Basin Wetland Management District | NELSON |
| 12 March 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 22 February 2009 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 15 February 2017 | Debris and open burning | 35 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this place
32 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stockham in 32 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 23 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 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 2022 | Hail | Stockham | $500,000 | Hail up to two inches in diameter was reported. Emergency management reported that corn fields in the area were destroyed by the wind-driven hail. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stockham | $150,000 | A newer large metal outbuilding with gravel floors suffered significant damage, losing much of its roof and at least one wall. There was also a pivot just to the south of that outbuilding has at least 3 towers blown over. |
| June 1997 | Hail | Stockham | $125,000 | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Hail | Stockham | $100,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stockham | $50,000 | no account filed |
| August 2020 | Tornado (EF0) | Stockham | $30,000 | Crop damage and scouring occurred. The tornado started in Hamilton County and continued into Clay County. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stockham | $25,000 | Wind gusts estimated to be near 60 MPH resulted in some tree limbs 3 to 4 inches in diameter being downed. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Stockham | $25,000 | Quarter to half dollar size hail was reported. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Stockham | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Stockham | $20,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Stockham | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Stockham | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Stockham | $5,000 | Significant crop damage in a 3 mile by 4 mile swath northeast of Stockham. |
| August 1996 | Hail | Stockham | $2,000 | no account filed |
| April 2023 | Hail | Stockham | - | Hail up to the size of tennis balls was reported in Stockham. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stockham | - | Wind gusts estimated to be near 70 MPH downed tree limbs up to 6 to 8 inches in diameter. |
| May 2017 | Heavy Rain | Stockham | - | A total of 3.30 inches of rain had fallen over the past 24 hours. |
| May 2014 | Heavy Rain | Stockham | - | The 24 hour rainfall total reported from Sunday through Monday morning was 4.25 inches. |
| June 2002 | Tornado (F0) | Stockham | - | A brief touch down along the flanking line of the thunderstorm as reported by an off duty NWS meteorologist. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Stockham | - | no account filed |
| August 2018 | Hail | Stockham | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Stockham | - | no account filed |
| September 2015 | Hail | Stockham | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Stockham | - | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Hail | Stockham | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Stockham | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Stockham | - | no account filed |
| November 2012 | Hail | Stockham | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Stockham | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Stockham | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Stockham | - | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stockham | - | 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.
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 Stockham | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2449476 | 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 833833. 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.






